Current News
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SAVOUR KILKENNY 2010
01 September 2010
The 4th Kilkenny Food Festival to be the biggest and best yet with a mouthwatering line up of events. The majestic walls of Kilkenny Castle - where last year's Banquet was held - see photo - will form a spectacular backdrop to this year's Festival....
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Get Back to Cooking
30 August 2010
For the past fifteen years our TV screens have been literally awash with cookery programmes from the sublime to the ridiculous. We have had the Two Fat Ladies, doling out colonial style ‘receipts’ with Jennifer dipping her grotesquely painted finger
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Canal Cafe by Clodagh - Restaurant Review
30 August 2010
It seems you are nobody nowadays unless you reach the status of single monicker fame – Elizabeth, Charles, Posh, Becks, Armani, Delia, Nigella, Darina, Rachel, …and now ‘Clodagh’…… Some might say its a tad cocky and pretentious until you have achieve
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Wild Honey Inn
26 August 2010
In anyone’s terms it has to be a fantastic achievement to take on a new premises, refurbish it, launch your business, and within 12 months be awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Leitrim, Explore, Experience and Enjoy
26 August 2010
A new tourism brand for county Leitrim was launched today to act as a one stop information shop for visitors to the county supporting the county’s thriving tourism industry. The new entity ‘Leitrim – explore, experience, enjoy’ is aimed at reaching out an
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Gourmet Greystones Big Day - 5th September, 2010.
26 August 2010
Celebrate food this September at the Gourmet Greystones Event ~ a celebration of the restaurants, cafes and gourmet food outlets in the award winning coastal town of Greystones, Co Wicklow.
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Boardwalk Bar & Grill Wine Tasting Evening
26 August 2010
The Boardwalk Bar and Grill will be having their next Wine Tasting Dinner on September 14 with wines from Montgras, Chile.
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Support Your Local Restaurants & Food Suppliers
24 August 2010
Some restaurants have that happy knack of really slotting in to community life and almost feel like a home from home! Two restaurants which I re-visited recently spring to mind, one is relatively new, the other has been there for the long haul. Both give
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For Pet Lovers
23 August 2010
I have two adored Siamese Cats - Bobby Dazzler and Bruno - and I am lucky that when I travel my two sons who live at home also adore them but not everyone is so lucky and they have to find a good place to board them....
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ROUGH GUIDE TO TEAROOMS
19 August 2010
Whilst in recent years we have all been overwhelmed with Lattes and Skinny Lattes, Cappuccinos, and Mochas, the fact of the matter is what do we really want when we are tired and stressed, or when something suddenly happens, but that old refreshing and r
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Wolfe's - Restaurant Review
19 August 2010
The foodie buzz words are organic, local, seasonal, and artisan produce, and that is all very admirable, but it all depends on what you do with it! Wolfe’s Wine & Food Store is on Capel Street.
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - The Elm Tree
13 August 2010
Whizzing along the motorways around the country it is very easy to miss some really great places to eat if you are not a local. In this case I am talking of the N25 Waterford to Cork Road which in the old days went along through Glounthaune. Remarking
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PINOT'S - RESTAURANT REVIEW
12 August 2010
The restaurant scene in Beacon South Quarter in the Sandyford Industrial Estate is perking its head up again! At the tail end of the Tiger, there was a rush of young blood to open restaurants and interior design shops there. However, the walls came tum
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Margaret Browne's Green Barn
10 August 2010
The last three years of Margaret Browne’s life was absorbed, with her usual incredible determination and fighting spirit, in the setting up of her Green Barn Garden Centre, Life Style Store and Café Bistro, on the N25 between Youghal and Killeagh in East
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Woods Restaurant
04 August 2010
Roundwood is a pretty village, high in the hills of Co. Wicklow, much loved by Dubliners and walkers for a day out. We took a trip out recently to visit a new restaurant called Woods, just opened by Marino Monterisi who operates the very successful Bates
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TAPAS, TAPAS, TAPAS - REVIEWED
04 August 2010
Tapas I was getting really tetchy by the time I departed the new Mauzac Tapas Bar in Greystones. Tapas and vino appeals to girls big time on the night out but, at Irish prices, and as a dining concept, these morsels on which Spaniards graze in bars..
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Are You Being Served
03 August 2010
“Are you being served?” was the British TV sitcom, which ran from 1972 to 1985, set in the fictional department store of Grace Brothers, featuring the ultra camp John Inman as Mr. Humphries, Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe ‘Head of the Ladies Department’,
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Celtic Rising at the Burlington Hotel
03 August 2010
So folks, Ireland is getting back to pre-Tiger normality – the Irish Cabaret is back in Dublin with a swing! For nigh on 45 years no visit to Ireland by an American Tourist was complete without a night at the Irish Cabaret but then post milenium we lost t