Streets we work most months
Ranelagh and Rathmines were among the first three Dublin areas we worked when Dublin Cattering opened — and there's a steady rhythm of private dinners, milestone birthdays and small wedding-related events through the year. The list below is roughly the regular streets.
- Ranelagh Road, Marlborough Road, Northbrook Avenue — Victorian red-brick terraces, mostly 4-bed converted family homes
- Mountpleasant Avenue, Belgrave Road — bigger semi-detached houses, the kitchens often refurbished for entertaining
- Sandford Road, Sallymount Avenue — quieter mid-terrace blocks, smaller dinners
- Leinster Square, Castlewood Avenue — gardens deep enough for a small summer marquee dinner
- Beechwood Avenue, Charleston Road — long row of red-brick with original tiled hallways
- Rathmines Road / Lower Rathmines Road — apartment block conversions; tighter kitchens but workable for 6–10 covers
What Dublin 6 books most
Three-quarters of our D6 work is private dinners. The other quarter is mostly wake catering and the occasional company-founder evening drinks plate.
- Private dinners (8–18 covers). Friday evening is the favourite. A 4- or 5-course menu, Niamh cooking from your kitchen, Aoife on the room. Average €105pp.
- Milestone birthdays (30–60 covers). Standing canapés in a marquee in the garden, plated dinner inside. Late June / early July is the busy window.
- Family wakes. Wake catering bookings come from D6 weekly. Sandwich tray, soup, sweet tray, urn — set up by lunchtime when the call comes in before 10.00.
- Engagement-party drinks plates. Standing service for 30–50, two-hour window. From €28pp.
A note on Victorian Dublin kitchens
Most Ranelagh / Rathmines houses have had the kitchen done at some point in the last fifteen years — usually an open-plan extension across the rear, a four-ring induction hob, a single oven and a worktop island. That's a fine setup for up to twelve covers; for fourteen or sixteen we sometimes bring a portable burner and use the original first-floor return as a plating staging area.
What occasionally catches us out: shared garden access for the van (we need to load and unload directly), the original chimney-breast extractor (often too low-power for a full plated service), and the depth of the front-door step (some 1880s houses are awkward for a wheeled hot-hold trolley). Nothing fatal — Aoife flags any of these on the site recce.
Services available across Dublin 6
- Private dinners — the bulk of our D6 calendar
- Wedding catering — home weddings in Dublin 6 gardens (about three a year)
- Wake catering — same-day delivery, often before lunchtime
- Corporate catering — for the small Ranelagh-edge office clients