News Archive
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Restaurant Review - Jamie's Italian
27 June 2011
Cheryl Cole was not the only one returning from the U.S.A. with a flea in her ear for Jamie Oliver has also had his ‘cough softened’ by the Yanks! But then I guess it’s somewhat of a mammoth task for a Brit to land on the shores of the most powerful nati
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'The Restaurant' at The Wineport - John Healy Special Event
22 June 2011
A crowd of 150 foodies and John Healy fans gathered on Mid Summer night for a special fundraising and awareness night at the fabulous Wineport at Glasson....
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BERNADETTE CROWE'S BAKERY IN SIXMILEBRIDGE
20 June 2011
I could see that none of the cakes I bought in were as nice as those I could make myself. I always had a flair for baking - big apple tarts, brown wholemeal bread - that’s what we were reared on as a lot of people are – soups and stews, bacon an
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PRINCESS DAISY AT BUNRATTY CASTLE & FOLK PARK
20 June 2011
Having departed the good folks of Sixmilebridge we headed to Bunratty Castle & Folk Park, which I had not visited for many many years and it, was a great experience. Bunratty Castle was built in 1425 and was home to the Earls of Thomond. In 1646 it was
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MEET A REAL BEAN AN TI AT BUNRATTY
20 June 2011
This is the brilliant Eileen Clancy who is Bean an Ti at the Golden Vale House at Bunratty Folk Park, who is not only brilliantly entertaining...
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - GORDON RAMSAY AT RITZ-CARLTON
20 June 2011
Ramsay was merrily chopping slices off some poor bull’s penis, bound for a soup, attributing each ‘chop’ to English food critics....
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TOTALLY TIPPERARY FOOD FESTIVAL NEXT SATURDAY 25TH
19 June 2011
Give yourself a great break and a great foodie weekend with the good food producers of Tipperary this coming Saturday at Cloughjordan.
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Lyons Cafe
17 June 2011
Sligo is a very busy town traffic wise and if you are not in the know when it comes to where to head for that really delicious bite to eat, or coffee and scone, after you have visited Yeat’s grave, or just been simply shopping, well let me tell you, Lyons
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FEAR OF FLYING
13 June 2011
Your stomach turns over, your palms sweat, you don’t hear what anyone is saying, you are convinced you have just signed your own death warrant, and that is only when you book your airline ticket! Does that sound familiar to you? I talk of course about
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - BRASSERIE LE PONT
13 June 2011
Brasserie Le Pont is a new restaurant owned by one Michael Kelly and is part of the Fitzwilliam Hall Business Centre. Tucked away in the large basement of a Georgian House on Fitzwilliam Place close to Leeson Street, its entrance belies its size, and it
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Crazy Crab
03 June 2011
‘Tis not very often you leave a restaurant awarding it in your own mind 2 Badges of Distinction-Best Seafood platter in Ireland and Best Value seafood in Ireland. This is how we felt having left the new Crazy Crab Seafood Bistro and Café at Kilmore Quay
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"WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR..."
01 June 2011
What child and adult does not have magical dreams and memories, a desire to live in the fantasy world of the Disneyland Castle where dreams come true, where frogs turn into Princes, where Cinderella arrives to the ball wearing glass slippers, where Snow W
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - MULBERRY GARDEN
01 June 2011
In an episode of the TV Show ‘Frasier’, the irrepressible Crane brothers have a stab at opening a restaurant where, midst first night high jinks, the mythical food critic, Gil Chesterton, arrives blathering “I don’t usually review on first nigh