Catherine Cleary

Catherine Cleary

Catherine Cleary is an award-winning journalist. She began her career as a news reporter with The Irish Times and became the paper’s drugs and crime correspondent. She later joined the Sunday Tribune as its security correspondent. She began writing about food almost a decade ago and now writes a weekly restaurant column for The Irish Times.

The Winding Stair: Stairway to food heaven

The reinvented casual cafe at the Winding Stair has cornered the market in feel-good Irish food

The Greenhouse, Dawson Street
The Best of . . . Food and Drink

From posh nights to quick bites

Brasserie at The Marker hotel in Dublin
Review: Dublin’s glossy new Marker Hotel could change the game with a bit more work

Good Irish food is centre stage in the brasserie but not all of it is seasonal

L’Ecrivain restaurant, Lr Baggot Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Top scores at old favourite L’Ecrivain

The Dublin restaurant withstands the test of time and still excites the palate

10 people, 10 success stories

Each person was trying something they always said they’d do some day. Catherine Cleary helped them harness the power of now

The Tannery, Dungarvan
A carnivore’s delight

Eye-to-tail credentials earned as FergusStock hits Dungarvan

The Oarsman, Carrick-on-Shannon

After a morning at the coalface Catherine Cleary finds a Leitrim pub that’s a real crowd pleaser

New Belfast restaurant Ox puts brilliance on a plate

Other chefs could learn from how Stephen Toman cooks vegetables in his new Belfast restaurant

The table, 1-2 Portobello Road, Dublin 8

Well executed and imaginative takes on bistro classics brighten up canal bank landmark

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