MR ISCHLER’S DELICATESSEN

MR ISCHLER’S DELICATESSEN

Took a short cut through Kyle Street today and spotted a bakery with some tempting looking loaves in the window. Inside, there was quite a selection and also pastries and also fudges and chocolate truffles.

I stuck to

HARVEY'S: BETTER ON THE WEB!

HARVEY’S

Heard some good reports (mainly lunch/brunch) about Harvey’s of Academy Street. Checked out their website  and was quite impressed. Booked a table for dinner and was expecting great things.

But the website flattered the place. Both it and the entry in Whazon says it is fully licensed but they sell only wine, no beer. The expansive list of dishes on the web is a fiction as the actual a la carte menu was much more restricted, disappointingly so. Another letdown came when we asked for dessert. Just five on the list and two of those were “off”. Coffee on the web is set at €2.00 but its actual cost is €2.50.

Started with

THREE LEGS - THREE REDS

THREE FROM SICILY 

Three legs in the Sicilian flag and three reds in this post.

Italians, they say, love their rules. But it is in the way that George Bernard Shaw loved work: “I love work. I could watch it all day.”  Sicilians produce plenty of wine but only about a fifth of it under DOC regulations, much more of it under the looser Indicazione Geografica Tipica regime, the step above table wine.

If you go

BRAMLEY LODGE

BRAMLEY LODGE

Regularly make a call to Bramley Lodge if I’ve been

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Electric We are now taking bookings for

DUBLIN START FOR EATMAGAZINE

Mikey Maguire has been a busy man.  

Today, he launches a new free monthly food & drink magazine called EatMagazine. He will be

Penfold’s Winemaker visits Dublin & Cork

Penfold’s Winemaker visits Dublin & Cork

Tom Portet, Winemaker with legendary Australian winery, Penfold’s, will visit Ireland in February to host wine dinners at two of Ireland’s leading food-lovers’ venues. 

The first of these dinners takes place in

FLASH FOOD

Patron Silver Reindeer, a flash event by Waddington & Flack, designed by Gary Card

Are you free in Dublin between February 3^rd and 12^th?  Read on if you’d like a free meal.

Layni Joyce of PR company Thinkhouse has been in touch about it: “I thought you and your readers might like to know that 

SALLY BEE GOOD

SALLY BEE GOOD. VERY GOOD. 

Quite a few books came into this house over the holidays, including a pair of cookery books by

MABEL CRAWFORD'S (at Vienna Woods)

Once lost, now found. 

For years,  Mabel Crawford’s pantry was lost in

CORK'S TOP 31

TOPS FOR FOOD 


Seems to be the time of year for making lists: top 10, best 20. Let us be different here and go for the top 31. Simply because I like prime numbers and 31 is one of my favourites. A prime number can only be divided by itself and one, as you all know. So what is my number one? Well, overall that would Augustine's. In the county, it is Nautilus.


I have been to all 31 (and others) over the past 12 months and have been happy enough with the result. Huge differences, of course, in styles and comfort over the range but I'd have no problem in going back to any of them. The list below is alphabetical.


Just be aware also that there are some really good ones that I haven't been to in 2010, notably Les Gourmandises and Cafe Paradiso which would certainly merit places in any top list. Must also try and get out to the county more next year, to Kinsale, Midleton and Clonakilty for example, even if I'll have to cut the wine! Had noted Over the Moon in Skibbereen last year but that unfortunately has ceased to operate.


Control and click on the names below for reviews and further info.

• Aherne's (1)
• AN CRÚIBÍN (1) / Silk Purse (2)
• Augustine's (3)
• Ballymaloe Cafe (1)
• Bramley Lodge (1)
• Club Brasserie (2)
• Cornstore (6)
• Crawford Cafe (1)
• Cronin's Pub (1)
• Electric (2)
• Farmgate Cork (3)
• Fenn's Quay (5)
• Gilbert's (1)
• Greene's (3)
• Hardwood (1)
• Idaho Cafe (2)
• Isaacs (3)
• Jacobs on the Mall (5)
• Jacques (5)
• Kilkenny Cafe (Shanagarry) (1)
• Liberty Grill (4)
• Market Lane (10)
• Nash 19 (9)
• Nautilus (2)
• Perrott's Hayfield Manor (1)
• Raymond's (1)
• Rising Tide (4)
• Star Anise (1)
• The Bulman (1)
• The Continental (3)
• Vienna Woods (4)
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Nash 19 Congratulations to our

STAR OF THE SPRING IN PAUL STREET

THE WOODFORD 

Popped into the revamped Woodford (in Paul Street) the other evening. It was early in the week, dark and wet and not too many in the bar.

Impressed by their great selection of beer along with friendly and helpful service.  Arranged a little tasting for myself: Becks versus Staropramen.

Had the Becks on draught before but this was a first for my Czech favourite. The Staro is even more a favourite of mine now as it beat the socks off the Becks.

Don’t think there is anywhere else in town selling Staropramen on draught so it looks like I’ll be going back to the Woodford for the star of the Spring. Maybe a bite to eat as well. No hardship there.