The Menu is in the full throes of festival fever and first port of call is the Galway International Oyster Festival (Sept 25-27).

The new Kilkenny Cookery School has just been opened by wife-and-husband chef team, Mary and Neil McEvoy. 

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

Rave and shine! Yawn-busting breakfast raves could become a regular feature on the streets of Cork after the first Good Morning Cork event was deemed a huge success.

Almost 100 people attended an alcohol-free early-morning rave and live music concert on the streets of Cork this morning.

Almost 100 people attended an alcohol-free early-morning rave and live music concert on the streets of Cork this morning.

The Rocketman has come back to earth — but will continue to do the satellite orbits of farmers markets, along Cork’s Ring Road.

WE RECENTLY celebrated 30 years of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

A feast of fine foods down on the farm

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MIDWAY through every 12-week certificate course at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, we all pile onto a bus and go on a foodie tour.

While the pre-theatre dinner is a great boon to the restaurateurs, The Menu confesses to finding such dining to be overly rushed so is much taken with the Ballyvolane House solution, whereby the theatre comes to the diners.

THE mid-summer interlude in West Cork over for another year, racing is back to full swing along the coast and this weekend will be particularly hectic in Cork Harbour, with the Royal Cork holding its annual two-day At Home Regatta.

WHITE horses abounded the outer harbour and some gusts reached forty knots during an exciting and sometimes tough final race of the Southmoor Properties March League at Kinsale Yacht Club.