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The Menu currently has top milliner Philip Treacy banged up in his garden shed with a bowler hat, a bucket of glue and a couple of airfix model boats. What, says you? Is The Menu preparing to eat his own hat? Not a bit of it — The Menu has in fact set his eyes on first prize for most original seafaring hat competition at the Cork Food Week Pirate Gourmet Trail on Aug 4, just one of the diverting sideshows at what promises to be a tremendous gastronomic voyage around Leeside, although a trifle landlocked for true mariners. Four venues host the fruits of 16 of Cork’s top chefs and restaurants, kicking off with a champagne reception at 11.30am (a little late for The Menu, but what the heck!), followed by a day of wining, dining and treasure hunting around the city before fetching up in The Bodega for an evening’s entertainment. www.corkfoodweek.com
