A Delicious Taste of Ireland - Best Restaurants for Contemporary Irish Cuisine

A Delicious Taste of Ireland – Best Restaurants for Contemporary Irish Cuisine

Irish food often gets a bad rap, with many visitors expecting to find stodgy, unrefined dishes when seeking out authentic Irish cuisine. Now more than ever, the landscape of Irish cuisine is evolving, with many ground-breaking chefs embracing the stunning produce the island has to offer and presenting it in innovative and inventive ways. Classics […]

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Big Beer, Small Batches - The Rise of Rising Sons Brewery, Cork City

Big Beer, Small Batches – The Brewery of the Rising Sons Brewery, Cork City

Craft Beer, Drinks, Interviews / Gaby Guedez

Rising Sons Brewery is an independent family owned microbrewery, located in the heart of the Old Town in Cork City centre. Consisting of a brewpub, sports bar and a pizzeria, they currently employ 30 people on a full time basis. Producing approximately 2,500 hectolitres (over 528,000 pints of beer) per annum, their expansion plans are

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Peroni Gluten Free Conquers the Roman Empire

Features / Darina Coffey

You would be forgiven for assuming that the Italians would be the least likely nation to embrace a gluten-free approach, given that worshipping the holy trinity of pasta, bread and pizza is the draw for food pilgrimages in their millions every year. However, an iconic Italian brand is on a mission to prove this assumption

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10 Essential Ingredients of Thai Cooking with Saba’s Executive Chef Taweesak ‘Tao’

Features / Erica Bracken

With the Thai New Year approaching on the 13th – 15th of April this year, I would like to give you an insight 10 essential ingredients of Thai cooking that every kitchen cupboard should have to cook delicious Thai food. These are the same ingredients I explain to our students during our Saba Cookery Class,

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The Faces Behind the Warmth – The Killarney Park Hotel’s Niamh O’Shea & Marcus Treacy

Interviews / Darina Coffey

“In hotel-keeping, there is no one-man show or one woman show”, explains Niamh O’Shea, General Manager of the five star Killarney Park Hotel and a key part of the team priding themselves on delivering ‘Warmth Beyond the Smile’. Over a fireside cup of tea in the hotel’s luxe Drawing Room, I chatted with Niamh and

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O’Briens Wine Spring Offers have landed!

Small Bites / Roisin Flynn

With spring in the air O’Briens Wine’s are taking the opportunity to introduce some fantastic new wines to their shelves. Starting today there are over 80 exciting spring wines on promotion plus some BRAND NEW releases. The Retreat Sauvignon Blanc – New Zealand – €11.95 “Made with grapes grown in Hawkes Bay, Marlborough & Waipara,

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Twice Michelin Starred Chef Atul Kochhar on Thinking Outside the Spice Box

Interviews / Erica Bracken

It’s no exaggeration to state that twice Michelin starred chef Atul Kochhar has changed the way people perceive and experience Indian cuisine. As the very first Indian chef to receive a Michelin star, accomplished during his tenure as Head Chef at Tamarind in 2001, the Indian born, British based chef, restaurateur and television personality Atul

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A Chef Creating Quite the Stir in the Suburbs – The 1780 Restaurant at Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links Review

Restaurant Reviews / admin

It’s fair to say not a lot of good has come from the financial juggernaut that is NAMA, with many distressed properties being swallowed up by the big boys and others left to fall into disrepair. That said the Irish Hotel industry has been one of its main beneficiaries. Many large, well known premises have

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Dublin’s Most Innovative Tapas Come to Howth – Boqueria Howth Review

Restaurant Reviews / admin

Good tapas venues are not something you will find in abundance in Dublin, with the exception of one or two go to Spanish hotspots. Even at that most are more classical of what you would expect to find in an authentic joint in Barcelona rather than one that is pushing the small plate boundaries. With one

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20 Food Instagram Accounts Every Food Lover Should Follow

Features / Erica Bracken

Swooning over pictures of cute babies holding kittens, getting inspiration from muscle bound trainers and bendy yogis, and following the antics of the Kardashians are what some people use Instagram for – but for food lovers it’s tableau of edible delights and food photography. But if you are sick of food Instagram accounts saturated with

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Bountiful Baskets and Banter – 15 of the Best Food and Farmer’s Markets in Ireland

