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Food and Wine Magazine Christmas Show: With Half-Price Tickets!

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 29th November 2012, in News, World of Food
This year's three-day Food and Wine extravaganza kicks off at 4pm tomorrow, Friday 30th November and rolls right through until 7pm Sunday 2nd November 2012. It promises to be a heck of a way to start the merry season of eating and drinking (my favourite pastimes!), with everything...

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Restaurant Review: White Friar Grill and Restaurant

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 13th August 2012, in Dining Out, Restaurant Buzz
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 little while ago.  Ranked at a very impressive #11 of...

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Restaurant Review: Matt the Thresher Seafood Bar & Grill, Dublin 2

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 5th April 2011, in Dining Out, Restaurant Buzz
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 calibre of prizes has improved over the last twenty-two years...

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Restaurant Review: Fire Restaurant, Mansion House, Dublin 2

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 19th March 2011, in Dining Out, Restaurant Buzz
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 good. We went on a Friday evening after a long...

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Restaurant Review: Elephant & Castle, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 2nd February 2011, in News, Restaurant Buzz
The wings. Oh, the wings. That’s what had me in Temple Bar on a chilly Sunday afternoon, weaving my way through street performers on stilts and camera-bearing tourists, trying to push through the throng and into this famous Dublin restaurant, both boyfriend and mother-in-law in tow. Apparently, they do fantastic...

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Review: Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin 2

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 7th January 2011, in News, Restaurant Buzz
Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin 2 was a treat indeed. It’s one of Ireland’s very few Michelin-starred restaurants and usually features a veritable who’s-who of any of Dublin’s ‘society’ still remaining post-NAMA.  Now, before you faint, recover and denounce me as a charlatan recessionista, let...

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Recession-Friendly Italian Cookery Classes

Posted By: Gastrogirl, 4th January 2011, in News, World of Food
As a ridiculously amateur cook, I’m always on the look-out for     affordable cooking classes, as I couldn’t really justify a mortgage payment on learning how to do something which will always be just a hobby.  I came across the ‘Flavour of Italy’ cookery...

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