Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
A fabulous, feel-good beer festival in a deconsecrated Methodist church. Crunchy whitebait cichetti at Coppi. Instagram-perfect weekend brunches at Established Coffee, that taste even better than they look. Belfast, in 2017, was an exciting, fun, friendly, food-filled city...
When you get an email from The Gannet, asking you if you’d be interested in taking a couple of people on a tour of Cork city, with a particular focus on pubs and microbreweries,...
by Caroline · Published September 8, 2017 · Last modified February 12, 2018
Beer, cheese, sherry, chocolate, coffee: for the last three years I’ve taken the ABV Fest (and every other opportunity!) as a chance to immerse myself in the food side of Belfast. I love the...
I have two sisters. (And two brothers, but we’re focusing on the girls here.) The Little Sister is five years younger than me; I’m 16 years older than the Small Sister. They would probably...
Long, lazy lunches, enormous post-beach ice creams that threatened to melt down our arms, strolling down to the local bakery to get chocolate croissants for breakfast, popping out for café con leche and freshly...
We’re off on holidays next week and kitchen decisions have to be made. Normally we drive to France, bringing all manner of cooking paraphernalia (just short of the kitchen sink) and tins full of...
We came, we learned, we ate, we caffeinated ourselves (regularly), we danced our legs off, we were challenged, inspired, motivated: #Litfest17 or, more precisely, A Food and Drinks Literacy Festival at Ballymaloe, was a...
An edited version of this feature was first published in Irish Examiner. Make the most of a post-NZ holiday stopover by spending a night in Auckland with your family. New Zealand’s largest city is...
