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A Healthy Restaurant Guide to Cork City That Will Satisfy Both Saints and Rebels

Dining out is a joyful thing. An every day celebration of produce and culinary skill, that can turn a mundane meal time into moreisly magical affair. I’ve always considered restaurants to be social destinations as much as gastronomic ones, and as restaurant and cafe culture continues to thrive in Ireland, meeting for brunch or a …

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From Jamie Oliver’s Protégé to Ireland’s King of Fire and Smoke – Chef John Relihan

If you are going to be set straight on a long-held misunderstanding then who better to educate you than the foremost expert on the subject in the country. “There’s a difference between grilling and barbecuing,” explains John Relihan, the chef who sparked a trend for fire and smoke cooking in Ireland when he opened Holy Smoke …

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Holy Smoke Restaurant, Cork City

Holy Smoke is an award winning BBQ restaurant located on Sheares Street in Cork. They specialise in pit-smoked barbecue and they serve 100% Irish meat slowly cooked at low temperatures for up to 16 hours. All of their meat is smoked in-house daily, dry-rubbed with a signature blend of herbs and spices, and cooked using quality woods and 100% …

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Master of Fire and Smoke Offers Up Communion for the Hungry at Holy Smoke Cork

Ireland, the land of the shortest barbecuing season in the world, thanks to our less than blue-sky perfect summers. I quip, with only the smallest hint of irony, that you would be as well to light the BBQ in mid-winter as you are in mid-summer. I know this by painful personal experience as I recall …

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Become a BBQ Master with Chef John Relihan’s Pitmaster Masterclass this August

Master the art of low and slow cooking over smoke and fire this August chef John Relihan’s Pitmaster Masterclass at The Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery. The Pitmaster event is the last of the Flavour.ie Summer Showcase, a series of specially curated events for food lovers that brought together a unique selection of experts, chefs and …

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Holy Smoke Cork

Chef John Relihan Opens First Irish Restaurant in Cork City Centre called Holy Smoke

Young Munster chef and renowned Pitmaster, John Relihan, has been lured back to Ireland to open his first Irish restaurant in Cork city centre called Holy Smoke. The 88 seater, a BBQ smokehouse restaurant, is based in the Mardyke Complex, with its own entrance on little Hanover Street. The restaurant opened for business over the …

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