Marcos Fernández Head Winemaker at Doña Paula: "We Oenologists are the Doctors of Wine"

Marcos Fernández Head Winemaker at Doña Paula: "We Oenologists are the Doctors for Wines"

Marcos Fernández, Head Winemaker at Doña Paula: “We Oenologists are the Doctors of Wine”

“People love to talk to the ones who make their wines”, says Marcos Fernández, Head Winemaker at Doña Paula, who visited Dublin recently. He speaks the truth, as a big part of a winemaker’s yearly planner is filled with press trips, festivals and other events that aim to let the world taste his wines. And as […]

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Watch: Aldi Launches New Christmas Advert Starring Kevin The Carrot

Small Bites / Erica Bracken

This morning supermarket Aldi was finally unveiled as the brand behind the anonymous teasers which have popped up across social media over the past few days, featuring a lone carrot and the verse, ‘Legends aren’t born they’re grown’. The advert follows the plight of Kevin The Carrot, who at 3 inches tall, embarks on a

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Finalists of Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year 2016 are Announced

Small Bites / Erica Bracken

Hundreds of young chefs from across the country entered and now the six finalists for Euro-toques Young Chef of the Year have been announced at an exclusive event today in the five star Merrion Hotel. Euro-toques Ireland celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year, with this being the 29th year of the Euro-toques Young Chef

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Five Wines from Aldi to Celebrate this Holiday Season

Drinks, Wine / Gaby Guedez

As the nation goes awww thanks to Aldi’s new Christmas mascot Kevin the Carrot and it’s insanely cute seasonal TV ad, we recently went wow at the retailer’s Christmas wine tasting, not just because it was held at the stylish venue Farrier and Draper, but because the level of quality we found was remarkable, and with those prices,

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Are you the Merlot of your Group? Find Out on Merlot Day November 7th

Drinks, Wine / Gaby Guedez

Today, International Merlot Day, we celebrate one of the world’s most popular grapes. Sweet, friendly Merlot, sometimes snubbed as too “easy to drink”, but… since when is that a bad thing in a wine? If you realised you’re not really a Pinot Noir, and you didn’t really related to the things Cabernet Sauvignon lovers know, perhaps

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Wine Agenda: Join the Celebration of Sherry Week Ireland – 7th to 13th November

Events, Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Sherry Week has started! Running from November 7th to 13th the event explores the history, culture and creation of Sherry, a unique, kaleidoscopic expression of one place – the triangle of towns around Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia in southwestern Spain, where these fabulous wines have been made for centuries. Sherry Week in Ireland will show

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Find Your Inner Chef at a Cookery School Experience in Northern Ireland

Features / Gaby Guedez

One of the best ways of learning how to up your game in the kitchen, meet star chefs and become more acquainted with the incredible Northern Ireland larder, is to take a cooking class. Luckily there’s plenty of local cookery schools to teach you the tricks of the trade. Here’s a quick breakdown of some

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Le Pain Quotidien in Kildare Village Named Bord Bia Just Ask Restaurant of the Month

Small Bites / Erica Bracken

Le Pain Quotidien, located in designer outlet destination Kildare Village has been awarded Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for November. Belgian chef and baker Alain Coumont has brought his philosophy of seasonal, organic and local produce to more than 230 restaurants worldwide and the Kildare Village restaurant exemplifies this. Currently in its seventh year,

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Beaujolais Nouveau is on its Way! Global Launch to Take Place on November 17th

Small Bites / Gaby Guedez

Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé, or should we say Nü Bojo is in the house! The popular vin de primeur will see its global launch this November 17th. To celebrate the end of the harvest, George Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau will be distributed around the world on that day. According to French law and tradition, Beaujolais Nouveau

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Wine Agenda: The Unusual Suspects Arrive to Cliff House Hotel on the 10th of November

Events / Gaby Guedez

Five star Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore is delighted to host a unique celebration of the vineyard, the land and the sea, showcasing surprising grapes through unconventional methods this 10th of November. Cliff sommelier Thierry Sauvnot, Pascal Rossignol from Le Caveau in Kilkenny and Michelin star chef Martjin Kajuiter will team up for a fun and informative evening which

