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  • Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Aroi Asian Street Food

    Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Aroi Asian Street Food

    30 May 2014

    Street food is the thing people talk about when they return from the Far East. Those morsels of spicy deliciousness cooked and sold from stalls in markets and on the streets for no more than a few cents. Foodies waffle too about street food in Ireland,

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  • Our Latest Great Place to Eat - An Bhialann

    Our Latest Great Place to Eat - An Bhialann

    28 May 2014

    There is something very enticing, honest and welcoming about the family run An Bhialann restaurant located on the Sandford Road end of Ranelagh’s main drag. In what has become virtually a restaurant village over run with tapas and tasting plates,fast food

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  • The Mary Stanford returns to Ballycotton

    The Mary Stanford returns to Ballycotton

    26 May 2014

    Living beside the port of Dun Laoghaire, my ears always prick up when I hear the distinctive beat of helicopter blades swirling around the area. It very often means that someone is in trouble and the helicopter is trying to spot them in conjunction with

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  • Restaurant Review - Exchequer Wine Bar Ranelagh

    Restaurant Review - Exchequer Wine Bar Ranelagh

    26 May 2014

    I could probably sit down every second week and write about an eatery that has "just opened" in Ranelagh. This suburban village, for many years best known for being a Dublin flatland, with launderettes, cheap takeaways, and cafes, morphed into a hot resid

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  • Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Barracuda

    Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Barracuda

    21 May 2014

    If your looking for a restaurant with great food and really great atmosphere then look no further than Barracuda. Located on Bray’s magnificent and ever popular Victorian seafront and with floor to ceiling windows.

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  • THE WORLD'S 50 BEST RESTAURANTS - HOW IT WORKS

    THE WORLD'S 50 BEST RESTAURANTS - HOW IT WORKS

    19 May 2014

    Rene Redzepi recently saw his Noma restaurant in Copenhagen restored to the position of No 1 in the ranks of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, having been knocked off the pillar by Spain's El Celler de Can Roca last year. Now back in the top spot for 2014

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  • 3 to Try - Almost Nationwide

    3 to Try - Almost Nationwide

    19 May 2014

    Something old, something new, here are three restaurants suggestions for you to try around the country.

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  • Restaurant Review - Fiorentina

    Restaurant Review - Fiorentina

    19 May 2014

    Looking out through Venetian blinds at the mighty illuminated portico of Dublin's magnificent City Hall, on a balmy evening, was a mood-raiser in itself.

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  • Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Pizza E Porchetta

    Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Pizza E Porchetta

    16 May 2014

    Ronan Ryan is one of the best-known names in the restaurant industry in Ireland and his forte is modern Italian food, which he is serving up at his new Pizza e Porchetta eatery in spectacular style. P & P is a happening place.

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  • 10 Years Younger!  A Decade of Dining

    10 Years Younger! A Decade of Dining

    13 May 2014

    The cosmetic-surgery TV programme, 10 Years Younger, springs to mind when I think of the last 10 years of dining in Ireland. Since 2004, the restaurant industry has been nipped and tucked, weeded and plucked, resulting in a much tighter and keener ....

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  • 3 Ladies of Kinsalebeg - Food and Craft

    3 Ladies of Kinsalebeg - Food and Craft

    12 May 2014

    WHEN Mary Kay Solomon came to Ireland 11 years ago from the US to work in the computer industry, I doubt she thought she would now be married to an Irishman and living in Killeagh in east Cork, or that she would totally change her career from computers t

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  • 3 to Try - The Spice is Right

    3 to Try - The Spice is Right

    07 May 2014

    We all have a passion for spices and Oriental and Asian food - here are three place you might like to try

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  • Getting the simple things right in the food business

    Getting the simple things right in the food business

    07 May 2014

    THE ‘management meeting of one’ is the hardest meeting there is to have,” says Paul Williams of the uber cool Canteen eatery in Limerick. “Just staring back at yourself in the mirror. There's no one else to point the finger at. It's you, and you alone..

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  • 3 to Try - Diverse Dining

    3 to Try - Diverse Dining

    07 May 2014

    Fancy trying somewhere different to eat - here are three diverse places to try all with something interesting and different to offer.

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  • Restaurant Review - Deep South

    Restaurant Review - Deep South

    07 May 2014

    There's a fine line between being naturally cool and overly contrived. Likewise, there's a fine line between shabby chic and just plain shabby. It felt like the latter when we arrived for lunch at the Deep South Cafe Bar in Cork.

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