The Menu: Plans for a traditional Burns night scuppered — but you can still have a super supper

And you have to try Ben’s Lockdown Loaf — a real workhorse loaf inspired by the large loaf his grandfather would buy once a week to feed himself for the next seven days

Neil Grant, General Manager of the Celtic Ross Hotel, in Rosscarbery, in West Cork, gearing up for yet another Burns Night Supper, celebrating Robbie Burns, the world-renowned Scottish Poet

Burns Night feast

The Menu is always happy to acknowledge the Scottish side of his mixed Celtic heritage, most particularly on Burns Night (January 25) — the annual celebration of the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Last year, The Menu hosted a particularly rambunctious affair despite being in deepest lockdown, rousing attendant members of his immediate family and a few digital delinquents on Zoom with his stirring address to the Haggis on foot of a wonderful finish-at-home Burns Meal Kit from the Celtic Ross Hotel — a performance that was wonderfully received until at least the second line.