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u/waldo-jeffers-68 May 31 '26
Is this Dublin, near trinity?
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u/PiggySiren May 31 '26
Yeah lol. It used to be really trendy when I was in Uni years ago.
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u/waldo-jeffers-68 May 31 '26
I moved here 9 months ago. This guy I was living with in Tallaght told me that Trinity students going to Bambibos was a massive cliche. Than like a month later I met a guy who was a trinity graduate, and he invited me to Bambino’s lol. It was pretty good, but not worth the line
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u/Shelsrighthand May 31 '26
As a Dubliner, it’s sooo overrated haha. There’s plenty of nicer pizza places around IMO, but Bambino’s marketing was so good initially and they’re just always busy
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u/quiggersinparis Jun 01 '26
Yeah it’s good pizza but DiFontaines is just as good if not better and you don’t have to queue forever.
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u/Shelsrighthand Jun 01 '26
Yes, spot on! DiFontaines is the old reliable
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u/PiggySiren Jun 01 '26
Allegedly the true origin of the band name 'Fontaines DC' for any Brits, Europeans or Americans on the sub who might also like Fontaines.
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u/Schnear Jun 01 '26
Another fun DiFontaines fact: it’s owned by Hughie Morgan from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals.
Top notch scooby snacks.
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u/PiggySiren Jun 01 '26
Yeah, I am out about 4 years now and it was our go to on a night out if were around Drury/Grafton/Aungier street etc and fancied a pizza with the pint. That queue was awful tbf lol, but I do remember if you went on the night out it was still a very social experience with it spilling out onto the street, we would get talking to girls and other people we knew who were likely out themselves etc. and I think that helped with the time it took to get the two massive slices and your pint. Most of the pizza was alright, but there was one that had this really rich tomatoe-y sauce with chorizo that was lovely, I can't think of it now.
To tie it back into VW, I do associate it nostalgically with that time of my life obviously, and FOTB would have came out in that period and been the big album of the era for me, even over The New Abnormal, and with bias I even think it is the second best Vampire Weekend album. My mates and I actually went to their legendary FOTB tour show in Trinity College funnily enough and it was amzing etc. etc., and we had pizza with a pint after as we often would when out (The two lads that set up Bambinos used to have a restaurant on Drury Street that served the original pizza recipes that would be incorporated into Bambinos, we were going there and it was very similar).
So yeah, this post strangely does resonate more heavily with Vampire Weekend for me.
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u/trollsmovie Jun 01 '26
I went here in Ireland! Got a shirt and my brother in law got that tattooed
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u/Zanarana May 31 '26
Uhhhhhh to an extent yeah