The award season is upon us. The Restaurant Association’s Jacob’s Creek-sponsored shindig at The Westin was the usual sociable affair. Trick is to avoid going on to The Palace Bar afterwards with the likes of Peter Caviston and Aidan McManus. I couldn’t this year, the day (and probably the next) would have been wasted and ...
FoodOne of the things I sometimes wonder about is “Just how good are Irish chefs?” when push comes to shove. I mean, the quality of the likes of Kevin Thornton and Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud’s Guillaume le Brun is pretty much a given, for the punters go there expecting culinary pyrotechnics and the prices levied allow ...
Food‘Fusion’ is one of those words capable of multiple meanings in a culinary situation. Fusion is what happens when you inadvertently lower a hot pan on to a plastic chopping board. It’s also a word used to describe the confluence of two or more national cuisines on one plate – chicken vindaloo with spaghetti, to ...
Restaurant ReviewsKorean cuisine? Well, I suppose those industrious chappies must eat something when they aren’t busy cobbling together TV’s and mobile phones or knocking up cheapo Stratocaster guitar copies. But ‘Korean cuisine’ has a somewhat hollow ring to it; a bit like, say, ‘Longford gastronomy’. Which is why I was keen to investigate the genre by ...
Restaurant ReviewsLazy, lingering lunches are a thing of the past, long vanished into the void with the punt and Holy Hour. Nowadays we are all too time-pressured; a sarnie at the desk is the dish of the day. But last Friday, I regressed and how enjoyable it was. The reason for this decadence was the temporary ...
Restaurant ReviewsMy love affair with ‘Indian’ food started back in student days. The Taj Mahal nestled, half-forgotten by the local planners whose compulsory purchase order had long since expired, under railway arches ripe for demolition should the local council ever win the lottery. The proprietor, Mr.Anwar, was a masterly multi-tasker performing the roles of waiter, occasional ...
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