I go here multiple times a week. The staff is lovely and they make one of the best lattes in Dublin! Highly recommend
Brittin B.Takeaway, on Google
Two containers on an empty lot
Gordon Hickey was a TV producer from Dublin who cycled up Thomas Street every morning, past a lot of empty land.
He’d worked on an RTÉ show, You Should Really See A Doctor, that ran a clinic out of a shipping container at festivals. So he found a corner of The Digital Hub’s site, picked out two 20ft containers in the Docklands and turned them into a coffee shop.
It’s been part of the street ever since. When the shop gave a whole day’s takings to earthquake relief in Venezuela, customers and people passing by helped raise €3,020.
“I had no choice but to open up my own coffee shop. That’s how it all got started.”
Gordon Hickey, owner, talking to Lovin Dublin
- 2017
Opens in royal blue
Two 20ft containers from the Docklands, welded together on The Digital Hub’s site at 161 Thomas Street. Doors open in May 2017, with a ramp so everyone can get in.
- 2021
A new coat
Street artists Subset swap the royal blue for their rainbow lines and a black surround.
- Now
Red containers, rainbow benches
The yard out the back fills up on sunny days, and it has hosted weekend markets. Lovin Dublin picked Container Coffee as the winner of its Lovin Locals competition.
