Top Picks For a Taste of West Cork Food Festival 2016

Top Picks off a Very Tasty Menu – A Taste of West Cork Food Festival 2016

A Taste of West Cork Food Festival returns this year, ambitious as ever with 188 events over 10 days across 32 town and villages and 8 islands. A vast programme, some 27 pages long available in print and online (www.atasteofwestcork.com) covering everything from producer visits; chef dining events; kayaking, walking and history tours; debates and […]

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Napa Valley Food & Drink Travel Guide

Features, North America / Erica Bracken

Napa Valley is about an hour drive north from San Francisco – the perfect day trip or weekend get away if you love anything food and wine! Napa county consists of several little towns, most famous for its wineries and restaurants are Downtown Napa, Yountville & St. Helena. Over the past two decade, Napa has

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Bangkok Food & Drink Travel Guide

Asia & Beyond, Features / Erica Bracken

I know this much is true: many of the best eats in Bangkok can be found in the city’s vibrant street markets. The word Bangkok itself is a synonym for ‘street food’ in the Thai language, so having a least a few meals while perambulating through a labyrinth of vendors selling everything edible under the

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Ten Amazing Bars In Belfast that Show the City’s Eclectic Bar Scene

Bars & Venues, Drinks, Features, News / Gaby Guedez

Northern Ireland’s Capital offers an eclectic range of alternatives for a night out. Whether you’re looking for an authentic and traditional experience, a glamorous high-end soirée, a cool place to watch sports and taste craft beers or a quirky spot with an unusual character, Belfast has a bar for you. We compiled a list of our ten

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Timeless Taste and Well Tuned Drinks – Peruke & Periwig Review

Bars & Venues, Drinks / Gaby Guedez

Walking past the black, wooden-clad facade of no.11 Dawson street, that houses Peruke & Periwig, you could be forgiven for the presumption that this old-timely building is somewhat out of place. However, catch a glimpse through a pane of the front door on any Saturday night and you are bound to find a room brimful

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Yuzu Miso Tofu Recipe by Chef Takashi Miyazaki

Recipes, Star Chef Recipes, Vegetarian / Vegan, World Food / Darina Coffey

Agedashi Tofu is a very popular dish, especially in Izakaya restaurants in Japan. This yuzu miso tofu recipe is a customer favourite in Miyazaki, even with those who wouldn’t normally order a tofu dish. Ingredients: Dashi – 1l water – 20g kombu – 10g bonito flakes Yuzu-miso – 25g miso – 25g yuzu pepper –

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Mexican Spirits: Say Sí to Authentic Agave Drinks

Drinks, Spirits / Gaby Guedez

If we take Hollywood’s word on Tequila, there are two ways to enjoy it: Frozen Margaritas or shots (lick the salt first, suck the lime after). According to Tinseltown, Tequila is the fuel for craziness at loud college house parties and wild spring breaks or it can also be served neat to test a man’s toughness when he enters a dodgy bar that evokes

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Something Special Cooking in the Sunny South East – The Kitchen Gorey Review

Restaurant Reviews / admin

There are not many Dubs who have grown up and managed to escape an annual trip to sunny South East during the summer holidays, certainly for both of us it was a rite of passage every year. With our own kids however we hadn’t ventured down in a quite a while and with a bit

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Like fire and little bit of electricity: The World of Sour Beer

Craft Beer, Drinks / Gaby Guedez

From Berliner Weiss to Gose, I’ve got the low down on the range of beers most commonly known as ‘sours’. Much like your favourite fizzy sweets, these beers can range from lightly tart to an in-your-face, mouth-puckering sour delight. So what makes sour beers, well, sour? Sour beers owe their distinctive sour flavours to yeast

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The Pleasure of Learning: WSET Level 2 at Dublin Bar Academy Course Review

Drinks, Features, Wine / Gaby Guedez

Like any other creation worthy of developing a loyal fandom, wine has its own language and customs that look strange from the outside: the whirling, the slurping and the spitting might seem wacky for the haters and intimidating for those with a compelling curiosity but who don’t know where to get started. Many experts -real and “so called”- offer classes and

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Dot Brew Session Rye Ale – Craft Beer Review

Craft Beer, Drinks / Gaby Guedez

Session Ales share a few common traits: low alcohol percentages (generally under 4% ABV), refreshing flavour profiles and a medium to light body. However this doesn’t mean they’re all the same. The style, which has grown in popularity in recent years, backed by the boom in microbrewing and the craft beer movement in general, it’s been

