I’ve been trawling through the very excellent BBC Good Food website in order to learn some new healthy dishes and avoid dying of boredom while eating healthily.  I found many lovely recipes including a great one for Sicilian Fish Stew. I tried it out, made a few tweaks, used a generous hand with the lemon [...]

We put the call out for interesting but healthy recipes last week and a few of our commenters came back with some real gems.  Lovely long time reader and commenter Nanazolie shared this delicious veggie lasagne recipe with us.  It’s hard to imagine a lasagne being healthy, but if you use wholemeal pasta and go [...]

I wasn’t even bothered starting a fight with the food around the RDS, that big concert and event venue on Dublin’s leafy southside. Ah, the RDS. Hulking, anonymous, and cold, home of the UCD exams back in my student days, and a trigger for grey, pallid memories of long-forgotten and tiring lunches in between tests. [...]

Milano are running a number of promotions at the moment to support Oxfam Ireland, and this one is particularly appealing: donate €1 to Oxfam in a Milano restaurant, and get a free main course (when you buy one other full priced main course). This offer is valid every day from November 15th – December 5th.  [...]

Competition closed. Check back again to see if you’re the lucky winner. Passionate pizza fanatics are being given the chance to star on the Milano menu for the first time. Milano has just launched a nationwide challenge to cook up the ultimate pizza idea and is inviting everyone to come up with imaginative suggestions that [...]

Last week I gave a gushing review of ‘Made in Italy – Food and Stories’ by Giorgio Locatelli and my admiration for this Italian recipe book has not waned. In fact, since trying out a few more recipes, I have not stopped banging on about it to friends. I think they’re still my friends. The [...]

Although it has been out for a couple of years, I have only just come across the incredible Italian cookbook ‘Made in Italy – Food and Stories’ by Giorgio Locatelli. I have been a fan of his since seeing his recipes in the Observer Food Monthly but having over 600 pages of his dishes is [...]

You have to try this Italian dessert, it’s Baked Amaretti and Vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream – outrageously good. It is from the recipe book ‘Falling Cloudberries’ by Tessa Kiros. With a really rich, full-bodied taste, it’s a winner if you’re looking to impress. I went all out and bought the ingredients from The [...]

Milano are running a €15 set menu offer at the moment – your €15 gets you Doughballs or Garlic Bread, a pizza from a decent selection and a glass of wine or a beer.  You just have to fill out a quick form at their website www.milanooffers.ie and you will get a printable voucher. The [...]

I probably don’t really need to review the food in Steps of Rome: it’s such a Dublin institution that I’m sure everyone knows about it already.  But just in case there is anyone out there who still hasn’t tried their pizza…Steps of Rome is on Chatham Street, off Grafton Street. It’s been there as long [...]