The Menu: casting an eye upon the culinary crystal ball for 2024

"...speaking to many professionals in the industry in recent times, there is much fear about what’s in store for ’24..."

Ahmet Dede and Maria Archer from The Customs House, Baltimore. Picture: Miki Barlok

Once again, Mystic Menu takes out his edible crystal ball to make his predictions for the food world in 2024.

Last January, he predicted a Michelin star for Terre and a second for Dede at the Customs House — which duly came to pass — and he also expressed his sneaking suspicion that Andy Ferreira and Richard Evans’ then fresh-out-of-the-box Paladar cocktail bar and restaurant, in Cork city, would land with a bang — especially when awards season rolled around last August, at the Irish Bar Awards.