News Archive
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - El Toro Bravo
10 April 2012
El Toro Bravo is a new tapas spot on Dublin’s South Richmond Street. With a long bar counter, cigar brown tongue and groove woodwork, and wine stacked shelves, it has all the feel of a long standing little bar down a side street in Palma, where locals..
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Breakfast Like a King
09 April 2012
EASTER Sunday is the perfect day to indulge in a super- duper breakfast to fortify you for all that Easter egg hunting with the kids! "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper" is sage advice.
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Restaurant Review - The Kitchen Restaurant Mount Falcon
09 April 2012
Irish produce and French heart combine at Mount Falcon to create a piece of 'Upstairs Downstairs' bliss, says Lucinda O'Sullivan, who revels in some of the country's finest food amid Gothic splendour
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Seven Social
05 April 2012
There are people who just have the knack of creating a really good eatery and make it seem like it is no bother. They dish up really good food that has flavour and taste, is satisfying and filling, good and delicious. You know it involves a lot of hard
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - A BRACE OF CORK GOODIES
03 April 2012
The restaurant that undoubtedly made the overall biggest impact on the face of Cork dining is this year celebrating its 20th Anniversary in May.
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SPRING FOOD FESTIVALS
02 April 2012
WE are facing into a spring / summer of more food festivals around the country than ever before. This is really fantastic for many reasons...
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Las Rada
30 March 2012
If there is one thing that Jules and Joanne Bradbury know how to do really successfully it is to create a relaxed casual restaurant with great atmosphere that people feel they are part of and want to return to time and time again for their regular nights
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River Restaurant at Limerick Strand Hotel - Tasting Dinner
29 March 2012
The River Restaurant at Limerick Strand Hotel and Nash Wines have teamed up for an exclusive dining experience showcasing local produce matched with amazing wines by Gregory Barbet from Loron et Fils in Beaujolais, France. All produce used will be source
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Restaurant Review - 777
28 March 2012
Some so-called hip eateries have a real attitude nowadays. Many of them have a list of conditions before they agree to accept my dosh, and it certainly never gets me off to a great start to be told, as I was when I went to book 777...
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat
24 March 2012
Isabel’s is a bijou in a bijoux less world these days. Tiny and classy, it is located in the basement that first housed Derry Clarke’s L’Ecrivain many years ago and also saw off the start of
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Restaurant Review - Bear
23 March 2012
Restaurant review: Lucinda O'Sullivan is accused of being 'bizarre' after complaining to Joe Macken Restaurant trendsetter Joe Macken should spend less time tweeting and more time training his staff, says Lucinda O'Sullivan, who is accused of being 'biza
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat
16 March 2012
The Dining Room at La Stampa has had a number of celebrity chefs featuring there over the past few years,
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Dave's Pizzas
12 March 2012
Dave's Wood-Fired Pizza Co will be a familiar sight to many who frequent the lunchtime food markets of Dublin. These are not the great big lumpy doughy pizzas that have been slammed of late as being one of the biggest sins of all when it comes to calori
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Restaurant Review - El Toro Bravo & The Black Cat
12 March 2012
Antony Worrall Thompson hit the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons, a far cry from thirty years ago when he started Ménage a Trois, a restaurant serving only starters and desserts, which became a favourite eatery of the ménage a trois..
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat
12 March 2012
We got married in St. Mullin’s, a tiny village in South Carlow, and spent the first night of our honeymoon in White’s Hotel in Wexford. That was in the old days, and the funniest part of the whole event was that the Bridesmaid got a double bed, the Best
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Niamh Browne knows the score when it comes to both people and hostel management, writes Lucinda O'Sullivan
06 March 2012
WITH a music teacher for a mother, music has been Niamh Browne's life since she was a child, and has been her saving grace in difficult and tragic....
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - ISABEL'S
06 March 2012
She may have needed her trusty torch to make out what was on the menu at Isabel's, but, low lighting aside, Lucinda O'Sullivan was utterly charmed by this sparkling new treasure on Baggot Street
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Black Pig in Donnybrook
27 February 2012
I think we could safely say that from the start of the package holiday in the 1960’s holidays to Spain were best known for sun, sea, sand and sex! Food and fun to the tourist was limited in their mind to paella, Sangria, followed up with a good belt of..
