As well as being a wonderful restaurateur, running two fine Dublin-based establishments, Cake Café and Slice, The Menu’s weekly colleague Michelle Darmody has always operated above and beyond the base requirements of the industry.

FORAGING. Beware, you can get hooked.

While Mrs Menu informs him that he is not currently in the market for true love and will wind up in traction if he takes to acting otherwise, the feast of St Valentine is nigh upon us and the only route to a man’s heart, through the belly, is a longtime and exceedingly well-worn path for The Menu.

It’s time for a return to the Marble City where Bia Beag are reprising their Meet the Bakers event (January 24). 

THE hottest restaurant ticket this summer wasn’t in Dublin, Cork or even Galway. 

Living Dinners; Henrietta Street, Dublin 1; tel: 087-3874028; Facebook.com/livingdinners