Exciting Times!

So, anyhow, there we are doing the book launch of the brand new Bridgestone Food Lovers Guides and what everyone seems to want to talk about is ­ Heard about this great pub in Midleton with ace food? asks Myrtle Allen. Heard about the Thai place on the Garvaghy Road, says the man from the Irish Independent? (it sounds unbelieveable, but he wasn't joking). Heard about my favourite bar at the farthest reach of Kerry? says Brian Condon from Bridgestone. And on it goes. Two new books are closed, lots of new destinations are in the meantime discovered, since we went to press. We will use Megabytes to keep you up to date with changes, just as in November's newsletter we tell you about one hot new discovery we just got into the books ­ The Water Margin ­ and one that opened too late for the Food Lover's Guides ­ The Belfast Bar & Grill.
We live ­ lucky us ­ in exciting culinary times.

Everyone's a Food Lover

Our plan with the brand new Bridgestone Food Lover's Guides ­ The Traveller's Guide and The Shopper's Guide ­ was simple: to give the reader all the information they need, and absolutely no more, and to present the information in a funky way. Find out more

Tough

Toughest gig in Irish food right now? Getting a table in Zuni, in Kilkenny, that's what. Kilkenny locals have so taken this beautiful restaurant, bar and boutique hotel to their hearts that the dining room is permanently packed with locals. Read on

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The Bridgestone Food Lover's Guides Update

Bible Republished

When we met the great food editor Jill Norman several years ago, she explained to us that what she was seeking when she was editing a food book ­ and this is the woman who edited Elizabeth David, Richard Olney and Claudia Roden, to name just three titans of the food world ­ was a distinctive "voice". When she found that, then she was happy. Read on

Recipe of the Month

Tuna Rillettes and Roasted Peppers with Olives

Wine of the Month

Noel O'Loughlen is an interesting chap. Not content with being the owner of Galway's vital The Noble Vine, at Terryland retail park on Galway's Headford Road, he is also a vineyard owner in South West France, wine tour organiser and creator of special cuvees. Find out more

Atmosphere by the bottle

Is there anywhere in Dublin quite as atmospheric as Erik Robson's Ely Wine Bar, on Ely Place? Find out more

Menu of the Month

Paul Rankin's Belfast Bar & Grill

Queer Gear

Paul Rankin isn't alone in creating exciting new restaurant ventures in Belfast. Edmund Lau, of the revered Sun Kee Chinese restaurant on Donegall Pass, has moved down the road to an old church and opened up the stunning new Water Margin restaurant. Find out more

Letters

Dear John and Sally

Noticeboard

Sean Calder-Potts of Iago in the Cork Covered Market offers one of the rarest and most covetable food lovers' delights each December. Find out more.

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