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Sierra Nevada Six Rights IPA – Craft Beer Review

Craft Beer, Drinks / Gaby Guedez

With their flagship pale ale being one of my own gateway brews into the ever-evolving world of craft beer, I have always held the ‘hoptimist galactico’ that is Sierra Nevada brewery in particularly high regard. To this affect I endeavour to stay abreast of all the various different incarnations and seasonal offering that they so

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Laid-Back and Casual Charm – Fia Cafe Review

Coffee & Cafes, Drinks, Restaurant Reviews / Gaby Guedez

Fia opened its doors this past March in Rathgar, Dublin 6. Slightly off the beaten tracks of Rathmines, this dainty cafe is a charming little spot focusing on tasty locally sourced food and coffee. Having stumbled upon it before, I decided to drop by for a quick breakfast. Neatly nested in 155b Rathgar Road, Fia’s

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Connecting Coffee Addicts with Great Coffee – Network Cafe Review

Coffee & Cafes, Drinks / Erica Bracken

Network Cafe is all about connecting coffee addicts with exceptional coffee. Located on Aungier Street, opposite to the DIT Kevin Street, this gem has everything to indulge my coffee cravings. From tasty beans to uber-positive people, I know I am in good hands. The team led by the owner Ollie did a great job to

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Boarding the Lunchtime Express – 1900 Restaurant Review

Restaurant Reviews / Darina Coffey

Nothing breaks up the day like a leisurely lunch, with time to linger and lounge with fine food and company but we all know that doesn’t always happen. Despite everyone in TheTaste office being wholly pre-occupied with the topic of fabulous food and where to get it all day long, we often end up dining

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Butternut Squash and Chorizo Salad with Harissa and Feta Recipe from A Cookbook Collection

Butternut Squash and Chorizo with Harissa and Feta Salad Recipe from A Cookbook Collection

Family Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Meat Recipes, Recipes / Gaby Guedez

This salad recipe is proof that necessity is the mother of all invention. It was created from a ‘raid what is in the fridge’ night. It is so tasty and easy to make. I like to fry chorizo until it becomes crispy but feel free to cook yours less if you like. I roast a

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Mendel Semillon with Wild Irish Salmon – Recipe and Wine Pairing by Julie Dupouy

Drinks, Fish & Seafood, Recipes, Wine / Gaby Guedez

I have a great passion for discovering new wines and I love cooking for friends. I am going to introduce to you some fantastic new wines and then take you through the dishes I love to prepare with them. The dishes will be simple, the ingredients readily available and hopefully the results very memorable. So

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Fall in Love with Wines from la Bella Valpolicella

Drinks, Wine / Gaby Guedez

William Shakespeare had a soft spot for Veneto, a region in which he based classic works such as The Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Two Gentlemen from Verona and Romeo and Juliet. Just north-west from the town of the star-crossed lovers, we have Valpolicella, a region that might not have such a famous couple, but instead features a memorable triangle: Corvina, Rondinella

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Vines and the City: Urban Vineyards are a Growing Trend

Drinks, Wine / Gaby Guedez

Vineyards tend to project a bucolic aura of prosperous country life, the exalted pride of a farming heritage tracing back for generations, the ancestral happiness of the harvest. For some winemakers who lean towards the natural and minimum intervention styles, these pre-industrial era values are everything and the idea of an urban vineyard might strike them as a bit

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Penfolds: The Australian Wine Legend you Can Count On

Drinks, Wine / Gaby Guedez

Wine regions are often classified as either “Old World” or “New World”, a convenient, if blunt, dichotomy that in reality means Europe and everywhere else, respectively. But many “New World” producers are quite uncomfortable with being called ‘new’, given a lot of them have been around for over a century. They’re also wary of the

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Superfood Salad Recipe from Avoca

Healthy Recipes, Recipes, Seasonal Recipes / Darina Coffey

This superfood salad recipe from Avoca Belfast is the perfect way to pack nutrients into your lunch in the most delicious way possible. Ingredients: – 40g pumpkin seeds, smoked almonds and hazelnuts – Handful baby spinach leaves – 3 tbsp Avoca Kilmac French dressing – Small head frisèe lettuce, torn – 100g broccoli florets, purple

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