Sunday Lunch costs €45 per person and includes several set courses but with a choice of mains.

Irish restaurants have done well to win Michelin stars recently, but achieving the coveted award brings a big pressure to retain it, writes Dan Buckley

Ireland has won two of three special awards at the 2020 Michelin star ceremony in London, while a Kinsale,Co Cork restaurant has become one of the three latest Irish eateries to receive the world-famous recognition.

There's been a recent history of hospitality at The Cove, by the Beacon road in West Cork’s Baltimore, exemplified by this home/B&B called the Slipway – but hospitality wasn’t always the flavour of the day.

Work is at an advanced stage on producing what’s hoped will be the world’s finest gin, through a collaboration between a new distillery in West Cork, a number of Michelin-starred chefs and a French company which harvests rare citrus fruits.

Cider from Co Cork is one of the best of the 12,772 entries which were judged over the past 75 days of judging in one of the world’s most coveted food and drink awards, the Great Taste awards.

Ronan O’Gara is still getting his bearings, and no surprise there.

Cork’s landmark Arbutus Lodge is spacious and packed with original features. It is also Pure Cork, writes Tommy Barker.

Irish dance superstar, Michael Flatley, has recorded a special video endorsing his former chef's bid to become the directly elected Mayor of Clonakilty in West Cork.

Aileen Lee profiles ceramicist Helen Ennis.

The Menu is delighted to bring further detail to an item alluded to in last weekend’s column, news of what promises to be one of the highlights of this year’s culinary calendar, a fundraising dinner (April 29) in aid of two Leeside charities, Cork Penny Dinners, recent recipients of the prestigious Irish Food Writers’ Guild social responsibility award, and Cork Simon.

The Paris restaurant scene has sprung back into life. That may sound like a bizarre observation considering its reputation as the gastronomic capital of the world.

The board of French carmaker Renault has named two new leaders to replace industry veteran Carlos Ghosn, who resigned after weeks of detention in Japan.

Ma Jie and Kae Inoue Carlos Ghosn’s arrest is triggering a reckoning at the Japanese carmaker he once saved from near bankruptcy, with Nissan reviewing its global operations and relationships with key dealers as part of an expanding investigation into the car titan’s alleged misdeeds.

Want to start a Zero Food Waste challenge in your home? Darina Allen has all you know to know – leftovers will be a thing of the past.

FoodCloud Hubs is an internationally acclaimed-Irish social enterprise that has pioneered the redistribution of surplus or ‘waste’ food from retailers to local charities, beginning with its first distribution centre in Little Island, in Cork, and they have just launched the third national hub, in Oranmore, in Galway.

FOR some deeply banal reason — as it doesn’t involve immediate rendition flights to tropical climes, far from November’s draining grey torpor — we find ourselves in the environs of Cork airport on two consecutive days.

The addition of three new restaurants to the Irish Michelin portfolio elevated interest in the international food guide’s prestigious accolade.

I was in Copenhagen, the capital of the Nordic food scene, to attend the MAD Food Symposium and The World Food Summit. Both were inspirational.

Got a dilemma? No problem! Ask Audrey has all the answers.

ACCORDING to the cliché, records are meant to be broken. But given the limits of human ability or physics, there are some that may never be.

Although second spot was snatched away on the final stage, Ballylickey’s Keith Cronin was satisfied with third place on his debut in the PCRS Hyundai i20 R5 on the Pirelli Rally, the opening round of the Prestone MSA British Rally Championship in Carlisle.

Cork’s Keith Cronin will debut a different car in the British Rally Championship as he bids to equal the legendary Jimmy McCrae as a five-time winner of the series.

Cork driver and four-time British Rally Champion Keith Cronin will campaign the new generation Hyundai i20 R5-N in this year’s British Rally Championship that includes rounds of the World Rally Championship (Wales Rally GB) and the European Rally Championship (Rally Ypres).

London is right up there with New York and San Francisco, vying for the title of top food capital in the world.

How a person balances commitment and ambition with the always high cost of sustaining success is a defining characteristic. Not all of us get this relationship right early in life. We have to wait for the wisdom of age to sort the wheat from the chaff; for maturity to draw the ruthlessness from ambition. Some of us, happy on the couch, never engage in the process and regard almost any price as too high.

Kevin Markham looks at a broad range of potential Christmas gifts for golfers...

It is gradually becoming unacceptable to pollute for free and pass the bill on to future generations. Some 40 countries are now putting a price on carbon pollution, write Catherine McKenna and Feike Sijbesma

With Michael Roddy’s Michelin guide to the best restaurants in hand, this made for the ultimate gastro tour. 

Irish tyre dealers can now roll out a personalised website in just two hours with the help of Michelin Click2Sell — described as a flexible “website in a box” that helps dealerships build their online presence.

Leslie Williams experiences Ireland’s oldest distillery – Bushmills in Antrim. Plus he visits the top tourist sites along the way.

A drive through Joshua Tree National Park in California in some of the latest supercars on the planet, with just the sun and the open road to contend with — seems pretty implausible wouldn’t you say?

Timely news for Irish motorists is the announcement by Michelin of its plans to expand its range of summer tyres with winter capabilities with the introduction of CrossClimate+ fitments, built to offer improved traction on snow-covered roads.

An all-new Peugeot 5008 will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show this month.

In this week’s Q&A, Kehlan talks with Maushmi Arun co-founder of Twisted restaurant in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Working alongside her co-founder Christoph Moreau, Twisted has quickly gained a reputation as one of Ireland’s finest restaurants.