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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 in Do, Eating Out | 8 comments

An afternoon in Dublin… The Bakehouse, Silk Road Cafe, Skinflint

An afternoon in Dublin… The Bakehouse, Silk Road Cafe, Skinflint
…during which I ate creamy, chive-flecked seafood chowder in an large bread bowl (€9.50) at the friendly Bakehouse (6 Bachelors Walk, Dublin). I arrived in the door with a pushchair full of squawking Small Girl - she’s not a fan of late lunches – and the helpful staff were very much...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2012 in Do, Eating Out, Life | 17 comments

Ten years on – and eating around Cork: The Castle, L’Atitude 51° and Gort na Nain

Ten years on – and eating around Cork: The Castle, L’Atitude 51° and Gort na Nain
Early morning, 31 December 2001. That was the moment when I made a decision that set my life on a totally new path. Rather than go home, as planned, to hang out with the Small Sister and Brother for New Years Eve, I made a spur of the moment phone call and headed for Cork to stay with the Sports Editor. As...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2011 in Do, Eating Out | 2 comments

Berlin: Bashful dining

Berlin: Bashful dining
An email conversation with Aoife at I Can Has Cook about her forthcoming trip to Berlin reminded me of the time I spent there with a six-month-old Little Missy while the Husband did his brewing course at VLB Berlin. The undoubted highlight was the night that the Sister and I spent at a Shy Chef dinner...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 in Eating Out, Storecupboard Specials | 8 comments

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu
Eat Only Irish? Why of course, when you can pick up the most amazing Irish buffalo mozzarella in Cork’s English Market. The Real Olive Company stall has just started selling the creamiest balls of mozzarella made using raw milk from a herd of water buffalo which are based on the Lynch farm near...
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Posted on May 5, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Eating Out | 6 comments

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen
Brewers on the Bay was, for me, the beerfest that got away. The Eight Degrees Brewing boys were all present and correct, complete with their well-received Howling Gale Pale Ale, while Little Missy and I stayed with the Schoolfriend, just half-an-hour south from BOTB central, the Olso in Salthill. Plenty of...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 in Eating Out, Life | 4 comments

An antidote to packing? O’Brien Chop House

An antidote to packing? O’Brien Chop House
Moving? I’m over it. Even it if is just out of the cottage for three-and-a-half months while our long, long-awaited extension is being built. Have you any idea how many cookbooks I have to pack up? In that picture is just two of the nine (and still counting) boxes that I’ve filled up so far. The...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2011 in Eating Out, Food Events, IFBA | 6 comments

The best of Inishowen, Irish food – and the IFBA

The best of Inishowen, Irish food – and the IFBA
We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. A simple idea – organising an Irish Food Blogger Association dinner at Harry’s Bar and Restaurant – got out of hand very quickly, in the best possible way. When Kristin got in contact with Donal Doherty in Harry’s to get the ball...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 in Do, Eating Out | 10 comments

Underground dining: Crackbird, Dublin

Underground dining: Crackbird, Dublin
You wait for something to happen on the underground dining scene in Ireland for years – and then they all come along at once. Two weeks ago I wrote about Clonakilty by Candlelight, last week my feature on that plus Lilly Higgins’s Loaves and Fishes Supper Club was broadcast on Lyric fm. Then, on...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2011 in Do, Eating Out | 4 comments

Underground Dining: The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club

Underground Dining: The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club
Blogger Lilly Higgins runs an underground restaurant called the Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and I interviewed her for a feature that was broadcast on Lyric fm’s Culture File last week. As the piece was very short, I couldn’t use very much of her interview but, seeing as there is so much...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 in Eating Out | 0 comments

Tweet to Eat: Electric, Cork

Tweet to Eat: Electric, Cork
Replying to an early tweet from @ElectricCork on Saturday morning about their new lunch menu got us a feast, compliments of the restaurant. We loved: the flavoursome oil that accompanied our bread and olives starter, a HUGE fillet of “sustainable pollock” – our server left us no doubts...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 in Eating Out, Food Events | 2 comments

Beer and curry at O’Brien’s in Lismore

Beer and curry at O’Brien’s in Lismore
Events at O’Brien’s Chop House in Lismore are very well done. Long tables with lots of random strangers (who turn out to be anything but after a few minutes talking), food served family style in large dishes, beer and wine on the tables for self service: it’s all very relaxed, terribly well...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2010 in Eating Out, Travel | 5 comments

A food-orientated Saturday: Green Apron, Sage Café, Wild Honey Inn

A food-orientated Saturday: Green Apron, Sage Café, Wild Honey Inn
Between Little Missy, my work as a freelance journalist and the Husband setting up his own business, it’s not so easy to get away these days. As a result, any time we do head off, there’s as much food packed into the time as possible. Last weekend we waved Little Missy off on her holidays to Nana...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2010 in Eating Out, Travel | 0 comments

Fossil Ridge: wine on the doorstep

Fossil Ridge: wine on the doorstep
While in New Zealand, staying with the Husband’s parents, our nearest café is actually a boutique winery called Fossil Ridge. We pass the small vineyard on our daily walk (sometimes several times a day as the Husband tries to balance lots of eating his mother’s fabulous food with regular...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2009 in Eating Out | 0 comments

Befani’s Mediterranean & Tapas Restaurant, Clonmel

Befani’s Mediterranean & Tapas Restaurant, Clonmel
A quick trip to Clonmel today led to lunch with the Clonmel-Based Cousin, who said that she’d book us into Befani’s Mediterranean & Tapas Restaurant. Never being one to turn down a recommendation from a local, especially one who loves food as much as I do, I was more than happy to meet her...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2009 in Eating Out, Lovely Lunches | 0 comments

Lunch in Cork: Crawford Art Gallery Café

Lunch in Cork: Crawford Art Gallery Café
I’ve had a sneaking fondness for the Crawford Art Gallery Café ever since I spent a Saturday working there while on the Ballymaloe Cookery Course and have returned several times since. The Husband and I were on a rare Saturday trip to Cork at the weekend, made all the hungrier for lunch by some cheese...
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