The Menu: Food trends for 2014

Mystic Menu, once again, lays out some predictions and identifies trends for the coming year in Irish food.

Peter’s palate marks him out for coming year.

Hardly a wet weekend in Pepper Brasserie, in Clontarf, and 22-year-old chef Peter Clifford has been reviewed by five national broadsheets including, of course, The Irish Examiner, a staggering strike rate for someone that young. No doubt, it is his lineage, as son of the late, great Micheal Clifford, that lures the critics, but it’s Peter’s palate and cooking skills that mark him out as a keeper.