The Menu shall be delivering himself of a few bars of ‘Follow Me Up To Carlow’ as he heads off to the gorgeous Sandbrook House for a Slow Food weekend (Apr 20/21) with an international Slow Food symposium on the Saturday, ‘How Can We Learn From Our Food Heritage To Create Employment For This Generation?’.

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Blind Tasting

A scene from the very successful Mallow Homes and Garden Show, which has now become a premier show-garden event, featuring permanent displays, free seminars, and rare plant sales.

IT’S THE weekend, I’m scoured, showered and powdered, rightly dickied up for dinner, but I don’t quite know where to settle for my pre-prandial libation in Sandbrook House, a fine old country home built back in the early 1700s on the Carlow-Wicklow border.