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A grated raw potato and mashed potato pancake folded around a savoury filling, the Cavan-Roscommon dish that became Dublin's tourist-trade signature. The crisp outside and soft inside are the working test.
Boxty originated in the Irish midlands in the 1800s as a way to extend the potato through famine winters; the dish was a hybrid of grated raw potato, mashed potato and flour cooked on a griddle. The Dublin signature came in 1989 when Pádraic Óg Gallagher opened Gallagher's Boxty House in Temple Bar, formalising the savoury filled boxty as a restaurant plate. Today every Temple Bar tourist room serves a version; the canonical fillings are beef and Guinness, smoked salmon, or chicken with mushroom cream. The Irish proverb says 'boxty on the griddle, boxty on the pan, if you can't make boxty, you'll never get a man.'
3 editor picks for Boxty pancake in Dublin, ranked by editorial score. All Dublin signature dishes · Boxty pancake across every city.
Spitalfields on The Coombe in Dublin's Liberties, a Michelin Bib Gourmand pub-set kitchen serving the city's most considered classical Irish menu.
OrderThe seasonal stew with soda bread, and the coddle when it lands on the daily card.
TipTuesday to Saturday dinner only, 17:00-21:00. Walk through the public bar and ask for the back dining room.
The Brazen Head on Bridge Street Lower in Dublin 8, established 1198 as Ireland's oldest pub, the present 1754 coaching inn serves Irish stew and trad.
TipFood served until 21:00 daily; nightly trad music sessions from 21:00. The back snug holds eight; the courtyard runs summer only.
Gallagher's Boxty House on Temple Bar in Dublin, Pádraic Óg Gallagher's three-room canon of boxty, coddle and smoked salmon, the boxty reference in town.
OrderThe boxty pancake stuffed with beef and Guinness, with a half pint of stout.
TipThe middle dining room is the calm one; the front bar fills with traffic from Temple Bar Square after 19:00.
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