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NYC Italian with Northern Charm – Coppi Belfast Review

Restaurant Reviews / Darina Coffey

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Italian restaurants. I’ve always been a saltimboca over spaghetti kind of girl and sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who isn’t partial to pizza. Having eaten my way around Northern Italy, I know that there is an edge to the cuisine

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Paul Rankin on TV Chefs, Northern Irish Food and Missing the Kitchen

Interviews / Darina Coffey

Paul Rankin is a source of great pride for Northern Ireland, winning NI’s first Michelin Star in 1991 for his then restaurant, Roscoff. But meeting him backstage at the BBC Good Food Show, it’s first time in Northern Ireland in Belfast’s Waterfront, I can’t shake the mental label of TV stalwart from my childhood. I

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Discovering a Hidden Gem in Cavan – St. Kyran’s Restaurant Review

Restaurant Reviews / Darina Coffey

I was reminded of the saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ when I visited St. Kyran’s Restaurant in Virginia, County Cavan recently. From the outside the property looks unremarkable – a humble, bungalow-style building with a distinctly residential feel. I was convinced that I must have taken a wrong-turn along the way but

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Easier than Pie American Treats for Thanksgiving

Features / Darina Coffey

Did anyone else grow up envious of our American cousins on shows like Friends enjoying what seemed like Christmas a month early? On the other side of the Atlantic, the last Thursday of November is well a truly a day to give thanks, for US Independence and undoubtedly for all the delicious treats that make

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A Little Taste of the Orient in Clontarf – Yang’s Review

Restaurant Reviews / Darina Coffey

Let’s be honest, here in Ireland Chinese food often gets a bad rap. Every town in Ireland has at least one outlet which isn’t necessarily doing the cuisine’s reputation any favours, yet we return time and time again for our fix of what is seen as a guilty pleasure – saccharine sauces and greasy battered

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Magical Christmas Markets Across Europe

City Breaks, Europe, Features, Travel Inspiration / Darina Coffey

Halloween is dead and gone and our sights are firmly set on the arrival of the festive season, winter is upon us and some of us couldn’t be happier! In recent years it seems to set in that little bit earlier and while I’m not suggesting you don your Buddy the Elf costume or erect

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Neven Maguire: “There’s no hidden side to Neven Maguire, what you see is what you get”

Interviews / Erica Bracken

A chef’s life is notoriously demanding, and that’s before you into account Neven Maguires’s extra circular activities: running his own restaurant, guest house, and cookery school, filming TV shows (he holds the record for RTE’s largest ever audience for a cookery programme), developing cookbooks (13 of them), hosting cookery demos all over the country, working

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“It’s all About Trust” – The Herterich Butchers Story

Features, Producer Spotlights / Gaby Guedez

“We believe in family”, says Louis Herterich, Master Butcher at Herterich Artisan Butchers. And the facts speak for themselves: his wife Caroline and his sister Martina both work full time in the business, and his son Louis -he has three boys and three girls- is learning the trade from him. When he’s fully trained, Louis -son- be

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Affordable Luxury You Won’t Want to Leave – The Merchant Hotel Belfast Review

Restaurant Reviews / admin

What a moment the NI food scene is enjoying at present. When we visited a couple of weeks ago for the BBC GoodFood Show we could not get over the air of positivity and buzz about the place. Thousands of foodies travelled far and wide to catch a glimpse of celebrity chefs such as Paul

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When The Best Chef in Latin America Came to Galway – An Interview with Virgilio Martinez

Interviews / Erica Bracken

Picking up right where Food on the Edge left off last year, in the opening address for the second annual global chef symposium director JP McMahon sparked a conversation on ‘The Future of Food’; the theme of the festival. Just as provocative as his rallying call to action for chefs to become true change makers was his attire. Never

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It’s all Brews and Games: The Square Ball, Hogan Place – Bar Review

Bars & Venues, Drinks / Gaby Guedez

With a very traditional front lounge, a back room covered in astro-turf and a wood fire oven in the same building, The Square Ball is quite a difficult one to classify. A member of the Bodytonic alliance along with some notable other Dublin pubs such as the Bernard Shaw (the birthplace of Dublin hipsterism) and

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