News Archive
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - The Waterloo Bar & Grill
29 June 2012
I love Gastropubs of all sorts; provided that is that they live up to the ideal of the Gastropub, which is cracking restaurant style food in informal surroundings. The Waterloo Bar & Grill certainly meets those criteria with knobs on. The original Wate
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Randaddy's - Lahinch
28 June 2012
Isn’t Randaddy’s just the perfect name for a café restaurant in the home of Ireland’s surfing world? It’s so very Beach Boys, so perfect in every way to convey a light fun atmosphere but, as well as that, chef proprietor Randy Lewis also dishes up ..
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Pat Whelan Butchery Skills Demo at Avoca Monkstown
28 June 2012
On Tuesday 10th July, renowned craft butcher Pat Whelan is holding an evening butchery demonstration class in Avoca Monkstown, where he'll show you how to use knives safely, butcher pork and beef and give you a new found confidence and understanding ...
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - EASTERN VALUE EATERIES
26 June 2012
There is a lot of good value to be had out there on the general eatery scene if you look around. I don’t mean the Internet ‘cheap deals’, which are often not that cheap in the end. The greater value, however, does tend to be in Dublin,a factor that isnt
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The Antique Gems on Francis Street
19 June 2012
Lucinda O'Sullivan was heartened to discover talents of all sorts busily engaged in a thriving city antiques quarter
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Restaurant Review - Ard na Sidhe
19 June 2012
Tucked away on a height, overlooking the glorious Caragh Lake in Co. Kerry, just outside Killorglin, lies one of the most beautiful houses, and most perfect of romantic and magical escapes, in the country. Set on 32 acres of spectacular garden
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A Magical Kingdom To Be Explored
12 June 2012
Kerry is a place that is extraordinarily good for our souls. Sunshine or rain, it somehow doesn't matter, because we are always blown away by the.....
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Restaurant Review - The Weir
12 June 2012
God be with the days when the culinary experience in many hotels was universally described in one sweeping, dismissive, statement “hotel food.” It is a term that said it all - dreary ‘bad mammy’ food embellished with commercial gravy .....
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Accents - Anna Young's "Sober Pub"
04 June 2012
THERE are very few places in this country where you can just get a cup of coffee and a cake in the evenings. It's a poor state of affairs. Cafes tend to shut up shop anywhere between 4pm and 6pm, or alternatively they swing into restaurant mode. Option
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - BRIOCHE CE SOIR
04 June 2012
Laissez faire was rampant during the CT years, nowhere more so than in the restaurant industry, with many chefs churning out anything they felt like in the name of 'contemporary' food at ridiculous prices.