Category Archives: Restaurants
A Grand Opportunity
Are you an experienced cook who fancies a little part-time sideline in a busy, boozy city-centre space? Does a three-month rent-free trial period leading up to and over the festive period sound like too good an offer not to investigate further? Read the rest of this entry
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A taste of the Midlands at Viewmount House
Last weekend myself and a couple of friends escaped to guilt-free Longford. Yes, Longford. Or Viewmount House just outside Longford town, to be exact. We had no idea if there were great things to discover on our doorstep and didn’t really care to find out. We were quite happy to make Viewmount House’s reception rooms, suites, restaurant and gorgeous gardens the extent of our world for our short stay there. Read the rest of this entry
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Curry and beer, Co Louth style
Last weekend I went to the unlikely location of Ardee, Co Louth to learn more about the kind of cooking you might find on the streets and in the homes of Bangladesh. (Read on for details of this Thursday’s Bangladeshi street food and Irish craft beer night – or this autumn’s Bangladeshi cookery classes which will keep off in September.) Read the rest of this entry
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Survey your way to Rioja
Fancy winning yourself a wine-tasting trip to Rioja at the end of next month? Have you eaten out in the Dublin in the last year? Read the rest of this entry
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Irish flavours at English Market
Look tasty? That’s what I thought when I tucked into it on the buzzing balcony of Farmgate Cafe in the English Market at lunchtime today. I was down in Cork presenting a training session on Parma ham and Parmesan cheese … Read the rest of this entry
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Special guests confirmed for National Library evening
Delighted to announce that the honourable Mr Ross Golden-Bannon of Food&Wine Magazine fame will be our very special guest tomorrow night, kicking off the readings from James Joyce’s Dubliners at Cafe Joly in Dublin’s National Library. Thanks Ross! And actress … Read the rest of this entry
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Guess who’s coming to dinner at the National Library?
A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table, and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper strewn with sprigs of parsley, lay a great ham, stripped of its outer skin and peppered over with crust crumbs, a neat paper frill round its shin, and beside this was a round of spiced beef. Between these rival ends ran parallel lines of side-dishes: two little minsters of jelly, red and yellow; a shallow dish full of blocks of blancmange and red jam, a large green leaf-shaped dish with a stalk-shaped handle, on which lay bunches of purple raisins and peeled almonds, a companion dish on which lay a solid rectangle of Smyrna figs, a dish of custard topped with grated nutmeg, a small bowl of chocolates and sweets wrapped in gold and silver papers and a glass vase in which stood some tall celery sticks. Read the rest of this entry
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Making it Mexican styley
Mexican food is, like, so hot right now. (Boom boom!) Seriously though, we can’t seem to get enough of it, and are busy stuffing our chops with everything from beefy burritos to tasty tostadas to zinging ceviche, and washing it … Read the rest of this entry
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Waterford Food Festival
We’re well and truly into food festival season. There’s a dizzying array of dates for your diary coming up, a list of which you’ll find at Discover Ireland’s food pages and details of which I’ll be keeping you posted on here in coming weeks.
But if my recent reports from Waterford’s less discovered corners whet your appetite for the charms of the sunny south east, this coming weekend is the time to dive in for yourself. Dungarvan plays host the Waterford Festival of Food (April 12–15), now one of the strongest food festivals in a busy calender. Read the rest of this entry
Day Four of Irish Food Trip: the last supper(s)
It’s not what you put on the plate but what you leave off it that counts. So said chef Paul Flynn to the five bright young things of the Irish restaurant industry who were watching him prepare the foundation for what was going to be a tasting menu of one-pot cooking (see here for details of the meal itself). Paul was quoting a conversation with a Michelin inspector, which may or may not have taken place while Paul was head chef at London’s Michelin-starred Chez Nico and Nico at Ninety early in his own career. Read the rest of this entry