For her last assignment, Catherine Cleary tries socially distant dining

The innovative ways in which restaurants are reaching customers under lockdown

Students who might have been on a J1 might be strawberry picking in Wexford instead

A hot school lunch idea has pivoted to a food service for locals on lockdown in Dublin

Ballymakenny Farm Potatoes has moved from supplying chefs to a drive-through and courier service

Is farming a two-acre smallholding in Co Meath for the birds? Not at Jackdaw Farm

How I re-created McDonald’s most famous burger in my kitchen (It’s all in the sauce)

My reviews are on ice. What will be left of our restaurant industry when the thaw comes?

‘It’s the food we want to eat ourselves and we want to share it with other people’

Imogen Rabone started Trees on the Land to encourage landowners to grow native trees

From a loft-like cafe in Kildare to a fine vegetarian in Sligo, these great places make for a terrific pit stop

Restaurant review: Ballyvolane House is a lovely way to experience the food of home

From shameless 1970s indulgence to a late afternoon feast, you won’t go wrong with these great spots

Restaurant review: ‘It's weird not eating this food from some kind of cardboard box’

Shrove Tuesday: Use a good pan and have kitchen roll to hand, advises Catherine Cleary

Restaurant review: Woodruff has spades of ambition and makes the most of its space

These 10 places have one thing in common: it’s all about the food. Treat the kids – and yourself

This Dublin newcomer uses the best ingredients and cooks them lovingly

Restaurateurs share trade secrets of the ‘worst night of the year’

Try these 16 places for great food that won't cost you a fortune

Restaurant review: This new Italian operates at breakneck speed, but does so very well

Review: Liath is a beautiful, joyful one-man show with no stiff service or reverential whispering

Review: This accomplished cooking is wildly successful with the after-work crowd

Review: This impressive restaurant weaves culinary magic and produces fine dining

After years of full-strength retail therapy, charity shops would be my nicotine patches

Review: One of the few places you can eat well, in a lovely room, for a reasonable price

The menu has potential but the food is mystifyingly lacking in flavour

My most memorable food of 2019 was made by cooks and chefs who put food joy on plates

Review: This Pakistani restaurant in Artane proves dinner in the suburbs needn’t feel like a consolation prize

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: fine dining without overdoing the formality? We think these hit the spot

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: Our go-to informal restaurants and bars

Restaurant review: Glas seems to be vegetarian and vegan, which makes the vegan Parmesan a bit of a head-scratcher

Food at the Rotunda is tastier, healthier and probably cheaper than in other Irish hospitals

Catherine Cleary changes her restaurant ratings after dining out with wheelchair users

Restaurant review: This Leinster House venue the has air of a pricey nursing home

Some say it’s a solution for a growing world. But it could be a Frankenfoods nightmare

Restaurant review: Almost every morsel of food that Sinéad Ní Gháirbhith serves is local and Irish

A cooker, chopping boards and a good knife are all some cooks need to work

All the playful bells and whistles of a fine-dining establishment, at a heist-worthy steal

Restaurant review: The English Market cafe sets a standard anywhere in Ireland should be proud to follow

Restaurant review: Beneath the city’s newest museum is a little cafe with a big personality

Our favourite places for lunch, from quick bites to special occasions

Restaurant review: A real pub with great food in a real part of Dublin

It's like a bereavement, say owners of Eastern Seaboard restaurant in Drogheda as Fish Shop plans a move out of Dublin to Tramore

Restaurant review: Outside are tables and blankets for outdoor lunch. Inside, the aroma of buttery fish

Review: Peter Everett charges steep prices, but this is exactly the hearty cooking I need

Good luck booking at Aimsir. It has six tables and only opens four nights a week

Review: The menu may have few words, but the food screams quality on a plate

Review: An unpretentious place so good it should become a destination in itself

Review: This ambitious secret-garden cafe combines history with a glimpse of a better future

Review: This new restaurant has talent in the kitchen, a rarity in this overheated market

Review: A young woman chef is leading a French kitchen from the classics into something new

The owners of what is a cafe by day cook wonderful food on their restaurant nights

Review: This is a hard-working place where the school of cooking is very much French

Review: This sushi bar should steer clear of novelty and focus on what it can do best

A burger joint hits the fast-food sweet spot. Plus Stoked, Strandhill: A bonus dinner of lovingly made small plates

Review: An almost all-female family affair injects a rare amount of soul into the food

Dunne & Crescenzi’s spot in Sandymount, in south Dublin, serves top-notch rustic Italian food

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern and more

This Aungier Street restaurant serves addictively delicious free-range chicken

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: Some serve meat too, but all know their veg

They stay in their cab for 12 hours a day, urinate in bottles, work under relentless pressure and hold the safety of citizens belo(...)

Tucked under a railway bridge and in an old cinema projector room, they’re making the city better from the inside out

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: All are worth going off the beaten track for

These chefs are a marriage made in a particularly delicious corner of heaven

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: You’ll like them as much as your kids will

Delicious food in a former Camden Street butcher’s – with a surprisingly reasonable bill

Dutch cycling expert measured air pollution in Dublin at three times Utrecht level

A two-course Sunday lunch is €28. You could pay more for a soul-sapping pub carvery

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: This dozen are provenance proud

Review: It’s the work of ex-Chapter One head chef Cathal Leonard and his partner Sarah Ryan

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: The coffee hangouts we love to eat in

Practices that have always made environmental sense are now making business sense

This Terenure restaurant’s front of house is just right, but the chefs are still looking for their mojo

Irish Times restaurant critic Catherine Cleary donned an apron and spent an evening waiting tables at Michelin-starred Ox restaura(...)

And a restaurant should at least give its sit-down diners a plate and real, reusable cutlery

Despite recent closures, the restaurant sector is booming. More outlets mean more closures

Review: dlr Lexicon deserves an above average cafe and it’s got one in Ink Cafe

Review: The Cliff at Lyons destination clearly has its sights on two Michelin stars

This Stoneybatter restaurant’s food is delicious. Just ditch the spirulina and up the service

Review: The big house on the shores of Lough Swilly is all about food provenance

A pianist and talented chefs make a meal at this hotel diningroom one to savour

This Westland Row restaurant seems to have won fans by doing the simple things well

Dining alone is a growing trend, a true test of hospitality and the list of wines by the glass

Consistency is everything in small places, and with ramen there’s nowhere to hide

GP referrals to local amenities give patients a sense of connection and belonging

Crowd-pleasing Korean, Chinese and Japanese small plates will tempt you back

Bike projects in Galway and Dublin 8 aim to reclaim the streets for cyclists

The Michelin-starred food is high-art French technique but has a distinct Irish accent

This Italian, which has a 1980s feel, is cheerful but definitely not cheap 

Kristina McElroy is a stylish repurposer of fashion and is hosting a sartorial fix-up event

Review: Bee Wilson believes our relationship with food has changed for the worse

The personality on the plate is right. A night-time glow shouldn’t be far behind

A wonderful smell of cooking greets us like a warm hug as we step in off the street

Tourists have discovered this place – now it’s time for Dubliners to get in on the act

This slick cafe’s tested offerings make other salad bars look sludgy and samey

This place shows you don’t have to be as generic as the developments around you