From restaurant reopenings to new launches - the latest food news with The Menu

Featuring on The Menu this week are some of the top restauranteurs, producers and growers located along the Waterford Way, as well as the expert bakers of Real Bread Ireland.

Patrick Ryan, of Firehouse Bakery and Bread School

As the nation’s hospitality sector continues to stumble back into the metaphorical post-lockdown daylight, things are hotting up with a vengeance down Deise direction with a new Food, The Waterford Way dining trail throughout the county. The Menu is especially excited to try the cooking of new Executive Chef of the Cliff House Hotel, in Ardmore, Ian Doyle, a former WIT student who worked in Dungarvan’s Tannery, while studying, and has gone from that fine start to truly burnish his CV in subsequent years including four as head chef at two-Michelin starred Oaxen Krog, in Stockholm, as well as chef de partie at Noma, and he will be joined by Adam Kavanagh as House Restaurant Head Chef, and Doyle is promising to re-invigorate the menu with some especially fine local, seasonal dining.

Ian Doyle, new executive chef at the Cliff House Hotel, in Ardmore, Co Waterford, foraging on the beach