Bewleys Oriental Cafe on Grafton Street is the kind of cafe everyone wants to have near their home. We went last week on our trip to Dublin for breakfast and it was really good and a lovely atmosphere. I have since learned the company was a bit of a Dublin institution and this is the last remaining site in the City. Bewleys sits on Grafton Street (towards the Liffey end rather than St Stephens Green) and has a very distictive frontage with stunning art deco style font on the sign and dark wood. Once inside there is a small coffee area which serves delicious looking cakes and tea and coffee. There are stairs up to more floors and behind these sits the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ The whole of Ireland has been shocked and stunned in the past week or so with the announcement that Bewleys, the world famous chain of coffee shops and cafes, are to close their doors for the last time sometime before Christmas. (2004) Bewleys two remaining Dublin cafes are both located in high profile (and high rent!) areas of the city; one in Grafton Street, the capital’s main shopping area, and the other in Westmoreland Street, right beside O’Connell bridge and the bustling tourist area of Temple Bar. ~ ~ Bewleys have been trading in Dublin since the early 1800’s, having been founded by the Bewley family, prominent Quakers who moved to Ireland around ...  Read the complete review

Bewley's was established around 1840 in Dublin by Joshua Bewley. There are now 3 Bewleys sites in Dublin, several in Ireland as a whole, several in England and 1 in Endinburgh and 1 in Japan. This is the kind of coffee house where you can sit and chat, read a newspaper for as long as you like. You never feel the staff wish you would leave, to free up a table. You can sit all afternoon if you like a read a book. Bewleys is actually famous for writers. A number of famous writers have been known to frequent Bewleys Coffee houses. Even today buddying authors are known to scribble their manuscipts there. The atmosphere is somewhat special. Bewleys is also ...  Read the complete review