Features / Erica Bracken

‘Buying local’ has become second nature to Irish consumers over the past few years, and with that shift Irish farmers’ markets have become the bedrock of local community life and a vital stepping stone to many a fledgling start-up food and drink producers. Now, most towns in Ireland support a thriving farmers’ market, and among

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Disneyland for Chocoholics – L’Art Du Chocolat Review

Restaurant Reviews / admin

There are somedays when a career in teaching seems like a much better option than food writing – mid term break is a perfect case in point. That time of year when every parent ponders how to keep the little angels occupied for a week. We had this struggle last week and by Friday, parks,

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A Taste of the Best – Top 15 Early Bird Menus in Dublin

Features / admin

Whatever our taste buds, be it fine dining, or traditional bacon and cabbage, there is no doubting, but that we all love to eat. Throw a bargain in to the mix, and these same taste buds go in to overdrive. For a food lover like myself, I love nothing more than a restaurant that exudes

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A Vibrant Restaurant that Refuses to Blend in – Chameleon Restaurant Review

Restaurant Reviews / Erica Bracken

There’s little that would tempt me into Temple Bar on a Saturday night. As charming as the cobbled streets are, the thought of mobs of tourists and leering stag parties tend to steer me away from the area; bar a couple of exceptions, of which Chameleon restaurant is one. So, once again I found myself

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The Cream of the Cropp – Corleggy Cheese Producer Spotlight

Interviews, Producer Spotlights / Darina Coffey

Armed with little more than a cheesemaking book and ambitious trial and error approach, Silke Cropp couldn’t have imagined 30 years ago that her handmade raw milk goats cheese would become the star product it is today. “That was just the way it went, I had a goat that gave too much milk and started

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Marcus at Home by Chef Marcus Wareing – Cookbook Review

Cookbook Reviews, Recipes / Darina Coffey

Ever wondered what it is like to live with a chef? Marcus at Home promises the reader a little peek into the home kitchen of one of the UK’s most celebrated chefs. Whether Marcus Wareing is a familiar face as a judge on Masterchef: The Professionals or because his 2 Michelin starred Marcus at The

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Some Like it Hot – Baan Thai Ballsbridge Review

Restaurant Reviews / Darina Coffey

Storm Doris was rolling into town. Rather than enduring the trek to the shop in gale force winds, risking being blown into the Liffey, holing up in a cosy restaurant for some warming food seemed like a far safer bet. Add to this a latent cold and my body was crying out for over the

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Head Chef Anthony Holland at the Ice House Hotel in Ballina.

From Achill to Ballina – Chef Anthony Holland Brings a Taste of Mayo to the Ice House Hotel

Interviews / Erica Bracken

“There was a small place down the road that used to do lots of fresh seafood,” recalls Anthony Holland, head chef at the Ice House Hotel, Ballina, Co. Mayo. “They’d catch it, prep and cook it simply. It was only bar food, but it was very fresh.” Anthony is referring to Alice’s at Óstán Oileán

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Galway City hosts Gin Fest Between 30th March – 2nd April

Small Bites / Roisin Flynn

From Thursday 30th March – Sunday 2nd April 2017 The Latin Quarter in Galway will host ‘Gin Fest’, a day 4 celebration of all things related to Gin. A range of events will be taking place in the bars throughout the Latin Quarter. Exciting events such as; Master Classes and Tastings, Gin Afternoon Tea, Gin

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Irish Whiskey Society’s President Sarah Finney: “It’s Refreshing to See the Changes Happening”

Drinks, Spirits, Whiskey / Gaby Guedez

My love for whiskey comes from a slightly unconventional introduction to bourbon when I was a small child. You see, my father had the inclination to have a Maker’s Mark on ice every evening after work when I was growing up, and as a small curious child with a fascination for ice, I asked him

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How do you Like them Grapes? Grenache vs Garnacha

Comin’ atcha: Grenache vs Garnacha

Drinks, Wine / Roisin Flynn

Grenache vs Garnacha… the grape is a widely-planted grape celebrated for its bright berry flavours of raspberry and strawberry, its juicy deliciousness, and pinch of white pepper. To me it seems like the friendliest, flirtiest grape; all full-on flavour and come-hither fruitiness, luring you in with its promise of alcohol and body. Grenache is usually used

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