Today’s city is now home to a vibrant food culture and a guided food tour gives you the inside track on its food emporiums, side-street cheese shops, modern ice-cream parlours and Victorian public houses. Along the way you can meet some of the best baristas, chefs, hosts and makers and enjoy a delicious slice of contemporary Dublin life.

As popular with locals as with international visitors, Dublin has plenty of pub tours to choose from too. A rip-roaring literary pub tour will bring some of the city’s most famous literary rivalries to life, while a convivial Dublin whiskey tour will also send you away with a fresh take on a city – and a deeper appreciation of the sacred uisce beatha, the Irish word that gave us ‘whiskey.’