Tag: chefs
-
Review: Ox
Read more: Review: OxFollowing Ox’s recent award of a Michelin Star, we thought we’d republish Leslie Williams‘ review from our Guild trip to Belfast last January, which included a meal in the celebrated restaurant. So you have heard about Ox in Belfast by now, but could it possibly be as good as everyone is saying? As yet there…
-
Brabazon Restaurant Tasting Evenings
Read more: Brabazon Restaurant Tasting EveningsBrabazon restaurant goes the whole hogg with a new series of tasting evenings. Last summer IFWG members spent a gorgeous day in a small corner of Co Meath visiting members of the Slane Food Circle before dining on some of their produce in the prettiest of settings in Brabazon Restaurant. The restaurant is on the…
-
Forty One Restaurant
Read more: Forty One RestaurantRestaurant FortyOne recently invited a group of food writers on a special tour of their uniquely-located kitchen garden in Killiney, followed by a special meal in the restaurant in Residence on St. Stephen’s Green. Joe McNamee recounts. We traipse through the empty rooms of one of Ireland’s most salubrious Killiney mansion homes to access the…
-
Paul Flynn’s Family Food
Read more: Paul Flynn’s Family FoodNone other than IFWG Chairperson, Lizzie Gore-Grimes, has edited Lidl’s new cookbook, written by celebrated chef Paul Flynn of the award-winning Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan. This gorgeous, family-friendly cookbook is stacked with easy-to-follow recipes that use inventive flavour combinations to impress, rather than fussy culinary technique. No matter how little time you have on your…
-
Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industry
Read more: Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industryBy Georgina Campbell. It was with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Gerry Galvin earlier this year – friend, colleague and inspiration for so many years. It’s hard to believe he’s gone, he was a gentlemanly giant of the hospitality world, quietly involved with so many good things right up to…
-
A Private Audience With Gordon Ramsay
Read more: A Private Audience With Gordon RamsayBy Myles McWeeney. It is certainly not every day you get Gordon Ramsay cooking up a storm for you personally. Recently I was fortunate enough to meet him in the Ritz Carlton in Powerscourt, when the hyper-busy restaurateur was on one of his rare visits to his eponymous restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt. The space…
-
Chefs Showcase Their Knife Skills
Read more: Chefs Showcase Their Knife SkillsBy Biddy White Lennon. Recently several members of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild took part in a couple of innovative events. Chefs led field trips, workshops, master classes in knife skills, and demonstrations of their individual methods of turning food from sea and land onto the restaurant plate. It proved informative, great fun and provided…