Category: Interviews

We can’t quite believe this, but we have just asked Rory O’Connell a question that he fails to answer in full. This is unusual because Rory is the kind of person that can start...

When Grainne O’Keefe was 15, her future ambitions weren’t extravagant or outlandish. She wanted a few moderately achievable things to occur in her life: to be happy, to live somewhere pleasant and decent with...

For a child whose recollection is blurry, certain memories can always trigger certain events. From going to school in Hong Kong, moving from there to Belgium (Antwerp), back to Hong Kong, and then, when...

The kitchen, says television presenter Laura Woods, is “most definitely my friend, and has been for a decade.” She is certain of that time period, she adds, because the arrival of her first child...

You might have thought it inevitable that someone with an upbringing that revolved around food, food produce/development, restaurants and (in general) making sure that people’s eating requirements were looked after would be a shoo-in...

In 2019, before you-know-what took over our lives, our thoughts and our sleeping patterns, Galway’s Gráinne Mullins was on the way up-and-up following her skilled dessert-making stints at the likes of Ashford Castle and...

It’s never too late, but try telling that to an ambitious 25-year-old. If you are Ahmet Dede, however, being late to the party (so to speak) isn’t as much of a disadvantage as it...

“It came as a huge surprise. When they told me over a Zoom call that they wanted to give me the award I was really blown away. It was quite emotional, to be honest.”...

Any business that has survived a 20-year existence, from selling their goods out of the boot of a compact car to establishing itself as a credible go-to, has to be doing something right. When...

When genuine street food ventures inside, all manner of things can happen – good and bad. With regards to Ranelagh-based Nightmarket, however, you only have to read the hot takes of food critics to...

Darren Hogarty lives on the cutting edge of pastry. He speaks with such eloquence on the topic of what it means for food to be Irish, making him the ace in Chapter One’s deck. In Cathal Brugha...

We sat down with Francis Brennan for the Christmas Edition of TheTaste to see how he plans out his festive season, we asked him about his new book and his hopes for 2021. If...

Tell us how you started out on your culinary journey? I started cooking at the age of seven years old. Baking with my mother after watching a program with Paul Bocuse, I was really...

Brian McDermott is an award-winning celebrity chef and author from Co Donegal, as well as chef-proprietor of the newly-restored Foyle Hotel in Moville.   Brian’s book “Donegal Table” has just won Best Cookery Book in the...

While 2020 may be a strange year for most of us, the team at Pichet are delighted to be looking to the future by continuing to serve up some of the best food and...

This month we get an insight into Noel Anderson, managing director of two high profile bars in Dublin, Lemon & Duke and Bridge 1859. He tells us how he got into the pub trade...

This month we sat down with Chef John Coffey from the Michelin Bib Gourmand Award Winning Thyme Restaurant in Athlone. Thyme was opened in November 2007 by John Coffey and his wife Tara with...