Caomhán de Brí, a recent graduate of the botanical cuisine degree course at TU Dublin, is co-hosting two fine dining, long table pop-up dinners, along with Kevin Wallace, founder of New Leaf Urban Farmers in Ballyneety, Co Limerick. For two nights, Friday and Saturday, August 5th and 6th, de Brí will bring The Salt Project, his plant-focused street food concept, to a polytunnel on the farm where Wallace uses Korean natural farming methods to grow vegetables, salads and herbs commercially without chemicals or pesticides.
The five-course menu will showcase a huge variety of seasonal produce picked that morning, as well as incorporating goat’s cheese from Bally Goat Farm, pork belly from Rigney’s Farm and grass-fed beef from Croom butcher Pat Barry. Vegan and vegetarian menus will also be available. Each of the five courses will be matched with a natural, organic or biodynamic wine or craft beer.
The polytunnel will be styled with locally grown flowers and wildflowers from the farm by Tara Moloney of White Dove Nurseries in Abbeyfeale, and local singer and songwriter Stuart Bond will perform during the evening. Two long tables will accommodate 100 guests each night and tickets are €95, available on Eventbrite.
The Marker hotel’s champagne evenings are back, and next Thursday, July 21st, executive chef Gareth Mullins will present a five-course menu specially created for a collaboration with Champagne Ayala. Starting with an aperitif on the rooftop terrace, guests will then head to the brasserie for a dinner featuring Toonsbridge mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes, lobster ravioli, roast loin of Castledermot lamb, and Wexford strawberries, each matched with a different Ayala Champagne. Tickets are €120 each and can be booked by contacting the hotel on 01-6875104, themarker.ie.
Everything is coming up rosé at Wilde restaurant at the Westbury hotel in Dublin this summer, where a specially selected range of wines and cocktails are available by the glass, bottle or flight, until the end of August. Provence-based Maison Mirabeau is the vineyard partner, Irish artist Ciara O’Neill designed the cover art for this year’s menu, and the floral installation on the terrace overlooking Grafton Street is by Kasia Skopinska.
The Flight of Rosé tasting experience, €30, includes a 75ml pour from three of Mirabeau’s rosé collection: Mirabeau Pure Rosé 2021 (normally €16 per glass, €65 per bottle), Mirabeau Etoile Rosé 2021 (€18 per glass, €75 per bottle), and Mirabeau La Folie Sparkling Rosé (€18 per glass, €75 per bottle).
You can also indulge in a glass of rosé in rose-tinted surroundings at the Whispering Angel Rosé Garden on the terrace at Café en Seine in Dublin 2 throughout July. The Provencal wine is available by the glass, €13, bottle €65, or magnum €140.
