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Skerries’ Newest Café Offers Award-Winning Coffee Surrounded by Beautiful Design

Seaside village Skerries’ picturesque harbour offers the idyllic setting for the town’s new coffee shop, located within the gorgeous interior emporium Goat in the Boat. As you might expect, the café boasts eye-catching, unique furniture. Salvaged cinema seats, recycled and upcycled pieces and bespoke furnishing invites you to sit down and relax, while you enjoy a cup […]

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Aldi Releases Wine Advent Calendar and We’re Counting the Days to Get One

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Aldi is on a roll, earlier this week the retailer announced their first Processo jeroboam or 3 littre bottle which will be on the shelves for the Christmas season. Now they’re making headlines again thanks to their new wine advent calendar which will hit stores in the UK on November 14th. Aldi’s wine advent calendar

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10,000 Diamonds Went Into the Making of the Scary yet Beautiful Crystal Head Aurora Vodka

10,000 Diamonds Went Into the Making of this Scary yet Beautiful Premium Vodka

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

If you’ve seen a bottle of award-wining Crystal Head Vodka you’ll remember it thanks to its distinctive skull shape. Now the Canadian company, founded by actor and entrepreneur Dan Aykroyd, has launched Crystal Head Aurora, a craft spirit made from English wheat and pristine water from Newfoundland, Canada and diamond filtered. Distilled five times and filtered seven times,

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Netflix and Chilled Chablis – Our Three Top Wine Picks for this Weekend

Drinks, Small Bites, Wine / Gaby Guedez

As autumn settles in, the amount of wine events and tastings going on in Dublin multiplies. This week we’ve had the opportunity to taste wines from some of Dublin’s top retailers and independent importers and we have have gathered a trio of recommendations that will surely go down a treat this weekend. Chablis Grand Vin

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Five of the Best Bars to Watch the All Ireland Final in Dublin

News / Gaby Guedez

One of the country’s biggest sports events will take place this Sunday 17th of September, the All Ireland Final, which will see Dublin battling it up against Mayo. GAA fans in Dublin have plenty of options regarding where to go and watch the big game, we have rounded up five of our favourites below… One

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Savour the Last Drop of Summer with a Tasting of Wines from Rías Baixas in L’Atitude 51

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

The wines from the Spanish region of Rías Baixas offer a distinctive freshness and a consistent quality that has earned a place in the heart of Irish wine lovers. This 27th of September, L’Atitude 51 in Cork will be hosting a special tasting dedicated to the DO, where the Albarino grape is queen, hosted by wine

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The Ice House Harvest Dinner Promises a Memorable Autumnal Feast this October

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

The Ice House will host its first Harvest Dinner on the 6th of October and the event promises to be a celebration of seasonal flavours harvested from the Enniscoe Organic Gardens during the autumn. Expect a combination of the freshest and most flavourful vegetables and fruit, along with some fantastic locally sourced, seasonal meat and fish. Located in Ballina,

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Is this the Real Life? Is this Just Fantasy? Aldi Launches 3 Litre Bottle of Prosecco

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

If you think a magnum is cool, wait until you you meet the Prosecco jeroboam, a show-stopper bottle with a capacity of three litres (four regular bottles) and the size that Aldi has chosen for its latest fizz launch. The retailer has made the announcement ahead of the festive season and is expecting to put

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Drinking the Episodes with Richard Kelley MW, the Man Behind The Liberator Wine Saga

Drinks, Interviews, Wine / Gaby Guedez

It takes someone with a deep understanding of the rules to break them triumphantly. Master of Wine Richard Kelley has achieved it with a project that in less experienced hands would be deemed as no more than an eccentricity but that thanks to his knowledge and ability to bring people together to create something singular has

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Say Prost! Oktoberfest Dublin is Coming Soon and Here's All you Need to Know

Say Prost! Oktoberfest Dublin Starts Tomorrow and Here’s Why you Can’t Miss it

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

This year’s Oktoberfest Dublin is getting closer and beer lovers are in for a treat as the local rendition of the world-famous festival promises to be a two week long celebration of beer, food and Bavarian tradition. Starting on September the 14th and until the 1st of October, Oktoberfest Dublin will take place in George’s Dock

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You’ve Been Drinking Champagne the Wrong Way all your Life

