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Stories from Grafton Street: the Mary Cake’s return, the first Bewley’s wedding, new things on the menu and the causes the café supports.
Through September 2025, Paddy Campbell’s bronze sculpture Al Di Là (“Beyond”), a woman holding the world in her hands, stood in the café as the centre of a fundraiser for UNICEF’s Gaza appeal.
After eighteen months of work, Bewley’s launched a cold brew made from 100% Colombian Fairtrade coffee, steeped in cool water for twelve hours for a smoother, less acidic cup with no additives.
The Mary Cake, created by Hungarian refugee Henry Spelter after he came to Dublin in 1956, was served to more than 300 diplomats and politicians at the Irish Ambassador’s St Patrick’s Day reception in Budapest.
For the weekend before St Patrick’s Day 2025, the café hosted traditional music, spoken word and community arts, a way for Dubliners to enjoy the festival away from the crowds.
A small tower of chocolate filling on sponge, wrapped in chocolate and topped with marzipan, the Mary Cake disappeared from the menu for twenty years when its recipe was lost during renovations.
In February 2025 the James Joyce Room, with its original Japanese-style wallpaper, hosted a Chinese Whispers afternoon tea made with Asia Market for Lunar New Year, with cherry blossom and traditional music.
The 2024 Christmas hampers: coffee, tea and treats chosen by the Grafton Street team, for people who can’t make it to the café over Christmas.
On 16 November 2023 the Grafton Street Christmas lights were switched on at Bewley’s, by two young representatives of the Little Blue Heroes Foundation, a Garda charity for families of children with serious illness.
Sarah Brittain and Luke Carton became the first couple married at Bewley’s, twenty years to the day after their first date in the café. The ceremony and reception for 90 guests took place upstairs, and Bewley’s began taking wedding bookings.
The announcement of the current website in November 2023, with menus, the café’s history and table booking in one place.
The launch of afternoon tea at Grafton Street: sandwiches, scones and patisserie from the café’s own bakery, served under the stained glass, with wine and bubbles to go with it.
