News Archive
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Restaurant Review - Aroi
30 April 2014
Street food is the thing people talk about when they return from the Far East. Those morsels of deliciousness cooked and sold, for no more than a few cents, from stalls in the markets and on the streets
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Kirsti O'Kelly's 'Silver Darlings'
29 April 2014
Kirsti O'Kelly's Silver Darlings are inspired by Kirsti's native Finland, where herrings are an everyday staple. We have wonderful herrings in our Irish waters but a lot of them are exported to Scandinavia, Europe, Japan and the Middle East and the Scandi
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Sefik Dikyar's Baklava to die for!
29 April 2014
Sefik Dikyar is originally from Turkey, and he produces the best Turkish baklava, and other specialties, I have seen this side of the Bosphorus.
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3 to Try - All Greek to Me
24 April 2014
Take yourself off to a Greek or Mediterranean restaurant and try some of their very interest mezze dishes.
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Restaurant Review - El Greco
24 April 2014
People sometimes say to me, "How do you pick a restaurant to review?" The answer is simple. In a review, people want to know about new restaurants, and new eateries are opening apace – especially in Dublin.
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COME DANCING AND LEAVE YOUR WORRIES BEHIND
21 April 2014
SINCE time immemorial, the movement of dance has fascinated, enthralled and even frightened at times. Around the world, there are courtship dances, rain dances, sword dances and war dances, not to mention the Maori Haka. Just as Spain enthralled...
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FOOD NOTES
21 April 2014
The new Terenure Village Market kicked off last Sunday, outside Gerry Caffrey Motors on Terenure Road North. The market committee is made up of a small number of locals who volunteered their time to set up this market "to try revive
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Restaurant Review - Brookwood
19 April 2014
Brookwood’ is a new eatery on busy buzzy Lower Baggot Street.I can’t say I quite get the significance of the slightly rural folksy name in the center of the city, particularly as it is a sleek steak and seafood house, rather than of the ‘fumble and forage
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Ardmore Open Farm, Brigid Shelly Gallery, White Horses Restaurant
18 April 2014
WE COULDN'T help but burst out laughing at the sight of 'Dorothy' rolling languorously on her back, then pausing mid-roll to look at us as if to say, 'come scratch my tummy'.
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3 to Try - Steak & Seafood
16 April 2014
Steak and seafood restaurants are perenially popular and here are three suggestions you might like to try.
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Restaurant Review - 8A Brasserie
11 April 2014
Having now lived for many years in Monkstown, County Dublin, I remember when number 8A Monkstown Crescent was Coopers – which was one of a chain of popular bistro/brasserie-style restaurants around the capital.
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Cracking Easter Breaks
08 April 2014
FOR the next couple of weeks it is all about fluffy yellow chicks, Easter bunnies and lots of chocolate. Hotels around the country are getting ready to welcome guests over the Easter holidays with various packages.....
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3 to Try - Fashionably, fabulously fast.
04 April 2014
There is some really great food to be had in the casual fast food dining arena nowadays. Here are three interesting places to try
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LIMERICK'S CULTURE & CHIPS
01 April 2014
DENIS Allen’s anthemic Limerick, You’re a Lady pays tribute to the Shannon’s waters as “tears of joy that flow”.
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Restaurant Review - Galileo's
01 April 2014
It was a lovely, bright, Sunday morning. Spring was in the air, the daffodils were peeking through and the "urge was upon me" to point the car in some direction out of Dublin! I am notoriously last-minute – some might say impulsive, some might say advent