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

While the sight of a delicate Champagne flutes awaiting a bubbly serve of Champagne is enough to cause a Pavlovian reaction in wine lovers, the thin and elongated container is not precisely the ideal one to get the most out of fine fizz. Krug Champagne’s CEO, Maggie Henriquez, brought that issue recently to the world’s attention before

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This Fruity Spanish Garnacha Is A Getaway Red for the White Wine Drinker

Drinks, Small Bites, Wine / Gaby Guedez

It is often the case with people who drink exclusively or mostly white wines that they shy away from the reds due to the tannins. These are absent from white wines, but a crucial element of reds, and they’re the ones to blame (or to thank for) that sensation of dryness in one’s mouth. However, the

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Up the Dubs! Brewery Releases Limited Edition Beer for the All Ireland Final

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

As excitement reaches fever pitch ahead of the impending clash between Dublin and Mayo, proud Dubliner The 5 Lamps Brewery has just launched the perfect beer to drink during the All Ireland final, well, at least if you root for the Dubs. Up the Dubs! is an apricot infused wheat beer brewed with a “luminescent golden

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Sourdough September at The Natural Bakery: Demonstrations and Free Starter Kits In-Store

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

The Natural Bakery is celebrating Sourdough September with a series of free demonstrations through the month at their Donnybrook branch. They’ll also give away free sourdough starter kits to those wishing to learn how to bake their own real sourdough. The demonstrations will take place every Wednesday of September between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm

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SPIT Wine Festival Returns to the Smock Alley Theatre this October

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Wine lovers have a date to mark on their calendars: October 5th, the day in which this year’s SPIT Wine Festival will return to the Smock Alley Theatre to offer you a taste of over 150 different wines from eclectic artisan producers, brought into Ireland by some of the countries best independent importers. The first

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Bollinger Rosé 2006 Champagne to Be Available Exclusively from the Brown Thomas Marvel Room

Bollinger’s New Glamorous Champagne Coming Soon Exclusively to Brown Thomas’ Marvel Room

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

The newly launched limited edition of Bollinger Rosé 2006 is sure to be an ideal present or treat for yourself. It will be available in Ireland from the 20th of October, exclusively a the Marvel Room in Brown Thomas Dublin. Beautiful inside and out, the bottle comes in a stunning metallic gift box which weaves and

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Doughnut Disturb: This Hotels Delivers a Giant Doughtnut to your Room

Doughnut Disturb: This Hotel Delivers a Giant Doughtnut to your Room

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Hotels have countless ways to surprise their guests with amenities and appealing extras, but none as sweet as the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort’s in California, which has recently launched a “Donut Disturb” package, which includes a carb-tastic doughnut that’s almost one metre wide and weights over 100 times what your average ring shaped treat is

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Kelis Finally Revealed her Milkshake Recipe and it Does Bring the Boys to the Yard

Kelis Finally Revealed her Milkshake Recipe and it Does Bring All the Boys to the Yard

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Kelis’ hit song Milkshake brought all the boys to the yard back in the early 2000s and while in the song she said she could teach you but she’d have to charge, seems like the singer has had a change of heart because she has just share it for free. Just FYI, after a decade

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The Celtic Whiskey Shop is Treating Whiskey Lovers to Two Tastings this Month

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Save the date: September 21st is one for whiskey lovers to mark on the calendars as award-winning retailer Celtic Whiskey shop is hosting not one but two whiskey tastings. One will be in-store, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and you’ll be able to try Prizefight Whiskey, described as “a collaborative Irish whiskey, distilled and aged

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5 Reasons why you Shouldn’t Miss the Irish Craft Beer Festival this Weekend

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Heading to the Irish Craft Beer Festival 2017? The event, running from the 7th to the 9th of September in the RDS, offers a great opportunity to taste fine brews from companies new and established. Below, five arguments in favour of not missing this exciting event… 1. You’ll be among the first ones to discover new

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Save the Date: California Wine Fair is Coming to Ireland this September

News, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

After the successful California Wine Week in Dublin last May, wines from the Golden State are coming back to the spotlight, this time for Ireland’s California Wine Fair next September at the iconic Shelbourne Hotel. On Thursday 28th of September, wine lovers will be amazed by food and wine matching stations, seminars and a tasting of

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