Dough Brothers: Best Pizza in Ireland
My passionate search for great pizza had already taken me across America, through much of Italy, and to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Punta Del Este, Uruguay by 1999. It was in that year that I...
"Irish Food"
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Eire-Mex is Catching On
Put the familiar eggs, sausage, beans and black pudding from a “full Irish breakfast” on a corn tortilla and you’ve got Bia Cantina’s “Bricfeasta Tacos” (There’s also a vegetarian version.) I loved the breakfast taco...
Rostrevor Innkeeper: Seth Linder
Hotel guests are invited to enjoy the amazing Full Irish Breakfast that’s served in the dining room of the Rostrevor Inn in County Down, Northern Ireland every morning. It includes the customary fried egg, rashers...
A Beekeeper’s Journal: Bees and Blackberries
Joe Shea is the beekeeper at Mourne Grange, a Camphill Community in the Mourne Mountains of County Down. Here’s his report on the current season: There’s an old time fiddle tune called Blackberry Blossom and...
Barrtrá Seafood: OMG! I'm Sitting in a Restaurant!
Citrus-cured trout with turmeric-tinted pickled cauliflower and vivid violet garnish started off a lovely Friday evening dinner at Barrtrá, a seafood cafe in Lahinch. After months of home-cooking and takeaway during the interminable Covid-19 lockdown,...
Lockdown Blog Blather
Other than my home baking, there haven’t been any food experiences to describe around here lately. And yes, my bread is quite ugly. IrelandEats.com is supposed to be a blog that explores the...
Culinary Kerry: Sheen Falls Lodge
Cauliflower Cheesecake may sound ominously healthy, but trust Michelin-starred Chef Paul McDonald to turn the savory pie into a startlingly original starter. The snow-white cheesecake slice is topped with cured and quick-smoked trout and a dollop of trout...
Dublin Crabshacks: Klaw/Seafood Cafe
Two of us split the succulent array of fresh Irish seafood known as the “Big Seafood Sharing Plate” at The Seafood Cafe by Niall Sabongi in Dublin. The awesome assortment comes with a whole cleaned crab, boiled shrimp, a...
A Nice Cup of Tea?
“Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.” -Oscar Wilde The average Irish person drinks 5 cups of tea a day, 300 liters a year. The nation drinks 15 million cups daily. Irish tea is...