Hilary Fennell meets TV presenter and Chef Takashi Miyazaki.

Ideally, any newly-opened restaurant should hit its marks from day one; surely it shortchanges customers to do otherwise? That said, I have always thought it only fair to allow a grace period for ‘bedding in’ before reviewing any new arrival. So why, oh why, am I reviewing Restaurant Chestnut on its opening night? asks Joe McNamee.

Clodagh Finn meets the irrepressible ‘Chef Adrian’ who is on a mission to steer the country away from a costly dependence on fast food by showing us how to cook healthier, cheaper alternatives.

Chef Adrian Martin says that the reason why he’s so skinny is that he cooks everything himself from scratch.

Catex — Ireland’s largest food service and hospitality exhibition — returns once more to Dublin’s RDS, on February 21-23. 

Where to eat, sleep and drive Ferraris in Italy’s of-the-moment culinary capital, Modena. Nikki Elstein has the insie tips you need to know before you travel.

Brass clocks and grey sofas are all part of the mix chosen by Esther N McCarthy.

Accomplished  in their  respective fields now, it was a rocky start for Mary McEvoy, Neven Maguire, and Emily Hourican, writes Olivia Kelleher

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Sam Donnelly from Sam’s Barbers giving Chef Neven Maguire a hot towel shave for Fovember, farmers grow for Movember to raise awareness in mens health in the farming community at the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co. Laois.

Terra Nova Gardens, Dromin, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, are having their last open day of 2015 on Sunday, August 30, from 2pm to 6pm.

Top Spin, trained locally by Colm Murphy, appeals in the Chef Phelim Byrne The Ivy Room Handicap Hurdle in Wexford tonight.

Biting back: Dinosaurs may be extinct but they are alive and well in Tayto Park, which opened its doors for its fifth season yesterday (March 26). 

The annual Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards, in Dublin’s Michelin-starred L’Ecrivain, is invariably one of the finer beanos in the culinary calendar, with Chef Derry Clarke always putting on an exceedingly fine nosebag, each course based on the produce of a particular award winner.

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The Menu is an awful man for dipping into his progeny’s future college fund to blow it all on gastronomic goodies and few spots are more tempting than Urru Culinary Store, in Bandon.

Over the past 12 months, there has been a quiet transformation on the streets of Cork with a host of new eateries opening for business. John Daly meets the men transforming the city.

Alpine skier Conor Lyne will lead a five-strong Ireland team to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month.

House Café at Cork Opera House,

The magical world of the gastronomical lab can render taste buds stunned, says Joe McNamee, but is it really where the future of food lies?

Crabs probably feel pain and take action to avoid it, according to new academic research.

Ireland's most successful Paralympic team ever touched down tonight with 16 medals en tow, receiving a rapturous reception from the thousands of well-wishers at Dublin Airport.

Cian O'Connor has said it is "time to move on" from the controversy surrounding his performance at the Athens Olympics.

WESTMEATH boxer Joe Ward will learn this morning if a last minute appeal to make the Ireland team for the Olympic Games was successful.

WHIPPING the dome off a new, blacker-than-black Weber grill, Chef Derry Clarke says “everybody thinks a barbecue is just a barbecue. It’s not”.

In 1962, in response to escalating hostilities between North and South Vietnam, allies of Russia and America respectively, President John F Kennedy authorised the creation of the Navy SEALs.

The acclaimed Augustine’s restaurant in Cork city is closing down despite its renown among critics and customers.

A CATERING assistant who alleged she was assaulted, bullied and harassed at work has settled a damages claim of €38,000 for an undisclosed sum in the Circuit Civil court.

IT IS almost certain the Olympic Torch will visit Ireland next year for the first time in the history of the Games.

Drunken Sailor came with a strong run on the far rail to pip Harris Tweed in a thrilling race for the Coutts Glorious Stakes at Goodwood today.

TWENTY YEARS ago, anyone who was anyone in food went to France.

HIGH-STREET butchers have bucked the recession to emerge as the most resilient sector of Ireland’s service industry.

IT’S AN ill wind that doesn’t blow someone some good. Even the volcanic ash has benefited some people – the mâitre d’hotel at Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant in Padstow was beaming from ear to ear when I was there recently.

'X Factor' winner Joe McElderry will today find out if he has come out on top in the battle for the UK Christmas number one single.

Rage Against The Machine have retained their lead in the race to the Christmas number one ahead of 'X Factor' star Joe McElderry in the biggest seasonal chart battle for a decade, new figures showed today.

Chef Gino D’Acampo is looking forward to life back in civilisation after being crowned King of the Jungle in the final of 'I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!'.

Katie Price was today gearing up for yet another Bushtucker Trial on 'I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!', but this time she will be partnered with a fellow contestant.

Chef Jamie Oliver is now as green as his rocket salads – after creating what is thought to be the world’s first carbon-neutral TV travel series, it was announced today.

WALKING across the busy road outside the Royal Dublin Society complex in Ballsbridge was not for the fainthearted yesterday.

A LEADING Irish Sports Council official has lashed out at criticism from Olympic Council of Ireland’s Chef de Mission, Dermot Henihan, describing the comments as ill-timed and inappropriate.

Isaac Hayes apparently died of a stroke, police officials said tonight.

THIS wasn’t in the script. Ireland’s lightweight rowers were supposed to sail through to the Olympic semi-finals on Thursday with their heavier brethren set for the roundabout repechage route.