The New Bridgestone Guides

"It's five years since the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide appeared in a single volume and let's hope another half-decade doesn't elapse before we get the next edition of this bible of restaurants, food and wine shops, markets and food producers".
Marie-Claire Digby, The Irish Times

The new Bridgestone Irish Food Guide is our attempt to paint a picture of the contemporary gastronomic culture of Ireland and, at over 400 pages, it is proof of just how vibrant and dynamic that food culture is at present.

Since the last single-edition appeared in 1999, the biggest engine for development has been the new Farmer's Markets, and we are delighted to see many new markets sprouting up here and there, many of them supported by local councils and local authorities, bodies who now recognise that in a post-CAP world, farm-gate innovations are vital.

The Bridgestone 100 Best Guides, 2005
There are more than 20 new restaurant entries in the Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland 2005, and more than a dozen new places to stay in the companion volume, The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland 2005. Our editors have been busy winkling out fun, creative, exciting new places, and from Kilkbrittan's The Glen to Temple Bar's Ho Sen, here are the best places to eat and stay. We have been especially pleased this year to see a new wave of energy in some of our best country houses, and we are more than happy to see the arrival of more and more Road map menus, those gorgeous documents that not only entice you with what they offer, but which also give you a snapshot of the place in which you are eating. See the Menu of the Month for more on this.

Meantime, you can by the new Bridgestone Guides and all other Estragon Press titles online: click on!