Great service and comfort food staples make this an ideal lunch spot

Hugo’s looks like a blast from the past but its impressive food is more about the future

This restaurant has style, ambition and lorry-loads of flavour

Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson on why it pays to be nice to staff and why his restaurant doubled its prices overnight

The award comes after 33 ‘tough’ years in the kitchen for Wild Honey Inn owner Aidan McGrath

Moira is a small town with a properly great destination restaurant – just go

Four Dublin restaurants among the awards for ‘good quality at good value’

To miss out on Elaine Murphy’s latest northside foodie venture would be criminal

We find a real feast in south county Dublin

Review: This St Stephen’s Green eatery serves not so much small plates as canapés with notions

Good veggie fare in a beautiful cafe run with a smile and a very good heart

This pier side restaurant is getting a lot right but certain things need to be fine-tuned

This Inchicore cafe offers great value and fresh lunches and deserves a higher profile

Put it on your ‘destination restaurant’ list and eat top food in a beautiful room

Restaurant review: Farmhill proves that suburbia is where it’s at

The food ambitions of this handsome restaurant are admirable but a simpler start might have worked better

This restaurant makes fish fun, helping Irish people get over their penitential hang-ups

Celebrity chefs usually start in restaurants and move to TV – Rachel Allen does it in reverse

Paul Flynn and wife Máire on 20 years of the Tannery, almost going broke and learning to love chips

Old Street is in a previously unloved corner of the village – and there’s lots to love about it

Massive new Dublin hub shows how food waste initiative is expanding

Louise Bannon’s bread has taken her to France in search of ancient grains

Heron and Grey in Blackrock takes you to new levels of magical taste

Dinner at this northside Dublin restaurant is as much a food tour of Malaysia as a meal

It’s a bake off this week between Le Daroles in Auch, France and a bistro in Dublin

Jess Murphy will join other top chefs to cook supermarket surplus food

Great Kilkenny restaurant manages to be both fresh and comfortingly familiar

With no ceremony and few frills, this Dublin basement feels like home

Graham Neville, the city’s best non-starred chef, is shaking things up at Dax Restaurant

Review: Dublin eatery is putting great Irish food in a great pub with dogged commitment

These artisan pizzas are a cut above the student-pub standard

Fine dining in a former hunting lodge in Connemara

This cafe has cracked the secret of all the best tribute acts: being as good, if not better, than the star whose playbook you’re v(...)

‘So-called cheap meat is something we pay for three times,’ says Philip Lymbery

The luxury is all on the plate, by a chef not only making it vegan but also making it great

A theatre cafe that is pared-back, but never loses the plot

Restaurant critic Catherine Cleary witnesses the truth behind a plate of venison

Review: A new Dublin city centre winebar has a pleasant surprise in store: good food

Food from from 14 countries served at event as Ireland embraces food truck culture

Excellent meat is let down by other dishes being bland

From fish-finger sandwiches to fine dining, we recommend the restaurants and cafes serving the best food in the country

Miyazaki Japanese Takeaway serves delicious and subtle food in Cork

Dublin's Camden Street restaurant is a welcome change from bog-standard Chinese place

A new eatery provides a delicious souk full of Middle Eastern tastes

Having a good pan is always a huge help, particularly on Pancake Tuesday

This hipster cafe is precious about its coffee, but the superb food is the real gem here

It’s all about the lobster in this terrific little place

This Smithfield restaurant sources ingredients of the moment and cooks them brilliantly

The decor may be over the top in this Dublin brasserie, but the food is a winner

Castlegregory’s loss is a new neighbourhood restaurant in Dublin that does things differently

Irish chef Robin Gill is rating contestants' cooking on the TV show, but how does his own kitchen fare?

This small, smart cafe has the potential to go whole hog and become a full restaurant

You'll find style and substance in spades at this den of gentility

In a year where the mood was sombre, there was happiness and memorable moments to be found in big-hearted cooking

Do other chefs resent the meteoric rise of their tiny Blackrock restaurant with its one working burner and no toilet? ‘Hell yeah,’(...)

Creativity and craft make this new venture a cut above the rest

His Japanese restaurant is – mostly – memorably good, just avoid the red pepper jus

On a steep hill in a charming Georgian townhouse, the Reids have got it right

A winning combination of a kitchen that knows how to cook with a garden that knows how to grow

The chef who ‘cooks waste’ in Silo in Brighton wants to create a world-class tour de force

While the food is nothing to swoon over, you'll find comfort, whip smart service and a sense of place

The Irish comedian on immigrants and the American right to eat a raw burger

Italian restaurant more than satisfies when you’re winging it

There is much to like in this Monkstown restaurant, but also a couple of missteps

Filmmaker Brian McGinn talks about his hit Netflix show and his hopes to show the world it has been wrong about Irish food

This new wine bar with fancy tapas at €3 each shows promise

Eleven Madison Park in New York is expensive, but is it worth it? You betcha

Try bog butter, Clew Bay oysters and smoked Donegal mackerel at Westport’s Idle Wall

Cirillo’s on Baggot Street looks like it’s been here forever, and feels like it knows what it’s doing

Clare Smyth’s three stars at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay speak for themselves

Award for intimate Blackrock restaurant brings to 12 the number of gilded eateries on island

Heron and Grey has become one of the world’s smallest Michelin-starred restaurants

Blackrock’s Heron and Grey awarded first Michelin Star

Stylish decor and tuna that resembles a prosthetic limb

Belfast-based friendship and ambition unite the people behind Ox Meets the Rabbit, an exciting pop-up cuisine venture in Lower Man(...)

The Wednesday dinners at the local cafe are pretty fantastic – but for heaven’s sake don’t tell anyone

Once the restaurant settles down, Clontarf should have itself another good neighbourhood eatery

Japanese noodle soup hasn’t become as fashionable in Dublin as it is in London, but it is certainly trending here, and this little(...)

The great storyteller would have hated to be called a gourmet – but he was

This new eatery knows what it wants to be – a smart city bar and restaurant serving great food

Has a Dublin neighbourhood eaten itself and is now entirely made of parody and artisan cheese? No, this little restaurant provides(...)

This country cafe could teach some of the city slickers a thing or two about how to get the best from vegetables

Indoor-outdoor eateries are springing up everywhere – here are some of the best

Apart from a tweak of the name, it seems not much has changed at this old perennial’s latest incarnation

A wonderful neighbourhood joint serves up classic Italian fare at takeaway prices

A French genius will be featured on ‘Chef’s Table’ – we had a taste before the Netflix fans descend

Conference told of under-representation of women in kitchens and unpaid internships

Chef says it is a "human rights issue" when speaking at Athrú conference in Galway

There's a combination of the freshest fish and the warmest welcome at this new Italian

Forget designer pots and pans and stick with classic pieces that don’t have to cost the earth

You won’t love the shenanigans involved in getting a seat but you will love the food

Staying in Ireland this summer? Here are some great eating spots and places to stay

Burren Storehouse and Sheedy’s Hotel make Lisdoonvarna a food destination

An Italian-ish restaurant has a lovely canalside terrace, but the cooking ranges from comfortable to confused

Carrot peelings, stale pitta, coleslaw: going five days without waste is not easy

The move from a more rural location has not diminished this restaurant’s appeal

Fine chateaus, abbeys, vineyards and tapestries put Catherine Cleary under their spell

This tiny spot proves that when you build it well enough, they will come - just don't forget to bring cash

A meal of two halves taught us that if you treat it like a tapas bar, you’ll be well fed and watered