The Menu: Gourmet experiences at Castlemartyr Resort and Ballymaloe

Plus: opportunities at the English Market, and American-style soda drinks made in Ireland

Terre restaurant at Castlemartyr Resort

Castlemartyr gourmet treat

With the schoolbags stowed and The Progeny stabled for the summer, it is very much time for The Menu to saddle up Neidín and get on the high roads and byroads of Ireland, the better to put on the nosebag and experience the finest of Irish hospitality.