Burritos are the perfect midway point between fast food and a reasonably decent meal. Filling and comforting, quick and tasty, and unlike McDonald’s or the worst offender KFC, they don’t leave you squirming in shame when the instant pleasure has been devoured. Burritos and Blues, located on the corner of Camden’s Street, has been around [...]

There’s half-price fish and chips to be had at hundreds of chippers across Ireland today, Wednesday May 25. This is the second “National Fish and Chips day”, organised by the Irish Traditional Italian Chipper Association (ITICA). Chippers promoting the offer will advertise in their window or above their shop sign. Look out for the logo. [...]

The fast food industry is a major employer of minimum wage workers, and it is also one of the few industries that sees increased profits during a recession.  Supermacs saw their pretax profit increase by 18% last year, yet they are still cutting their staff’s wages.  Advocates of cutting the minimum wage say that it’s [...]

Time magazine had a very interesting and revealing piece on the world’s worst fast food – most of which was in the States. The meals included a particularily revolting looking ‘Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries’ which was a whopping 2,140 Calories – more than the recommended daily allowance. The article also featured a salad from [...]

Eddie Rocket’s have been loudly trumpeting their new menu to us radio addicts. Despite the likes of the Real Gourmet Burger chain going out of business, the whole gourmet burger concept, along with the fierce recession, has inevitably put some pressure on Eddie’s. Some of their prices can’t have helped either. The radio ads tell us [...]

I’ve seen a sneak preview of Jamie’s Food Revolution in the US (watch the trailer here) and already I am fascinated and horrified in equal parts. I think Jamie is fantastic, you can see that he really cares about what children are eating. He takes Huntington in West Virginia as his starting point for a ‘seed [...]

I’d had a hard day, punctuated by anger, pain, and death. Yes, really. It says something for the misery of McDonald’s that I suddenly craved it. Since the age of, oh, about 14, I haven’t gone to McDonald’s. But small children have changed all that: I’ve tried to persuade my seven-year-old nephews of the merits [...]

By Catriona McGrath So I thought people would like to know that a friend of mine came to visit from Canada and brought with her my new supply of Kraft dinner  Sadly, Peter won’t let me do another blog on delicious luminous mac and cheese but thankfully I rediscovered another gem to rave about. It [...]

By Catriona McGrath At the risk of damaging all that wonderful credibility I like to think I’ve built up with my many (two?) reviews I would now like to draw the attention of all cheapeats readers to the wonder that is ‘Kraft dinner’.  I discovered this when I lived in Canada and I’ve been lamenting [...]

I remember when I was in Egypt a few years ago, I was gob-smacked when I saw a McDonald’s in spitting distance of the Pyramids. So when I read on BBC online that the fast food chain will be hawking their burgers bang in the middle of the Louvre; I certainly raised an eyebrow. What [...]