Damien Grey's two-Michelin-star fourteen-seat counter inside Blackrock Market, Co Dublin, fifteen minutes by DART from the city, Ireland's hardest reservation.
Order: The tasting menu only; Grey serves no choice and the kitchen runs a fixed twelve courses.
Tip: Reservations open three months ahead and disappear in minutes. Take the DART to Blackrock and walk five minutes to the market.
Dún Laoghaire People's Park Market on Sundays at the seafront in Dún Laoghaire, fifty stalls of Irish street food and producers, the south-coast Sunday morning ritual.
Tip: Take the DART to Dún Laoghaire; ten-minute walk south. Combine with the East Pier walk and a 99 cone at Teddy's.
Dublin Cookery School in Blackrock, Co Dublin, Lynda Booth's seasonal European school running short evening classes to twelve-week professional courses since 2008.
Tip: Evening classes from EUR 95; the half-day baking class is the entry point. Take the DART to Blackrock.
Dún Laoghaire on the south coast holds the Sunday People's Park Market with fifty stalls, the East and West Piers for coastal walks, and Teddy's 1950 ice cream parlour.
Tip: DART to Dún Laoghaire, fifteen-minute walk south to People's Park. The Sunday market runs 10:00 to 16:00 year-round.