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October 2017

Social Gallery – Exclusive Fentimans Cocktail Evening at Opium’s Botanical Garden

Fentimans hosted an exclusive cocktail evening at the newly revamped Botanical Garden at Opium Rooms this week. Guests enjoyed delicious drinks created by Fentimans Cocktail Consultant, Robert Caldwell, using Fentimans’ range of botanically brewed tonics and lemonades, along with the popular Hollows & Fentimans Alcoholic Ginger Beer. Producing superior beverages since 1905, Fentimans uses a

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Ireland Meets the Caribbean with the Newly Launched Mór Irish Gin Pineapple Edition

Ireland Meets the Caribbean with the Newly Launched Mór Irish Gin Pineapple Edition

One of our favourite things about gin is the creativity it allows to distillers. Herbs, fruits, spices, flowers… Anything goes and innovation is rapid and celebrated. This week we welcomed something quite unique, a pineapple gin, made by craft distiller Mór Irish Gin. Speaking with the company’s founder and distiller, Eoin Bara, we learned that the innovation came after the

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Ireland Voted Best International Destination at Group Leisure & Travel Awards 2017

Ireland has been voted “Best International Destination” by thousands of readers at the Group Leisure & Travel Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the second year in the row that Ireland has come out on top, beating out popular destinations like Malta, Prague, Barcelona and India. The ceremony took place in Birmingham, with representatives

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Spice Up Your Thursday – This Healthy Mexican is Giving Away Free Food Today

Zambrero, the Australian chain, which specialises in fresh, healthy Mexican food, is celebrating the opening of two new Dublin-based restaurants by offering free burritos to the first 100 customers to its new Beacon South Quarter branch. If you don’t manage to make the cut, don’t stress Zambrero are offering 2 for 1 burritos right through

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"Dublin's Own" Returns: Irish Whiskey D.W.D. Heritage Edition Just Launched

“Dublin’s Own” Returns: Irish Whiskey D.W.D. Heritage Edition Just Launched

Last Tuesday, 17th of October 2017, whiskey lovers welcomed a new Irish whiskey: D.W.D. Heritage Edition, launched on the 71th anniversary of the day after the original D.W.D. Distillery was sold at auction. Media and personalities from the whiskey industry gathered at Fire Restaurant for a first taste of a spirit that carries a name that once

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Bán Poitín

Ireland’s First Poitín Bar is Popping Up in a Secret Dublin Location Tomorrow

This Autumn, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation of Irish Poitín, Ireland’s first fully dedicated Poitín pop up launches in conjunction with ‘Bán Poitín’. The pop up bar will be open to the public from tomorrow 20th of October until the 26th November and booking is essential. The bar, ‘16-61‘, is named after the year

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Meet the Chefs Behind The House of Peroni’s La Sagra Event in Dublin

The House of Peroni is bringing Italy’s best foodie secret to Dublin this week, with a Sagra food event taking place in Meeting House Square on October 19th and 20th. Celebrating Irish food producers creating authentic Italian food here in Ireland, the event is open to the public and visitors can meet the producers, hear their

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Syrian and Irish-Based Chefs to Create a “Far-Fetched Dinner” in Aid of Refugee Chefs

Four award-winning, Irish-based, foreign-born chefs host a dinner with their Syrian refugee counterparts, to highlight the universal and democratic power of the table this month. Chefs Damien Grey of Dublin’s Heron & Grey (from Australia), Takashi Miyazaki of Miyazaki in Cork (born in Japan), Jess Murphy of Kai in Galway (originally from New Zealand) and

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Guinness Channels Nostalgia by Launching Vintage Limited-Edition Cans

Remember those witty illustrations from old-school Guinness adds? The colours, the mascots, the clever puns… So does Guinness, and in a blast from the past, the brewery has just launched a range of limited-edition cans illustrated with work by artist John Gilroy, who created many of the most memorable ads that date back to the 1930s and

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The Fat Fox

Have Coffee with Roz Purcell This Friday at The Fat Fox’s Breakfast Morning for ISPCC Childline

Whether you admire her skills in the kitchen or her striking good looks this Friday is your chance to a coffee with Roz Purcell. From 10am-12pm, on Friday October 20th, the model turned cookbook author will be hosting a breakfast morning at The Fat Fox in aid of ISPCC Childline. From their base on Camden

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Heated Igloo

Dine in a Heated Igloo on The Banks of London’s River Thames This Winter

Have you ever wanted to dine in a heated igloo with London city as the backdrop? Don’t worry because your dreams are about to come true. London’s Coppa Club restaurant is re-introducing it igloo bubbles this winter so you can enjoy some festive alfresco dining by the River Thames. The igloos, which you can book

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Bank Holiday Plans Sorted! All Day Brunch Party at Farrier & Draper

This South William Street Hotspot Will Host a Halloween Brunch Party for a Fantastic Cause

Celebrating the weekend ritual of brunch is made all the better when you can see the benefits, and Get Down Chow Down is hosting a spook-tacular Halloween all-day brunch party which will also raise awareness of the important issues engaged with by Movember like Men’s health, suicide prevention, prostate and testicular cancer. Slick city centre hotspot Farrier

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Dockland Cork

Cork’s Newest Restaurant Dockland Anchors Down in Style with Dedicated Bloody Mary Menu

In the past year Cork city has upped its game in the culinary stakes boasting impressive openings such Cask on MacCurtain Street and Rachel Allen’s first restaurant, Rachel’s, on Washington Street. Now the southern capital has another string to add to its bow with the opening of Dockland restaurant, deli and bar. The newly remodeled

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Ballyfin

Ireland’s Top Hotels Revealed in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards

More than 300,000 travellers took part in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards, with Ballyfin claiming the top spot in Ireland’s top hotels. The 5-star Co. Laois hotel beat out other prestigious Irish properties, including The Lodge at Ashford Castle, The Shelbourne and The Westbury. Writing about Ballyfin, Condé Nast Traveler said: “If you’ve

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A Rockin Ripasso for those Who Like their Reds Rich and Hearty

A Rockin’ Ripasso for those Who Like their Reds Fruity But with a Punch

Imagine this: It’s a chilly autumnal evening and you’re comfortably sitting in a sofa with cushions and blankets at your hand’s reach. You’re relaxed and cosy and you’re taking great pleasure in a glass of wine. What wine is it? Probably not a crisp, summery rosé. It’s time to call in the big guns. Enters

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Ireland’s Best Young Chefs Have Been Revealed Ahead of Young Chef of the Year Final

The youth is the hope of our future, and in the case of Irish food, the future is looking bright. The Young Chef of the Year competition has become an annual showcase of the raw talent of the up and coming chefs dotted across the country, with Euro-toques Ireland Young Chef of the Year 2013

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