Niall Sabongi sounds as if he’s out of breath. It is, he says with barely any prompting, “a bit hectic these days.” We hear you, Niall, we hear you. For the past few months, he has been working on the kitting out, the design, the opening, the hiring of the team and the slow emergence […]

When Simon Delaney – busy actor and established presenter of the Virgin Media One morning show, Weekend AM – says that food is his favourite topic, he means it. This is no glib or facetious comment from the man but rather the considered remark of a person who several years ago was a finalist in

Career life choices can be tricky things. Some people steer themselves far away from their family influences, while others are, you might say, born into what they eventually make a living from. Take Catherine Fulvio, for example. While one of Ireland’s best-known and most visible chefs worked at a PR agency and then as a

It’s a truism as much as cliché to say that good things come to those who wait, but when it comes to Graham Herterich and his partner Daithi Kelleher, that their small-acorn-big-oak ideas of almost nine years ago have (2020 notwithstanding) settled into a very nice place. Back in 2012, having been made redundant from

“A good place to start,” offers Ciara Kelly, “is to say that I love it.”  As a broadcaster and newspaper columnist (and as if we could ever let her forget, a former GP), Ciara Kelly is well used to voicing her opinions on many different topics. When it comes to food, however, there is a

It is a rarity that as a child we know with absolute certainty what we want to be when we grow up, but Wade Murphy did. The chatty chef/proprietor of 1826 Adare says there was no doubt in his mind that he’d be breathing in kitchen fumes and aromas ranging from fragrant to pungent for