When I started catering college at 17 I got bored pretty quickly. They basically give you a full 3 hours to make a pot of soup for 4 fake customers and teach you theory about salmonella, Ecoli and other irrelevant shit like that. I wanted to learn and get to the top fast so I […]
9 years ago
Most restaurants have extensive menus that give you lots of choice but they’ll often also have a signature dish that they are known for. Something that is always on the menu and a cut above the rest. Something that their customers have liked so much that they would simply never dare to remove it. We’ve […]
9 years ago
Another week, another new brewery! That’s the rate we’re going at in Ireland at the moment, and it’s brilliant. There’s no doubt that there is a craft beer revolution happening on this little island and we’re all benefitting from it, getting to try deadly new beers almost every day. Last night saw the launch of […]
9 years ago
Last weekend, the European Beer Bloggers’ Conference (EBBC) took place in The Church here in Dublin. Now in its 4th year, it was the first time that the conference was held outside the UK. Beer bloggers from all over Europe and the world came together, exchanged ideas and listened to brilliant presentations by expert speakers. […]
9 years ago
As we all know eating good healthy food is a horrendous pain in the hole. We all know that the body runs better on strawberries and green beans than it does on pints of Bulmers and Marlboro lights but the struggle to stay on the right side of the fence when it comes to your […]
9 years ago
For years and years, my table manners were atrocious. My party trick was not eating dinner, pretending to eat or making excuses. At restaurants I always said I’d eaten earlier, or felt sick, or had to leave early. Anything to get out of ordering. If pressed, I would ask for the plainest item on the […]
9 years ago
There must be something in the water in Wicklow these days. No less than 3 new breweries have either started up recently or are just in the process of setting up in the Garden County. When I heard that one of them, Wicklow Wolf, was growing their own hops, I couldn’t wait to check out […]
9 years ago
For a year my job was to look at food porn all day. Well, it was a bit more complicated than that. I was the community manager (that is, I ran Facebook and Twitter) for a cheese brand, and would spend my days befriending bored teenagers and their even more bored mothers and posting pictures […]
9 years ago
Considering today is International Women’s Day, we thought we’d celebrate some of the best women in the Irish Food Industry. We’ve got chefs, athletes, writers and entrepreneurs on the list, and they’re all women who are flourishing in an otherwise male-dominated field. Today in particular we raise a glass of bubbly to you ladies, keep […]
9 years ago
The weather is starting to turn cold and rainy (winter is definitely coming), and we’ve used it as the perfect excuse to indulge in dreamy mugs of rich hot chocolate. We’ve put together a list of the top 10 hot chocolates in the city, so you can indulge in the best that Dublin has to […]
9 years ago
Coconut oil is quickly becoming the top oil of choice as people are on the look out for healthier options. It is another superfood that is unique in the nutrients it provides; being full of natural fatty acids that boost the immune system and act as a natural antibiotic, helping to protect us against harmful […]
9 years ago
Hadskis is based in heart of the Cathedral Quarter, although when I parked up on the main road I didn’t realise this – I was struggling with my bearings having not spent a lot of time in Belfast. An industrial facade from the very ordinary front road looks very uninspiring and then you realise that […]
9 years ago