Vice Coffee Inc is the daytime coffee bar at Wigwam, a multi-use bar and venue on Middle Abbey Street in central north Dublin. The street sits between the Jervis shopping area and O'Connell Street, one of the city's main transport spines, so the approach is all trams, shoppers, and quick city-centre foot traffic. Step inside and the cafe reads as a bar room: counter under bright lights, booths around the venue floor, rum bar and ping pong nearby. That is the shortlist case: rotating specialty coffee, a three-drink Irish coffee menu, and a room that feels nothing like a neutral cafe.
Coffee style
The coffee offer is built around Irish and international roasters, with the beans changing by season and brew method. Espresso is the easy order, filter gives the bar more range, and the retail shelf is part of the visit: single origins, blends, brewing gear, and staff who can grind beans or talk through a home setup. It is a stronger stop when you ask what is on, then let the bar point you toward the right cup.
Irish coffee
Irish coffee is the signature here. Fancy Frankie gets the headline billing, made with espresso and Teeling Small Batch, but Plain Jane and Luxurious Linda make the menu feel broader than one trophy drink. The serve fits the setting: coffee technique, whiskey, cream, and a bar-room pace, without pretending the drink is only for tourists.
Food and room
Food is there to support the coffee, not to carry lunch by itself. Toasties are the main order if you need something savoury, while the counter usually leans on cakes and sweet things from local bakeries. The room suits a coffee, an Irish coffee, and a bite more than a full meal, and it rewards a booth more than a laptop spread.
The feel
The Wigwam setting shapes the visit. It gives Vice a social room with music, bar traffic, visitors, students, and regulars moving through, but it also means this is not the place to look for quiet or soft cafe manners. Come for conversation, a central meeting point, or a short stay that turns into a second drink; choose somewhere calmer if you need silence.
What people go for
Why Filter Notes has shortlisted Vice Coffee Inc
Vice Coffee Inc is shortlisted because it does more than serve a good cup in the centre of town. Cross Dublin for the Irish coffee, the rotating roasters, the retail shelf, and the oddity of drinking all of it inside Wigwam; know before going that the same room makes the visit louder, looser, and less settled than a conventional cafe.