News Archive
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Ode to Italy - Eileen Dunne & Stefano Crescenzi
31 October 2011
Sunday October 30 2011 'IF IT'S for you, it won't pass you by" is an old saying that certainly seems to have been the case with Eileen Dunne, and Stefano Crescenzi, who not only met and fell in love in a somewhat roundabout way but who revolutionised t
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Restaurant Review - Oriental Cafe
31 October 2011
Tabletalk We were almost elated sitting down in the new Oriental Café by the Yamamori restaurant owners in the former Bewley’s Oriental Café premises in South Great George’s Street. Here at last it seemed was the perfect, nay obvious, match for this
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Restaurant Review - Weafer & Cooper
27 October 2011
Glasthule Village in South County Dublin has had a real awakening with the arrival of Weafer & Cooper, an all day modern Italian style eatery, very much along the lines of Jamie Oliver’s ‘Jamie’s Italian’ neighbourhood restaurants which are opening apace
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CHECK OUT HALLOWEEN & MID TERM BREAKS
27 October 2011
Halloween Breaks 2011 With Halloween and the Midterm Break approaching the evenings are closing in fast but it is still a time of year that gives us bright crisp days with golden autumnal leaves and is, as our American cousins say, perfect for a‘Fall..
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - The Spires & Thomas Moore Tavern
21 October 2011
Extravaganza is certainly not dead in Wexford if The Spires restaurant is anything to go by. All it needed was Joan Collins to waft through the doors in a cloud of big hair, shoulder pads, furs, and Dynasty jewels, and take up residence in the button back
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3 MEN AND A BOTTLE OF SPIRITS
20 October 2011
JUST what is it about men in threes? Down through the centuries, we've had the Three Musketeers, Three Men in a Boat, Three Men in a Tub, Three Men And a Baby... And continuing that tradition, right here in Ireland, in the pretty...
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RESTAURANT - REVIEW - GUINNESS STOREHOUSE
20 October 2011
Tabletalk “I’ve just got off a plane this morning and headed to the Guiness Storehouse otherwise my friends back in New York would never speak to me again.”So said a young scientist here for a three day conference in Trinity College as he supped his pi
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - THE SPIRES, WEXFORD.
12 October 2011
Extravaganza is certainly not dead in Wexford if The Spires restaurant is anything to go by. All it needed was Joan Collins to waft through the doors in a cloud of big hair, shoulder pads, furs, and Dynasty jewels, and take up residence...
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35 Years of Kinsale Gourmet Festival
11 October 2011
Today sees the culmination of the 35th Kinsale Gourmet Festival -- an idea that was started out way back in 1976 by a group of enterprising restaurateurs and hoteliers and which has become one of the longest running food festivals in the country
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Ireland's Cafe Culture
11 October 2011
Cafes and bakeries have been doing very well in these times, especially those combined with bakeries because people find the alluring aroma of freshly baked breads and cakes irresistible. We have a very special relationship with the cafes...
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MICHELIN STARS & BIBS 2012
06 October 2011
Here is the list of Michelin Star Holders for 2012 - no change on 2011. Michelin Bibs has one new addition and two who have lost their Bibs! Picture shown was at The Box Tree!
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - WHITEFRIAR GRILL
04 October 2011
Despite the recession, restaurants are opening apace and you have to commend people for their enterprise. Indeed, it seems the heat had barely left the kitchen at Conrad Gallagher’s former Salon des Saveurs premises on Aungier Street, than a new boy was
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Gourmet Food Parlour Malahide
04 October 2011
Lorraine Heskin and Lorraine Byrne are two young ladies with a passion for delicious food of which they have an extraordinary knowledge. They opened their first Gourmet Food Parlour on Cumberland Street in Dun Laoire, not far from where I live in 2006.