News Archive
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Cafe en Seine
28 November 2016
After all the hard work of shopping up and down Grafton Street, Café en Seine was the perfect place for friend Mary and I to grab lunch on a recent day in town. A hotspot at any time of the day, Café en Seine is a treasure trove of great food and drink.
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - House of Plates
25 November 2016
Tapas and small plate dining has taken the foodie world by storm, and, when it's done right, it’s a fantastic, social way to eat and to try out lots of different dishes. House of Plates in Castlebar, Co. Mayo is the perfect example of this.
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Opium
23 November 2016
Opium Asian Restaurant & Cocktail Bar, has been hot and happening since the day it opened its Wexford Street doors. I stopped in with friend Paul when it first opened to find all sorts of cool dudes, long legged blondes and rock band types sussing it out
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - La Cucina
22 November 2016
The bar for good food and service in Dublin City has been raised so high in these past few years that you have to be really very special if you want to compete.
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Soder + Ko
17 November 2016
We’ve had the gastropub and now it’s the gastroclub. I love the notion of good restaurant-style food being served in casual surroundings, so do many others, which is why Michelin starred chefs worldwide are rapidly turning to this ever-growing market.
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Our Latest Great Place To Stay & Eat - Kilronan Castle
15 November 2016
Ireland abounds with beautiful old heritage houses and castles and if many of them could speak for themselves no doubt the tales they would tell would be fantastic. One of the best is Kilronan Castle In Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon.
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Restaurant Review - Campagne
15 November 2016
For whatever dubious reason, getting Michelin recognition in Ireland is like Mission Impossible, says Lucinda O’Sullivan. Fortunately, Kilkenny’s fab Campagne is one of the few to get its rightful place among the stars.
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Marcel's
14 November 2016
Having reviewed Marcel’s in its original location on Mary’s Road and really liked its Franco Moroccan style colours and furnishings, I visited its new location on Merrion Row, in the buzzy heart of what's called the Golden Mile around St. Stephen's Green
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Pichet
10 November 2016
Since hitting the ground running in 2009, the fab Pichet has gone from strength to strength, keeping high the bar of good food in Ireland and continuing to be one of the hottest spots in Dublin City, and lately it’s had a major makeover.
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Le Plancha
08 November 2016
“It’s amazing what a lick of paint can do to a place”, I said to my friend Mary, in the new Le Plancha in Monkstown.
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - The Green Hen
04 November 2016
I'm rather partial to French food at all levels, which is why I love the whole extravagant French bistro vibe and ambiance of The Green Hen, not to mention the food. Located right beside the well known Old Stand Pub on Exchequer Street in Dublin City
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Our Latest Great Place To Eat - McNean House
02 November 2016
Neven Maguire is far more than one of Ireland’s best-known chefs, more importantly, he is one of Ireland’s best loved chefs. His smiling face and down to earth approach, have earned him a legion of fans.