Archive for April, 2008

Nice Wines

April 22, 2008 No Comments

At the interesting Celtic Whiskey shop tasting yesterday picked out some wines I liked very much and you might too. The La Multa Old Vine wines, particularly the Tempranillo, the Garnacha and the Syrah were fantastic value at around a tenner. Lovely easy drinking and a change from the usual suspects. I also liked the ...

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Brownes, Sandymount Green

April 19, 2008 No Comments

Are you as pissed off as I am with the posturings of celebrity chefs? RTE’s recent hype-up of the man from Mint was the final nail in the coffin containing my love affair with TV cookery programmes. Okay, so Zimmerman McRaw or whatever he’s called, is a righteous chef, Michelin star and all that but ...

Restaurant Reviews

Li Jin Yuan

April 19, 2008 No Comments

After a quick pint in The Palace Bar Lefty and I crossed the bridge and sauntered up O’Connell Street past ‘the spike’, surely one of the world’s most incongruous totems. Lefty has this idea, which I think is only brilliant, of getting it officially re-badged as ‘The Milligan Monument’ in time for the centenary of ...

Restaurant Reviews

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Alexis

American business psychologist Warren G. Bennis, described by Forbes magazine as ‘the king of leadership gurus’  is on record...

‘YOU DON’T NEED A POSH CANON” – blogpix for newbies

I’ve been a photo hobbyist since I got given  my first serious camera as a fourteenth birthday present. A...

YOU’LL NEVER BLOG ALONE – the day I discovered I’m a blogger and other stories

There are now over 400 food bloggers in Ireland. Though www.forkncork.com my food and drink website, Ireland’s first, has...

Natural Wine: Dog’s bollocks or the King’s new clothes?

Natural Wine Tasting at Fallon & Byrne, Dublin  by Le Caveau My first encounter with what has come to...

BLOG – variations on a sweet-and-sour theme

I cooked my first sweet and sour dish in 1984. Pork, of course. The recipe came from Ken Hom’s...

BOOK REVIEW Dunne & Crescenzi – The Menu

“We really cook very simply. Remember that the methods and ingredients have been used for generations and in the...

BLOG – 2 good blends tested but why is most coffee in Ireland shit?

  I’ve just been road testing a brace of quality coffees from a small and relatively new Irish supplier,...

That’s Amarone – Masi & Serego Alighieri tasting

Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the Italian province of Verona, east of Lake Garda, ranking as the second...

BLOG – of store cupboards and other matters

Yesterday I set out to clean out my store cupboard – well, not exactly ‘clean out’ but at least...

RESTAURANT REVIEW – Lee Kee

My first encounter with Chinese food was in Manchester way back in the last century.  I was doing evening...