Cooking The Books

The Old Spot Cookbook and Season

The Old Spot Cook Book does several things very well, and chief amongst those things is its celebration of the skills of Denise McBrien, the manager of the celebrated Dublin gastropub.

Restaurant managers used to be more famous than chefs – when Jancis Robinson and Nick Lander owned L’Escargot in London’s Soho, their fame played second fiddle to Elena Sa…