Category: Food Industry
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Not The Full Irish
Read more: Not The Full IrishKaty McGuinness explores the true origins of ‘Irish’ foods in this article published in the Irish Independent. It all started with a packet of sliced chicken… Last autumn, in the course of researching an article that I was writing about food labelling in Ireland, I paid a visit to my local supermarket looking for examples…
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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…
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Good News for Sheridan’s Cheesemongers
Read more: Good News for Sheridan’s CheesemongersSheridans Cheesemongers’ Brown Bread Crackers are flying the flag for Ireland in the new M&S range of branded artisan products from across the British Isles. The range will be stocked in over 400 stores across the British isles and features an array of unique foods from small producers. Marks and Spencer set about sourcing a…
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Shortcross Gin
Read more: Shortcross GinAn exciting new Irish craft gin launched this year has set tongues wagging in the market for good reason, Myles McWeeney explains why. Once disparagingly referred to as ‘mother’s ruin’, gin, the juniper-based white spirit that goes so well with tonic water, is rapidly overtaking vodka as the go-to tipple for the 20 to 30-something…
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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…
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High Spirits
Read more: High SpiritsRecounting a very interesting recent meeting of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild members, by Lizzie Gore Grimes @lizgoregrimes As you can imagine with so many impassioned foodies in the group our Irish Food Writers’ Guild meetings can often get a bit spirited. But our recent meeting really took things up a notch – in the…
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New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGI
Read more: New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGIBy Georgina Campbell. Ireland’s answer to the famed Jersey Royal early potato from the Channel Islands, the New Season Comber Potatoes (or Comber Earlies as they are also known) are this island’s flagship potato and one of only a small handful of products here to have the right to use the blue and yellow EU…
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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…
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A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013
Read more: A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013By Aoife Carrigy. Where can you go that’s less than an hour’s drive from Dublin and where – within a five mile radius of one picturesque town – you could gather together the makings of not one but several great meals? That’s what we wondered when putting together ideas for the Irish Food Writers’ Guild…
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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…
