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Why do we keep going back to ... Ox, Belfast

They have kept the old-style, unpretentious, black font on brown art paper menus in Ox from the day, in March 2013, when Stevie Toman and Alain Kerloc’h…

4 hrs ago • John and Sally McKenna

The Wild West of Cheese

Making a living making something that matters

Oct 5 • John and Sally McKenna

Dublin 8 is truly Dublin Ate.

Oct 1 • John and Sally McKenna

The Annual State of The Chowder

The third Cully & Sully SOUPerb Award brought out the best in all the finalists.

Sep 28 • John and Sally McKenna

Cork city’s crazy culinary creativity

“Blood, Guts & Black Pudding” event with the Market Lane Group

Sep 24 • John and Sally McKenna

Dublin Restaurants

Doughnut Economics made Insanely Delicious

Aug 28, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

John Wyer and the making of Forêt

Apr 3, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

The Seaweed Stakeholders

Chefs, Harvesters, Products, Educationalists, all using seaweed in Ireland

Mar 17, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

A new shining light for Dublin eating in Portobello.

Feb 24, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Sister 7 @ Fidelity Studio

The Spatial Sonic Spa

Feb 20, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Cork

Cork city’s crazy culinary creativity

“Blood, Guts & Black Pudding” event with the Market Lane Group

Sep 24 • John and Sally McKenna

So why do we keep going back to… Goldie

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Sep 17 • John and Sally McKenna

Why do we keep going back to… Paradiso

Dave and Miguel knock it out of the páirc ui chaoimh

Sep 3 • John and Sally McKenna

Third-culture cooking at its zenith.

Aug 20 • John and Sally McKenna

12 Cork City Secrets

Aug 10 • John and Sally McKenna

Galway

Summer ‘26: Boutique Galway

These are the places that put the grá in Galway City.

Jul 9 • John and Sally McKenna

Restaurant review: Fawn

Noble Rotty treats in Oranmore, Co Galway

Nov 6, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

So-Doh! Sourdough

Baking the world a better place

Oct 27, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Within the Village

The wild spirit of south Connemara, distilled and perfected.

Oct 23, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

10 Years of Food on the Edge

Food for the Soul

Oct 20, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

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Pepito, Belfast

In the world of Irish restaurants, Jonathan Davis is the maitre’d’s maitre’d.

Sep 21 • John and Sally McKenna

So why do we keep going back to… Goldie

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Sep 17 • John and Sally McKenna

Good to Eat, Good to Think

Sep 14 • John and Sally McKenna

Blood, Guts and Black Puddings

Kate Ryan’s genre-busting exploration of Irish black puddings is an epic feast.

Sep 10 • John and Sally McKenna

Breakfast (not brunch) – Mount Congreve, Waterford

Ireland has swallowed brunch menus wholesale for the last decade but – once in a while – it’s delighting to be served a real breakfast. Cue: Waterford’s…

Sep 7 • John and Sally McKenna

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