The best service station in Ireland?

[Insert picture here. I thought I took one, but it didn't save somehow. Boo.]

There's this cafe I've wanted to go to for ages, but always put it off. There always seemed to be better places. Because this place is in a garage. In Rathnew. Anyone who knows Rathnew knows that it's not exactly somewhere you'd dally longer than was absolutely necessary. Finally though, I went, and MY GOD, it was excellent. It has to be the best roadside/service station/motorway/garage cafe (whatever you want to call it) in the country. It's attached to an 'applegreen' (how very petroleum re-branding 2.0) and is called 'a cafe' (all lower case, naturally). It's all somehow natural, yet slick interior-decor-wise. A mixture of wood and black...lots of chalkboards, and piles of freshly baked pastries and muffins. All day full Irish breakfast. Couches to sit on. And really good flat whites. Really good. It would have got flat white of the day if I hadn't gone to Third Floor Espresso later on and had one. But that's in a different league. So if you're ever venturing south out of Dublin and need fuel, or a coffee hit on the road, take the Rathnew/Wicklow exit off the N11 and get into this place.* It's worth it.


*Presumably, this being a country-wide fuel shop, these cafes are all over the place. But are they as good? And do they have barista kings like Rathnew does?