Food&Drink Restaurant Reviews

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Restaurant review: Cafe Velo, Cork

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Restaurant review: Star Anise, Cork city

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Restaurant review: The Saddle Room, Dublin 2

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Restaurant review: Budd's, Ballydehob, Co Cork

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Restaurant review: Old Town Chinese Restaurant, Dublin 1

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Restaurant review: Good Things, Skibbereen, Cork

Restaurant review: The Burren Storehouse, 'Kieran's Kitchen', Co Clare

The Burren Storehouse opened earlier this year. It is strictly a casual dining spot where the menu changes daily.

Sat, 13 Aug, 2016

Restaurant review: The Woodford, Cork

The Woodford could easily become what it should be, one of the city centres very best venues for meeting, eating and drinking.

Sat, 06 Aug, 2016

Restaurant review: The Idle Wall, Co Mayo

WESTPORT is one of those towns that everyone in Ireland has visited, and if they haven’t they are probably planning on doing so (and if this isn’t the case then they should get onto it right away).

Sat, 30 Jul, 2016

Restaurant review: The Café at Stephen Pearce Pottery Shanagarry, Co Cork

Some months ago, a great comrade, GB, steered me in the direction of what he promised was a mighty fine dining establishment indeed. 

Sat, 23 Jul, 2016

Restaurant review: Forest and Marcy, Dublin 4

I HAVE no anecdote for you this week, just another tale of a great meal and the best of all complaints — I now have to re-order my ever-expanding list of great places to eat. 

Sat, 16 Jul, 2016

Restaurant review: Sage, The Courtyard, Midleton, Co Cork

Sage is a select band of Irish restaurants determinedly questing for that elusive modern Irish cuisine in the manner prescribed by Redzepi. 

Sat, 09 Jul, 2016

Restaurant review: The Exchequer, Dublin 2

Sat, 02 Jul, 2016

Restaurant review: Palmento

Palmento is a delightful and welcoming haven in Douglas.

Sat, 25 Jun, 2016

Restaurant review: Brioche Restaurant, Dublin 6

Brioche Restaurant, 51a Elmwood Avenue Lower, Ranelagh, Dublin 6; tel: 01-4979163

Sat, 18 Jun, 2016

Restaurant review: Feed Your Senses

Feed Your Senses (Alimenta Tus Sensidos)  

Sat, 11 Jun, 2016

Restaurant review: Boqueria, Dublin 7

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016

Restaurant review: Twisted, Kinsale, Cork

The problem with being first out of the blocks in a long distance event, particularly when you set off at an impossibly blistering pace, is rivals will eventually catch up. 

Sat, 28 May, 2016

Restaurant review: Locks, Dublin 8

FOR some reason, Irish cities and towns rarely make the best use of their waterways, either ignoring them or turning their backs. 

Sat, 21 May, 2016

Restaurant review: Diva Boutique Café and Bakery, Ballinspittle, Co Cork

Sat, 14 May, 2016

Restaurant review: Gaillot and Gray, Dublin 2

Sat, 07 May, 2016

Restaurant review: The Food Depot Gourmet Street Kitchen, Cork

All over the world, some of the most wonderful dining experiences are to be had from street vendors. 

Sat, 30 Apr, 2016

Restaurant review: Cavern Wine Bar, Dublin 4

THERE’S a question I get asked a lot — which is more important to you, food or wine?

Sat, 23 Apr, 2016

Restaurant review: Holy Smoke, Cork

Holy Smoke is the latest such venture, with talented young Kerry chef John Relihan, formerly head chef of Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa restaurant in London, at the helm.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Restaurant review: Osteria Lucio, Dublin 2

FEW of us eat out for purely sustenance reasons. These days, we do so for pleasure. 

Sat, 09 Apr, 2016

Restaurant review: Loam, Galway

First, a caveat, for this is one of the most ‘rigorous’ reviews I shall ever submit, having worked in the kitchens of Loam for two days prior to dining. 

Sat, 02 Apr, 2016

Restaurant review: Pickle's, Dublin 2

In this centenary year, I’ve found myself thinking about British colonialism and whether there is anything good to be said about it. 

Sat, 26 Mar, 2016

Restaurant review: Les Gourmandises, Cork

Outside of Dublin, it is a while since I’ve ‘worked’ so hard for a Friday night restaurant booking.

Sat, 19 Mar, 2016

Restaurant review: Klaw, Dublin 1

Sat, 12 Mar, 2016

Restaurant review: Ali's Kitchen, Cork

As restaurants are to my belly, so bookshops are to my brain, I love both equally and there are even times when one will do the job of the other. 

Sat, 05 Mar, 2016

Restaurant review: Aniar, Co Galway

I’VE got to come clean, I did not expect to enjoy this meal — boy was I wrong. 

Sat, 27 Feb, 2016

Restaurant review: Canteen, Co Limerick

Down through the years, whether at home or abroad, I have always taken the ‘local temperature’, in a manner of speaking, by making a trip to a native barber.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016

Restaurant review: Pearl Brasserie

THE art of lunch has taken a serious battering in recent years. Lunch was ‘for wimps’ we were told in the 1980s but nobody ever believed that, and when I began working in Dublin in the 1990s it was high quality lunches that made me excited about restaurants.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2016