Savouring the taste of Ireland: My best meals from across the country in 2022

Following a year of dining at the country's best tables, Joe McNamee on his best meals of 2022

From Cork and Dublin to Galway and Waterford —Joe McNamee has had some great meals in 2022.

There are days and evenings when the last thing I want to do is go “out to work”, but, unlike most other professions, I rarely moan in public about my lot, a large portion of my work being most people’s idea of sheer, unadulterated pleasure, travelling the country and putting on the nosebag in some of the finest restaurants in the land; to cavil would be akin to complaining that my diamond shoes are pinching a tad at the heel.

And while there are evenings when I’m loath to leave the comfort of my own always well-stocked table to head out into a cold, wintery night, even worse is when I’m settled happily in a restaurant, only for things to start going wrong, whether on the plate or with the service or, worse, a perfect storm of both.