Café Paradiso serves up success with cookbook

THOSE familiar with Ireland’s most innovative vegetarian restaurant will know just how good a chef Denis Cotter is. Even the most committed carnivores salivate at the fare on offer in Café Paradiso, the restaurant he and his wife, Bridget, opened in 1993.

Last week that culinary expertise received international recognition when his book, Paradiso Seasons, won the Best Vegetarian Book in the World Award, beating off stiff competition at the ninth Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Barcelona.

His previous work, the Café Paradiso Cookbook, was published in 1999 to widespread acclaim and already the first print run of Paradiso Seasons has sold out with a reprint in the making.