Restaurant critic AA Gill has died after a short battle with cancer, it has been announced. He was 62.

Formerly a travel writer - and a person apparently accustomed to excelling in pretty much every area he delves into - British novelist Lawrence Osbourne is something of a throwback to the classic 1930-50 literary period, a time when the likes of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene were in their prime, setting standards few could ever hope to attain, let alone emulate. 

As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the indignities of travel.

A Cork hotel has been named one of the world’s best, according to travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.

There is an aisle? It’s all go, gongs and gills at the fish-mongers’ section of Cork city’s famous food-friendly English Market.

Cork’s most famous country house has hit back at unfavourable reviews from a British journalist.

The Golden Door: Letters to America

STEVIE PARLE burst onto the London food scene in 2009 with his restaurant Dock Kitchen.

EVEN if you don’t read The Sunday Times, you may have heard about the fuss caused by a throwaway paragraph of critic AA Gill’s TV review.

I’VE BEEN backwards and forwards to London a lot recently to work with my long-suffering editor doing the final tweaking on the manuscript of my Forgotten Skills book.

Fiery chef Gordon Ramsay could be in hot water after allegedly clashing with a contestant on the US version of his hit show Hell’s Kitchen.

David Beckham has been named Britain’s best-dressed man ever.

He’s just sooo unstylish – camp Irish comic Graham Norton has been named the worst-dressed man in Britain.