The Buttery

Homecooked and fresh meals daily. Very handy for students and visitors alike. The food is nice and priced fairly if not extremely cheap. The coffee bar is grand too.

The buttery is just fine and dandy. Once your expectations arent too high you will be happy out. For students they do a great deals for usually around a fiver and youll be pretty much set up for the day. They have loads of places to sit so plenty of space for bags and books. Open to everyone they ahve a sandwich bar too. I got a ham and cheese sandwich and it was teeny and cost 3.50 which i thought was abit steep for a student… and it was TEENY. The tea isnt great but the coffees are delicious. I’ll defo be back in the buttery… its a nice little spot to eat and fills a gap :)

I decided to visit The Buttery today after experiencing a large «rumbly-​in-​my-​tumbly» around noon in the Trinity library. Not wanting to disturb my fellow students with another seismic event, and being too lazy to walk to the many lunch spots off campus, I looked in my wallet, exclaimed «Oooh, I’ve got a fiver,» and went to The Buttery.
Fiver in hand, I approached the menu board and decided that Sausages, Beans, and Chips sounded pretty darn good for € 4.50. The good thing about The Buttery is that it is reliable. The sandwich bar is always busy, the fish is always inedible, and the Sausage, Beans, and Chips are always good. The woman behind the food filled my plate with two sausages, a few ladles of beans, and a hefty portion of chips. Today they had a special of one free fairtrade chocolate bar with every main course. Score.
The food was… cafeteria food. As usual. When you walk into The Buttery, you know you’re not getting a gourmet lunch, but it was satisfying, fairly tasty, and better quality than most fast food lunches I’ve had recently. On top of that, I know that I won’t be hungry for the rest of the day.
I would give The Buttery two stars except that I’ve had breakfast there. I’m a bit of a breakfast junkie and, I’ll admit it, I have, on occasion, come to campus early just so I can have a Buttery Breakfast. The hash browns are the best — crisp and bad-​for-​you goodness. It’s a guilty pleasure.
On the downside, I never know what time The Buttery closes. I don’t think The Buttery knows what time The Buttery closes. That can be a big disappointment when you’re hungry and don’t have time to run off campus.
On a side note, The Buttery is open to all — visitors, students, and staff.
Recommended for a quick lunch that will do the trick, just don’t expect a bistro.

Pricey for outsiders and closed by the time the evening students roll in, The Buttery does a great job of keeping anyone but daytime students and staff away. The food is standard to anonymous campus fare: full plates and bland tastes… but students come anyway.
The setting is bright and efficient –bold colours and cafeteria-​cold furnishings (except for that second dining room under arched columns… woah), and the loud clanks coming from the open kitchen make conversation difficult to keep up.
There’s plenty of places off campus for visitors to grab a bite before heading onto campus, but if you’re bound and determined to dine in TCD-​stop at O’Brien’s on your way over for a few sandwiches to go and find yourself a nice on-​campus bench. Cheaper, quieter and better ambience.

I never knew The Buttery to be a bar and so can only judge it based on the eatery it now professes to be. Located within Trinity College Dublin’s historic campus this is really the only adequate eatery the students have — a proper restaurant and deli sandwich bar that serves everything from a buffet of hot and cold meals (e.g. Thai Chicken Curry and Rice for € 5.00) to baguettes, baps and Panini’s made to order (approx € 4.50), self-​service tea (€ 1.15) and Java City Barista coffee (€ 1.25) alongside an extensive selection of soft drinks and smoothies. Here, you can buy a substantial lunch and nearly always pick up something you find appetizing and then be able to choose where to sit amongst the extensive choice of big and small tables as well as high stools by counters looking out onto Trinity’s Front Square or head down to the ‘Buttery Vaults’ section which is still attached to the main body of the restaurant but is a little bit quieter. Notably, The Buttery offers a pleasant and unfussy place to grab lunch without having to leave campus and if you are a student within the university it provides a vibrant and comfortable milieu to meet with your friends for lunch or bump into classmates and enjoy a jolly chat as you’re queuing to pay. A breezy interior with Ikea-​like furnishings corresponds well to the sizeable contingency of Trinity’s bright young things that dine here daily. The reasonable prices too adhere to the large student clientele and so if you were touring the campus one day this would be a very economical lunch to grab whilst also giving you the opportunity to soak up the student atmosphere.

I know it may be hard to believe… but there are student prices here. even though it may seem like a lot of money. its a STUDENT price.
Its amazing how sticking a label on something can make people think its cheaper. when in fact the buttery, which was in its day a bar and was the number one hang out spot for students in the university is now nothing more than a money making machine.
They say the changed it for the good of the students, however all students need is a warm place to sit, a good cheap meal, a bit of banter, and sure if there is a pint going as well then whats the harm.
Now there are dodgy seats, some of which are just stools. an expensive coffee room with frustratingly tacky seating, one of those super bright interiors that is designed to make the place look fresh and clean. yet all it does is make those hangovers (something students have a lot of) even worse.
I thought i was being ripped off until i found out what they charge for non-​students.
Avoid at all costs.
In fact, if you want a nice atmosphere in which to eat then head upstairs to the dining hall where you can get the same food (perhaps a little better) you can sit at a proper table and eat your food without much distraction. And you sort of feel like you get your moneys worth.

I miss the old Buttery. Back when it used to be a pub, with an old-​school old-​man vibe, nooks and crannies and low on the pretension. Now they’ve gone and ruined it. By trying to make it all ‘student-​friendly’, what they’ve actually gone and done is leave us with only one student bar (the Pav), and yet another overpriced place to eat. The sandwich/​smoothie place is no cheaper than popping out for a roll from Spar or Londis (the relative merits of which are a debate for another time), while the smoothies are no better or cheaper than Zumo. With less choice. The hot food isn’t much better, having been sitting there for the day at least. AND they’ve gone and tried to make it all posh with Java coffee in there, which really just means they charge us more. What happened to student dining, or have us Celtic Cubs just become more mollycoddled than is necessary?!

As student canteens go, this is certainly not the cheapest. You can however get an adequate meal for a fairly reasonable price, although they generally offer various standard pasta meals, pizza slices and curries. A welcome new development however is the new made-​to-​order wok station. Here you can choose your vegetables, type of meat and sauce which is then cooked for you freshly on the spot. there is also a pretty decent salad bar and some truely great scones on offer. The Java city café adjoining The Buttery has the comfier seating and the coffee is better than the machine stuff in the Buttery.

Gut, wenn man mal ein bisschen studentische Atmosphäre schnuppern will und gegenüber von der Book-​of-​Kells-​Ausstellung mal wieder alles voll ist, kann man sich gern auf ein Glas Cola hineinwagen. Ansonsten ist das Essen wirklich nicht gut und der Kaffee ziemlich schrecklich. Aber an den Abenden lässt es sich bei einer Dose Bier doch ganz gut aushalten — und auch die ein oder andere studentische Veranstaltung lockt

Trinity College’s Student bar boasts a city centre location that many multinational restaurant franchises would most likely commit serious, serious crimes to get their hands on. Somehow, however, the establishment has managed to go out of business in the past without much resistance at all. Taking a wild guess that this may have been something to do with the nauseating fare of baked beans, soggy bacon and greasy chips that stood as their speciality, the restaurant closed its doors and opened again last year with a revamped, and very expensive new look. Now, the underground food court boasts a sandwich counter and small salad selection alongside its still prominent beans and chips offerings. This writer’s prognosis is not good. Still though, if you have no regard for your physical health and don’t mind waiting in a twenty minute que of screaming 18 year olds from monaghan, this place is still marginally cheaper than elsewhere in the overpriced captial.