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September 2026

The Annual State of The Chowder
The third Cully & Sully SOUPerb Award brought out the best in all the finalists.
 • John and Sally McKenna
Cork city’s crazy culinary creativity
“Blood, Guts & Black Pudding” event with the Market Lane Group
 • John and Sally McKenna
Pepito, Belfast
In the world of Irish restaurants, Jonathan Davis is the maitre’d’s maitre’d.
 • John and Sally McKenna
So why do we keep going back to… Goldie
Shine on you crazy diamond.
 • John and Sally McKenna
Dishing Up
Good to Eat, Good to Think
 • John and Sally McKenna
Blood, Guts and Black Puddings
Kate Ryan’s genre-busting exploration of Irish black puddings is an epic feast.
 • 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…
 • John and Sally McKenna
Why do we keep going back to… Paradiso
Dave and Miguel knock it out of the páirc ui chaoimh
 • John and Sally McKenna

August 2026

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