Shops & Restaurants
Dublin Airport has operates a solid base of shops and restaurants to keep you engaged while waiting for your flight. Visitors will find a pharmacy, book store and a small snack stand landside of security, but the best selection of shops is in The Loop, which lies airside in the area leading to Piers A and D. The Loop hosts more than 25 retailers that are open from around 05:00 to 21:00 daily.
Shops in The Loop sell everything from designer fashions and jewellery to chocolates and wine, and they guarantee that their prices will meet or beat those in Dublin City. Shopping is a great way to kill time at the airport, especially if returning your Dublin Airport car rentaltook less time than you expected. You can easily spend an hour or so perusing the likes of Louis Copeland's, Wrights of Howth, Calvin Klein and Boggi Milano.
The Loop also has a number of restaurants on offer, but a better selection of eateries in Dublin Airport is at the airside Mezzanine Food Court. Across the airport, coffee shops, sandwich bars, fast-food restaurants and a host of cafés are open at various hours, such that there's always food being served when passengers are landing or taking off.
Skyview and Jameson bars are great landside venues for passing the time prior to takeoff. Several more Irish pubs are scattered across the four piers on the opposite side of security, while the Food Hall serves Irish breakfast daily from 03:30. For even more authentic fare, consider stopping by the Brasserie, where classics like Dublin Bay seafood chowder and Ballybroden lamb stew headline the menu.