My favourite proverb – and, sorry you won’t find it in the bible – goes “blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed”. When, years ago, a friend took me to Lindsay House in Soho, I hadn’t the least idea who the chef was. An amiable porky geezer with an Irish
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Corrigan calls for abolition of Bord Bia
I’m sure many of the journos who found their way to Richard Corrigan’s press conference last Friday imagined the big man’s impending rant to be just a publicity stunt to publicise his restaurant and his new TV programme. Maybe that’s why the event wasn’t as well attended as I thought it might be, with several
Bentleys
The fanfare of trumpets that announced the opening of Bentley’s led many people to surmise that this restaurant was the one Dublin deserved, nay needed beyond all. A sort of gastro-oasis where sublime food would go hand-in-hand with fair pricing. Bentley’s is the brainchild of Richard Corrigan whom I first interviewed back in 1999. At
Layla
Last week Richard Corrigan disconcerted me twice. Firstly, when the big, amiable, marshmallow-centred, life-is-for-living Meath man told me he’d bought a plot in God’s Own County (not Meath). Worse, he name-checked the next village to the one I regard as my personal antidote to the rigours of working in Dublin. My knee-jerk reaction was to
London's Burning
Went to London last week (16th July). Fell asleep on the plane so missed the great Irish breakfast (did I miss much?). Still, noblesse oblige and Club Class Row 3 meant I could get off the aircraft at the speed of light and whizz down to the Underground station and emerge at Leicester Sq less
Interview: Richard Corrigan
At first hearing, ‘the Richard Corrigan story’ sounds like a Celtic version of The American Dream; the young lad from the poor bogland farm who, through talent and diligence, graduated to win not only the acclaim of notoriously hard-to-please food critics, but the coveted accolade of two Michelin stars. A choir and orchestra hymn John
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