The Menu: Family-friendly dining, artisan sourdough and the perfect BBQ selection

Plus an adult take on the popular 'slush puppy'

The Wicklow Escape is offering an al fresco Sunday lunch experience for the duration of the summer.

Growing Food in the City

Another event from Crawford Art Gallery’s ongoing Meat and Potatoes exhibition and series of workshops and events, Growing Food in the City, features Erin O’Brien and Brian McCarthy, both featuring at the Grub Circus food stage, at All Together Now in Waterford this weekend, and the estimable Maria Young, also well known to The Menu. Erin, of Cork Urban Soil Project (www.urbansoilproject.com), Maria (coordinator of Green Spaces for Health and the Cork Food Policy Council), and Brian (Cork Rooftop farm) will be getting down and dirty (in a very soil-friendly way!) to discuss the urban growing and farming, an increasingly essential consideration in these challenging times.