Restaurant Review: The Savoy, Limerick
Hubby just in the door, “how about breakfast in Savoy”? I grab the bag in lightning speed and am seated within minutes in his favourite car, his wee “Panda”, putting on the make up in the rear-view...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Fire Restaurant, Mansion House, Dublin 2
Among the great Christmas presents we got this year was a voucher for Fire Restaurant, at Mansion House, Dublin 2. And a bloody good job we did too, as this place is not cheap. Luckily, it’s also very...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Waterford Castle Hotel, The Island, Waterford
We needed someplace quiet, peaceful & relaxing to make some major decisions before Christmas. I read the great reviews and rang Reception at Waterford Castle, asking for good views and a four...
View ArticleDining Out Deals for Mother’s Day
Yup, it’s that time of the year again, the briefest of twenty-four hours in which we get to thank our Mums for everything from wiping our snotty noses to organising our tax returns. If you’ve decided...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Matt the Thresher Seafood Bar & Grill, Dublin 2
The last thing I can ever remember winning was a bag of coal when I was four. Yep, I was the pint-sized, pig-tailed envy of Junior Infants as you can imagine. However, I am happy to declare that the...
View ArticleLimerick’s Love Gourmet Week
Ok so Bloom’s over, Taste is nearly over, but if you live in Limerick you have a couple of days left to enjoy Love Gourmet Week, a great initiative dreamt up by Limerick restaurateurs to allow diners...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: White Friar Grill and Restaurant
Emily Holmes has good taste. This extends to style, interior design, and, it appears, restaurants. Like White Friar Grill, for example, which she chose as the location for a most overdue catch-up a...
View ArticleA Rather Special Restaurant Review: Alain Ducasse’s Le Grill, Monte Carlo
I don’t normally blog about my private life, as to be frank, it’s not nearly as interesting as the food I eat. However, just this once I thought I’d make an exception. I’ve been a little quiet of late....
View ArticleGastronomics.ie in Food and Wine Magazine – Review of the Lady Helen, Mount...
Yep, there’s one half of the Gastronomics.ie duo in the fabulous Food and Wine magazine again, this time at the Lady Helen Restaurant, Mount Juliet, Kilkenny. It was a real treat indeed to review the...
View ArticleGastronomics.ie in Food & Wine Magazine – Review of Canteen, Mallow Street,...
Our review in this month’s Food & Wine magazine was of the delectable and uber-popular Canteen, a funky, lively pop-up eatery on one of Limerick’s many beautiful Georgian streets. Early last month,...
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