COFFEE: BRAZILIAN BRUZZI
Now it’s official: I am a
Monday, January 31, 2011
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
ARDSALLAGH GOATS CHEESE CRANBERRY ROULADE
GOATS CHEESE ROULADE
Had been on the lookout for Ardsallagh’s Goats Cheese Cranberry Roulade and spotted it in On the Pigs Back on a run through the English Market on Friday.
Picked up some
Picked up some
Friday, January 28, 2011
SWEET, CHEAP AND CHEERFUL
SWEET, CHEAP AND CHEERFUL
Glad I got into sweet wines. Have enjoyed a few over the Christmas and still the sweets go on, the latest a Moscatel from Valencia, the “primary source of sweet budget wines”, according to Mr Hugh Johnson.
From grapes grown on
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
A WINNER FROM KARWIG
ONE TO BUY. AGAIN
The late Renato Ratti has been credited, at least in Vino Italiano, with being “The Father of Modern Barolo”. He took that wine by the scruff of the neck in 60s and his more accessible style became a hit.
The production of classic affordable Piedmont wines goes on, now under the direction of Pierro Ratti. “..the wines keep getting better” according to Vino Italiano.
Must say I didn’t know much about this producer and their wines until I got a bottle in the Carrigaline premises of Joe Karwig. I’m glad that I did. This was a Barbera d'Alba. The Barbera is the grape variety and the Torriglione on the bottle refers to the vineyards where it is grown.
The colour is an intense Cardinal Red. Remember that
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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
Monday, January 24, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
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
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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
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