The media buzz around the opening of Rachel Allen’s first ever restaurant venture, Rachel’s, in Cork City could not have been missed. For many, it came as a surprise. Why Cork and not Dublin?...
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...
It was one of those very Galway nights: sideways rain with an unmerciful wind that seems to blow into every crevice of even the most dutiful winter coat. We scurried down Dominic street and...
I have often pondered the advice “under promise and over deliver”, the wisdom which would see us selling ourselves short only to exceed all expectation. Catching a cab to Smithfield, I ask the taxi...
The first place that springs to mind when you contemplate where to indulge in truly authentic Italian cuisine in Ireland? Surely not in the wilds of Kerry, right? You would be forgiven for overlooking...
There is no denying, it is an exciting time to eat in Dublin at the moment. New restaurants are popping up all over the city and in less obvious corners with the rise of...
In restaurant years, a decade is a very exciting age: mature enough to have developed a loyal customer base and to have found its place in the neighbourhood, but young enough to keep evolving...