Harry’s Café Bar

Been here in ireland for 7 nights and we (my partner & i) are sooooo glad to finally find a place that serves a decent cuppa coffee and greaattt breakfast! We are so sick of the overly salty irish bacon, puddings and badly done burgers we have been having in other restaurants. Wish the café opened earlier in the mornings though. Nevertheless thumbsup for awesome breakfast and coffee !!

I have had really good lunches and breakfasts in the past decade in this place, and it has been mostly consistent, which is a good thing, BUT the décor is looking a little tired these days — it just needs a spruce up!

I always like to visit them! Their food is always great, and staff aways friendly!
Their menu was recently updated; the older menu is still available though.

From Dun Laoghaire and have never been in Harry’s Café! Woke up early to meet a friend one Sunday morning and went for breakfast there. I opted for the eggs avocado and bacon and it was delicious! The eggs were poached and all gooey and great. Coffee wasn’t bad either.

Terrible service, terrible food. Left feeling ripped off. Ordered an americano and was given instant.
Breakfast was plonked in front of me and no salt pepper/​condiments. Wasn’t even cooked properly. No butter for toast.
Avoid.

Harry’s café bar has it’s own unique atmosphere. Informal and casual and always with great tunes playing quietly in the background.
A great location for some quiet time but also very child and family friendly.
The management and staff make it their business to get to know you. Soon you’ll be greeted by name and asking if you’re having the usual.
Now to the important matter the food. I’m eating there long enough with my family to have tried everything on the menu. You can see your food being cooked over the pass, ingredients are always fresh and everything is cooked to order on site. I highly recommend (at the moment) the tuna ciabatta, the eggs Benedict, the retro egg salad sandwich, the Thai chicken soup, the seafood chowder, the pulled pork sandwich, the potatoe rosti, the chicken wings, the poached eggs and bacon with smashed avocado open sandwich. But not all at the same time.
Located in scenic dun laoghaire near the prom, the pier and the peoples park, you’re never too far from somewhere to walk off the feed.
Coffee is hands down the best in dun laoghaire, I’m a latte man but my wife drinks the cappucino. All tastes and dietary requirements catered for.
Harry’s rocks. Simple as that and the prices are very reasonable. Great variety and good value.

Came here with a group if friends having passed by it for years, it from the outside looking a bit out of date. I was pleasantly surprised.
Inside, though the art work was questionable, it had a really nice buzzing atmosphere and a much nicer than expected décor; lovely stone walls and leather booths. It was busy but we were seated quickly.
I had eggs Benedict and an orange juice. It was past three on a Sunday and they were still serving brunch which was great. There was a bit of a wait but it was worth it; the portion generous and very tasty (though the eggs were slightly overcooked) and the orange juice (at a pricey 3.95) was really really good. A few of my friends’ coffees took quite a while but they were extremely busy so I could understand.
Overall I think I’d definitely come back, for the expensive orange juice at least!

Harry’s is a great little spot in Dun Laoghaire. I usually stop in to catch up with friends while doing errands on the weekend. The place is tiny, and it’s always really busy, but its worth waiting for a seat. They have excellent raspberry scones. I’ve also had the beef nachos and the croissant with emmantel and bacon which was very tasty. The staff is always really pleasant, even though they are so busy.

In my quest for the best lunch venue in Dun Laoghaire I found Harry’s Café Bar thanks to Unilocal and a blind wander down Georges Street.
First thing that struck me when I walked in, was the nice atmosphere. The place was quite full and there was a pleasant hum of chatter in the background. After finding a seat, I couldn’t help but notice that I was struggling to find something to eat for lunch, even though there was quite a substantial menu. I then started scanning what everybody else was eating and noticed that people had large sandwiches and big bowls of soup which weren’t listed in the menu! How did these people get these?! Did they bring their sandwiches in with them?! Brought the soup in in their pockets?! I asked the waitress if they did sandwiches. She said yes and attempted to show me where they were in the menu to which it turned out that my menu was missing a page. A fairly critical page at lunch time. The «Lunch Menu» page. I suppose I should be embarrassed that I didn’t manage to figure this out myself. I blame the hunger.
I ordered the soup of the day and a sandwich (BLT) which was a lunch special. € 8.50. Not bad. (€ 8.50 seems to be a magic number in Dun Laoghaire, a lot of lunch orders seem to come to € 8.50). The soup and sambo came down and I was instantly impressed. A large treble-​decker BLT and a big bowl of thick tomato soup. Both were excellent. There was a really pretty blonde girl sitting opposite me with her friends and I think the sheer sight of her gave me a good impression of Harry’s Café. That coupled with the good food makes Harry’s Café bar one of my favorite venues for lunch in Dun Laoghaire.

Went here for lunch today after landing in Dublin this morning… was looking for something close to my hotel and local with a decent variety… and Harry’s fit the bill! The atmosphere is casual and welcoming. The service was good. I ordered the goat cheese tortilla without the peppers — it was good and filling — very fresh and a nice mixture of flavors… obviously a step up from the transatlantic plane food I had! My travel mate had the tuna on cibatta and really enjoyed it. It was a nice welcome to Dun Laoghaire after a long day of traveling!

Visited here with my wife and daughter on 12÷22÷12. We were staying nearby at the Royal Marine Hotel and tired of the breakfast buffet. I have to say that it is hard for a coffee shop/​café to separate itself from the crowded competition in the immediate area. There are half a dozen places within a few blocks where you can find a similar experience. We give them 4 stars for their coffees, 3 stars for the food and 2 stars for service that was just a little unfriendly.

