The Menu has nothing but admiration for those restaurateurs battling bravely onwards through fiscally fraught times but shudders at the nervelessness required on the part of some of Cork’s finest establishments participating in Cork Midsummer Festival’s Eat the Street (June 21-29).

Ross Lewis

The weather gods are set to look favourably on tomorrow’s highlight of the fifth annual Waterford Festival of Food, with thousands expected to flood into the streets of Dungarvan to sample the best in artisan fare.

Thousands of foodies are expected in Dungarvan this weekend as the fifth Waterford Festival of Food celebrates the best of local artisan food producers.

An award-winning food blogger and writer will return from her adopted home in London to her native Dungarvan next month to help showcase the best of local food and pass on some of her expertise.

TWO kayakers lost their lives at a dangerous weir where lifesaving equipment had been damaged by vandals and was not replaced, a marine casualty investigation revealed.

A NEW batch of students have just arrived from far and wide to start the January 12 week cooking course.

ONE of the country’s best-known food and accommodation critics has panned the proliferation of “ugly and uninteresting” mid-range hotels springing up across the nation.

THE cream rose to the top for the biggest assembly of top chefs and restaurateurs.