Editorial Review
Kish Fish
The Atmosphere
“The Dublin trade counter that supplies half the city's kitchens, open to the public since the 1960s.”
Kish Fish is a wholesale operation on Bow Street in Smithfield, a few doors from the Jameson distillery, that has kept a public counter for sixty years. Because the trade buys here at dawn, what is on the ice at nine in the morning is what the good restaurants chose. It is the best fish shop in Dublin for anybody cooking in an apartment, and the staff are used to explaining what a Dublin Bay prawn actually is to visitors who have only met them as scampi.
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What it actually feels like.
Go before ten in the morning. Combine it with the Jameson Bow St. tour, which is two minutes' walk away.
Why we recommend it
A space that justifies the journey.
Buying where the restaurants buy is the shortest route to eating well in a rented Dublin kitchen. Nowhere else in the city centre comes close.