Harry’s Café Bar is located in Dun Laoghaire and it’s a small place with about about ten tables: even if it leans out on the road, there is no noise arriving from outside. Modern-​classical style, so much wood, a dwarfish counter with so much of blackboard on which everyday you can find the menu are the most important element of this place. You can fin tourists but most of the visitors are locals.
The menù for the lunch is very Irish with so much of irish breakfast and a series of sandwiches and soups to stay on the light one. The menu for the evening becomes fusion and the the tastes of sea prevails and are enriched indeed by oriental and spicy sauces and by interesting combinings. The blandest of the hamburgers is prepared to the moment with fresh ingredients and particular spice for which some that you won’t eat something of peer and standard, eaten already elsewhere.
Scones, muffin and cakes are made in the house for which their various availability and it is always not possible to find that that is looked for.
A full lunch coast less than 10 euros, for a dinner we are at the most around the 20 euros.

Nice place for Brunch on my infrequent visits to Dun Laoghaire. The coffee is generally good and the staff are very nice.

I sort of have a love/​hate relationship with this place. Maybe it would get better if I stopped going during the big rushes, meaning early brekkies and lunch time.
The food is AMAZING! Really good and the portions are great, neither too big or small. which is nice.
I guess my issue is the service… more importantly servers. While the guy I assume is Harry, is fantabulously brilliant the other servers are… lacking.
First there is the guy today who talked about his vacation to Poland, where he drank so much vodka (which is apparently miles better than the stuff here in Ireland) he was sure it was 24 hrs straight, while I patiently waited for my menu. Now, I am proud of him. I would have died from alcohol poisoning if I drank vodka for 24 straight hrs. However, I am not really sure the doorway of your place of employment is really the place to have said conversation, because I was far less offended when he retold the story to a table full of regulars. Seriously, I was. No clue that was about, but moving on.
Second there is the too cute for words little boy (in all honesty he is probably in his early 20’s, I am just old) who always looks like God pooped in his cornflakes. Every time I see him I want to ask him if it is really so hard to look as if he completely hates his life. I mean even a look of total boredom would be better than the «I may have to go to my room and listen to Morrisey after this because misery loves company» look he ALWAYS has.
However, since the food is good, the coffee decent and the proximity to my gaff is ideal I will continue to frequent this place and endure angsty little boys and oversharing on the drunken front.

I have the pleasure of having lunch there once in a while when I’m in the area.
It’s always very tasty, the staff is extremely pleasant and will always accomodate your requests if you stray a bit from the menu.
Everything I’ve ever ordered there has been perfectly good and cheap.

Went with a friend I erroneously thought everything was on the early bird menu. It isnt. That menu is quite limited. The food was good but the two waiters were over familiar and they had to be reminded twice about things we ordered. Not bad for Dun laoghaire.

I was seriously hoping for good things from Harry’s when I arrived with my two sisters to get a nice cup of hot chocolate on a rainy day. I have been looking for a place to match the high standard of my most favourite café which has recently closed down — The World Café. However, Harry’s simply just does not match up. Not only did I have to wait a very long time for just a hot drink, it was very dark and very stuffy inside. Although I have not had a full meal at Harry’s, I don’t plan to. If it took that long to make me a hot drink, I can only guess how long it would take for a full meal to arrive at my table. An hour perhaps?

I took my 3 housemates out to dinner in Harrys Café last night, I have only previously been there for breakfast, and after a chat with the owner thought I would come in and try the evening menu. They do a very good deal Tue-​Sat evening for two, if you buy 2 starters you get one of your mains free.
The atmosphere is very comfortable, a real local, relaxed and familiar air about the location. We ordered the nachos, chicken wings and fish cakes for starters. The nachos were the first to arrive and looked as divine as they tasted. My chicken wings were good, a nice spicy sauce covered them and an ample side of blue cheese dip. I also got a bowl of water and extra napkins without asking (which is always a nice touch, wings are messy you know!).
For the mains 3 of us were too tempted by the char-​grilled homemade beef burger with emmental and jalapeño relish, the other had the chicken. The burger was hearty and tasted gorgeous. The chips were skinny but plentiful. I had a glass of South African White to wash it all down and we were provided with plenty of water, again which we didn’t need to ask for. Needless to say the service was pleasant, unfussy and prompt.
The quality of the food is only met by the price, 4 starters, 4 mains (we got two free as per the deal) and a glass of wine came to e60. You can’t go wrong with that value. Needless to say I’ll be returning to Harrys for more…

A very good place for breakfast but no omelets on the menu and to get one you have to give up your first born son. It can be busy weekend mornings so go early.
It would never stop me from going there but the clever décor is getting a bit frayed around the edges.

OOOOHHH I remember this place! Back in the old days when I worked in DunLaoghaire, I used to come here for breakfast, I can remember thinking this is sooooo bad, the eggs are greasy the sausages are fatty but to be honest it all tasted fantastic, really, it was the perfect start to what was regularly am imperfect day. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say this place made DunLaoghaire bearable!

Früh am Morgen schlenderte ich durch den Küstenort Dun Laoghaire (sprich Delaerry) in der Nähe von Dublin. In der Haupteinkaufsstraße entdeckte ich dieses kleine einladende Café.
Obwohl unter der Woche, war dieses Café gut besucht. Einheimische jeden Alters hatten schon an vielen Tischen Platz genommen und verspeisten verschiedene Versionen des Irischen Frühstückes. An der Theke warteten leckere Torten.
Ich wählte einen Cappuccino und machte es mir gemütlich.
Harry’s Café ist ein Platz zum entspannen, beobachten und Treffpunkt. Mintgrüné Wände, Holzstühle und Kleinigkeiten sorgen für eine individuelle Atmosphäre. Ingesamt gibt es ungefähr 50 Sitzplätze.