To celebrate ‘Febvreuary’ Jan Konetzki flew over to Dublin to give a talk to the trade about ‘Shaking Up Your Wine List’. Jan is the head sommelier at three star Michelin Restaurant Gordon Ramsey...
Louis Fabrice Latour runs his family business from their 17th century house in the heart of Beaune in Burgundy. Maison Louis Latour is one of the most important négociant-éléveurs of quality wine in Burgundy....
“My father was an entrepreneur, he was a mechanic. As much as I love cars, that was not my dream“, says Stéphane Robin, restaurant manager at Ireland’s only two star Michelin restaurant, Restaurant Patrick...
From a patch of rugged terrain on the most south-westerly tip of Ireland, with the Atlantic Ocean whipping at their pastures and the Fastnet Lighthouse blinking in the distance, there is a coastal farm...
In Ireland, it’s cold in Winter and raining in Summer, but no matter the weather we still love to indulge in our favourite dairy delight; ice cream. In fact, it’s the very rain that...
2016 is going to be a very exciting year for the food industry in Northern Ireland. A collaborative venture organised by Tourism NI, the Year of Food and Drink is bringing the industry together...
Top Chef Monica Galetti caused a stir with her recent remarks that when it came to forging a career as a top chef, women have “to put it first to do well”, choosing their career...
For a lot of diners the entire experience of eating out can rely heavily on good service. Plenty of restaurants that produce great food are struggling to keep their doors open because front of...
There is hardly a cocktail fan in Ireland that is not familiar with mixologist Darren Geraghty. For the last 15 years, Darren has been winning professional and prestigious competitions and has been responsible for...
When you search ‘Japanese Cooking’ on Google you might the expect a famous Japanese chef to rank number one. However, out of the 83,400,000 results it is an Irish woman who takes the top...
Stuart Heeney is the Executive Head Chef at the Clontarf Castle Hotel. After coming on board in 2012 as Executive Sous Chef, Stuart quickly took over the reins and has since been developing the...
For many people January is a time to make a fresh start and boost their well being both mentally and physically. The majority of those making a change will be focusing on weight loss,...
It is said that “out of adversity comes opportunity” and for one couple this definitely rings true. Gavin McCarthy and Sara Mitchell felt the sting of the recession when Gavin lost his job, but...
Being located on St. Stephen’s Green in the prestigious Fitzwilliam Hotel, you can imagine Citron restaurant has a lot of competition from the surrounding hotels and restaurants. To stand out from the crowd, their...
Fresh from the phenomenal success of the very first Food On the Edge Symposium in Galway city in October, I imagine there’s hardly a person in this country of ours who hasn’t heard of...
Ken Harker is the head chef at Michelin star Lady Helen Restaurant at Mount Juliet Estate in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Along with his team, Ken produces some of the country’s most exciting food and...
Speaking at the inaugural Food on the Edge event on the theme of ‘The Future of Food’ Chef Amanda Cohen, of New York’s Michelin starred vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy, proclaimed that if chefs don’t...
When I first met Jordan Bourke he was deeply engaged in conversation with the chefs at Ballymaloe Cookery School about the state of his Korean fermented cabbage, Kimchi, before his demonstration that evening. Once...
Margaret M. Johnson is a woman obsessed. During her first visit to our fair isle in 1984 ‘the seed was planted’ and the American author has since been back a grand total of 85...
Brasserie Le Pont was a much loved and acclaimed restaurant on the corner of Fitzwilliam Place and Leeson Street. In recent months it has been totally reburbished and reincarnated as Suesey Street, a name taken from the...