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EDIBLE AT SCIENCE GALLERY TCD & MODERNIST CUISINE
22 February 2012
EDIBLE/MODERNIST CUISINE Did you know that in Ireland we consume on average over 400 grams per day of beer against the world average of around 80 grams per day. On the good side we apparently also consume over 200 grams per day of oranges against the
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Restaurant Review - Two Little Crackers
22 February 2012
I am writing this review on a Saturday evening, having failed to secure a table in a number of Dublin restaurants. Well, perhaps I could have had a table if I was prepared to play the two-sittings game -- 6pm or 9pm -- or sit in the upstairs function r
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Designing Women Are Jewels of the Downturn
13 February 2012
FROM time immemorial jewellery has always had a fascination for people. It is the ultimate declaration of love, as we saw recently with the auction of Elizabeth Taylor's fabulous jewels, including the famous 33.19-carat diamond ri
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Restaurant Review - Pearl Brasserie
13 February 2012
'How would you like to be, down by the Seine with me? Oh what I'd give for a moment or two, under the bridges of Paris with you." So goes the romantic song crooned by the sultry Eartha Kitt. We can't all be under the bridges of Paris at the drop of a hat
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Two Industrious Self Starters -A Soapmaker & Linen Producer
06 February 2012
I never cease to be in awe of the number of brilliant people who have the 'get up and go' to start their own business. As seen at the recent Showcase
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Restaurant Review - Cinnamon, Ranelagh
06 February 2012
How difficult can it be to process an order for two starters and two main courses? It seemed all too much, says Lucinda O’Sullivan, for the staff at Cinnamon. A shame, as the food was good
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Trim Castle Hotel
03 February 2012
The lush wonderful lands of Co. Meath are aptly named the Royal County for they have attracted the great and the good down through the centuries including Empress Elizabeth of Austria, a noted beauty about whom the romantic movies ‘Sissi’ were made....
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Born of the Earth but Heavenly in Inspiration
31 January 2012
Tony and Jackie Collins were not deterred in any way by the times we are in when they developed and opened their big new Red Earth Lifestyle....
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Restaurant Review - I Return to the China Sichuan
31 January 2012
When you return to a place where you have previously had a bad experience and reported on it, there is an element of stepping into the dragon's den. You know that they are on edge when they see you, and I guess it is not a very comfortable experience a
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Restaurant Review - Pop Up Pyg
27 January 2012
Sex and the City seemed alive and well at Pop Up Pyg in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre as I observed a pair of Carrie Bradshaw lookalikes engrossed in themselves and one or 10 cosmopolitans each. There was nothing for it but for Mary and I to enter i
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Brasserie Le Pont
20 January 2012
Brasserie Le Pont is a new restaurant tucked away in the large basement of a Georgian House on Fitzwilliam Place close to Leeson Street. Its entrance belies its size, and a lot of dosh has been spent converting it into a modern brasserie of the neutral
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Bedlam
19 January 2012
Bedlam is the name of May Frisby’s fabulous ‘happening’ in Castle Market. I guess if I said her restaurant was bedlam she mightn’t be too happy but, as she has named it so herself, let me say it is organised buzzy bedlam with rather good food and a fun
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Restaurant Review - San Lorenzo's
17 January 2012
Temple Garner is the Godfather of New York style Modern Italian food! Having been originally at Il Primo, and the defunct Mermaid Café on Dame Street, Garner opened the New York style Modern Italian cuisine restaurant Town Bar
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MY NEW WHEAT FREE REGIME
16 January 2012
A lot of people have expressed interest in my wheat free regime and what I am eating. I don’t call it a diet because I am eating plenty of other foods. There is no simple answer to giving up wheat – it’s a bit like an addiction and you just have to go ‘
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Restaurant Review - Salt@ Avoca - Monkstown
09 January 2012
The much-awaited opening of Avoca's new Food Market and Cafe in Monkstown came to pass in time for Christmas, and had the denizens of the borough eagerly jostling for parking places in fear of Dun Laoghaire Corporation's dreaded team of parking wardens..
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MY NEW WHEAT FREE LIFE
09 January 2012
Having tried all kinds of weight-loss regimes, Lucinda O'Sullivan found giving up her morning toast worked.
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Corfu Greek Restaurant
05 January 2012
The sight of two olive trees and a perky canopy blowing in the wind tunnel that was Parliament Street, running up from the River Liffey to Dublin Castle, on a cold winter evening proved very attractive as we dashed in search of sustenance. It was early e
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Ard na Sidhe
03 January 2012
One of the most intriguingly beautiful areas in Ireland is tucked away off the beaten track around Caragh Lake on the Ring of Kerry. Just south of Killorglin this magnificent lake is four miles long and surrounded by heather hills, forests, and exotic
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THE LUCINDAS 2011
02 January 2012
IT'S been a year of value menus and early birds, pop ups and pop offs, bloggers and blaggers. My annual awards are a reflection of a colourful dining year for all of us. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Lucindas 2011!