Weekend Food with Darina Allen: How Ballymaloe creates that award winning dessert trolley

The original idea was simple: Try to do something different, something that celebrates the restaurant world in a new, more relevant and entertaining way, awards from the ground up but it took a whole decade to become a reality. These ground breaking awards celebrate the excellence, integrity and rich culture of the restaurant world.

So with much pomp and ceremony, the inaugural World Restaurant Awards were held at the Palais Brongniart in Paris on February 18, 2019. Ten countries and four continents were represented, in a glitzy, super chic event that celebrated not just the chefs that work their magic with foams, gels, skid marks on plates and liquid nitrogen – instead these awards celebrated many other aspects of the restaurant experience.