I’ve got my Christmas presents more or less organised now and am looking forward to only having to buy DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS FOOD for the next couple of days.  Hurray! I won’t be the one cooking Christmas dinner this year so don’t need to get a turkey or a ham, but do need to get the [...]

Looking for some ideas from you, our lovely readers.  My work department had booked our Christmas dinner in a tapas restaurant next Thursday (15th Dec). Unfortunately the restaurant just cancelled as they had double-booked us.  Now we need to find another restaurant in Dublin city centre that is affordable, nice and will seat 19 people.  [...]

We’ve been fortunate this Christmas, with samples of festive treats coming from Superquinn and now Marks & Spencer. They sent us a bag with some party food, sweet Christmas treats and a festive soup. Mini Chicken Kievs (€6.79) – these little breaded kievs can be oven baked. I’ve been ranting on here recently about how [...]

I’ve been at a couple of Christmas events in pubs recently where party food was served. You’ll all be familiar with what we got: large platters of food all the colours of the beige rainbow. Sausages, wedges, onion bhajis, chicken goujons, chips, garlic mushrooms. Everything was deep fried. One particularly dreadful platter came accompanied with [...]

Superquinn, Cheapeats and the Irish Independent’s Love Food magazine are sponsoring this great giveaway: three copies of Superquinn’s first cookbook ‘A Passion for Food’ accompanied by a €75 Superquinn gift card. It’s been one of our most popular competitions ever, with over 400 entries. We wish we had cookbooks and vouchers for all of you, [...]

Superquinn recently sent us a nifty cooler bag with a selection of festive foods to try out and write about here.  They chose a few items from their traditional Christmas range – Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and cranberry sauce; and some party foods – cocktail sausages, pate and ribs.  The bag also contained a bottle [...]

The lucky winner of a pair Taste of Christmas tickets, courtesy of Marks & Spencer, as chosen by the random number generator is: Here are your random numbers: 51 Timestamp: 2010-11-24 23:13:40 UTC So congratulations John Murphy! You and a friend have won free entry to the Dublin Convention Centre for this festive event. We [...]

Dublin’s first Taste of Christmas Festival takes place on the 26th – 28th November in the Convention Centre Dublin. The event features live cookery demonstrations from Gino D’Acampo, Kevin Dundon, Catherine Fulvio and more; tasting menus from top restaurants; Christmas craft workshops and gift shopping. Marks and Spencer are the headline sponsors, and have generously [...]

Readers who live in Dublin and who enjoy Christmas and fanciness, might want to head along to Fallon & Byrne this Thursday for their Christmas Extravaganza.  They will be laying on wine tastings and samples of food from their 50 artisan suppliers.  Fallon & Byrne is a pretty high-end and expensive shop, but refreshingly, this [...]

Christmas dinner, tins of sweets, lots of cheese, Christmas TV, shiny wrapped presents, boxes of crisps and biscuits, the post-meal walk: it’s that time of year again. I’ll be going to my parents for Christmas dinner as usual, and as usual I’ll spend the day topping up the hot ports and arguing over TV by [...]