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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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Posted on Nov 18, 2008 in Eating Out | 1 comment

Carluccio’s Caffè, Dublin

Carluccio’s Caffè, Dublin
On a quick trip to Dublin today and enjoyed a brief visit to Carluccio’s Caffè on Dawson Street. Lots of gorgeous food to look at and buy – including some very presentable Christmas hampers and gifts in luxurious packaging – in the deli area at the front of their premises but we didn’t have...
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Posted on Nov 12, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 0 comments

Jo’Burger for The Dubliner 100 Best Restaurants

Just heard that Jo’Burger in Rathmines – the place that undoubtedly serves the best burger in Dublin and the place of our last meal before we forsook the capital for country life – has been named most popular restaurant by The Dubliner in a public poll. As I write, this year’s The Dubliner...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 2 comments

Ice Cream temptation in Dingle

Have you ever been to Dingle? Despite the best of intentions over the years – and the Husband visiting there regularly since he moved to Ireland – it’s taken me quite a while to get round to visiting. But, when there’s a pot of Murphys’ Ice Cream at the end of the trip, how can you...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 3 comments

Food in Kenmare

A short trip to Kenmare earlier this week unearthed plenty of good food. Dinner at the Lime Tree was worth waiting for, as we arrived late, stepping into the lively, convivial atmosphere of the restaurant from a cold, damp night. There was plenty to choose from on the menu but my eye didn’t go too far...
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Posted on Jun 30, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 5 comments

Taste of Cork

Although clouds threatened, the sun shone continued to shine all day on Sunday at the inaugural Taste of Cork as crowds gathered to eat and drink in the atmospheric surroundings of the Cork City Gaol. What would the former inmates have thought if they looked out the bars of their windows at the thousands of...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 2 comments

Green Saffron at Ballyvolane House

Thursday night we spent at a sumptuous banquet of Indian food from Green Saffron in a marquee on the lawn of the elegant Ballyvolane House. We were treated to an assortment of curries made with Green Saffron spice blends, served on fragile-looking yet surprisingly long-lasting leaf plates, and accompanied by...
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Posted on May 18, 2008 in Do, Eating Out, Travel | 0 comments

Sunny birth days

The perfect birthday? Take a day off work – this is always nicest if done midweek! – and book a night away in Gort na Nain, a vegetarian guesthouse near Nohoval outside Cork city, run by the welcoming Lucy Stewart and Ultan Walsh, vegetable growers and suppliers of vegetables to Café Paradiso,...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 0 comments

The Glebe Gardens, Baltimore

Just heard from a reader that the café at The Glebe Gardens in Baltimore is well worth a visit. Liz writes: “Just wanted to let you know of a café I happened upon last weekend. It is the Glebe Café, in Baltimore, West Cork, and it is one to rave about. The produce comes straight from their garden on...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 0 comments

Taste of Cork

With Irish cheeses and handmade terrines, fresh-shucked oysters, champagne and plenty of spiced beef, the launch of the Taste of Cork festival took place last Thursday in the English Market and it’s shaping up to be something well worth checking out. Although I was rather underwhelmed with my...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2007 in Do, Eating Out | 0 comments

Festival of World Cultures

Festival of World Cultures
Just a reminder that the Festival of World Cultures kicks off tonight in Dún Laoghaire. It is taking place all weekend with lots of free music and plenty of good eating. Slow Food has a stand at the Cool Earth eco-fair in the Town Hall so, if you’re interested in learning about SF – and tasting...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2007 in Eating Out | 2 comments

Restaurant Review: Wine Upstairs at Tribeca

Restaurant Review: Wine Upstairs at Tribeca
After discovering a leak in the ceiling of our bedroom in the Dublin flat on Monday and subsequently having to spend the night on the floor in the kitchen, neither the Husband nor myself were in any particular hurry to get back there on Tuesday evening. Heavy rain plus no umbrella (the Husband) and flip...
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