Milano, the Irish arm of the UK chain Pizza Express, has recently launched a new menu which was created by celebrity chef Francesco Mazzei.  Mazzei runs the Italian restaurant L’Anima in London, and has created 11 dishes for Milano.  Milano very kindly invited us along to try them out, and treated us to a very [...]

The ultimate cheap eat, an amazing comfort food, and a standard dish in every person’s gastro repertoire, Spaghetti Bolognese is made in a variety of ways depending on your own taste. It is so commonly eaten in Ireland that I have heard some people refer to it as Spag-Bol. Yuk! What a horrible name: Peter’s [...]

I was completely hooked to ‘Masterchef’ when it was on BBC and it kind of controlled my life for a while, as sad as that sounds. Due to unstoppable snacking, I had to arrange my dinner around the show and make sure I would either be eating while it was on or have dinner afterwards. [...]

I made this for dinner recently as a side for my Roast Chicken in Butter Sauce. Each time I make a tomato sauce, it’s different. It’s a wondrous, organic, changing thing and can taste so different each time, redolent of memories from the past, spag bol when I was a kid, bruschetta on my first [...]

The Guardian food site has a handy interactive guide to pasta today.  It runs through some of the most popular varieties of pasta and explains which shapes are good for which sauces, and has recipes from The Silver Spoon cookbook for each pasta shape.  The tagliatelle with lemon sounds like absolutely divine comfort food.

Check out this current offer at Milano – two pizzas for €12 until October 4th. The offer doesn’t apply on Saturdays, but does include their low-fat Leggera pizza.

A couple of weeks ago, my subconscious mind started shouting that it wanted to try Crab Linguine, and kept at it until I found some tinned crab.  I used to see it everywhere, but couldn’t find it in Tesco or Dunnes or even middle-class paradise Fallon & Byrnes.  I finally managed to find some in [...]

Pop your head into Campo di Fiore, and you’ll step back in time to 2007. Here’s a restaurant that’s full every night, and yet its prices are relatively high. I took my sister Cathy there for her birthday a few weeks ago, and my then-pregnant other sister joined us too (she’s since given birth to [...]

This week, Milano very kindly invited us to try out a new menu item that they are currently promoting: the Leggera Pizza, an interesting new low-fat pizza and salad combination.  I brought my friend and hero Geordie Sue along to try it out.  I was in the throes of a manky cold, and Sue was [...]

Milano are currently running another special offer with iVenus.com: fill out a survey at the iVenus website, and you will get a voucher for 2 for 1 on main courses in Milano. The offer is available from Monday to Thursday, until the 8th of June. Thanks to our reader SJ who tipped us off about [...]