The Wright Group has announced plans to significantly expand its successful Hogs & Heifers restaurant brand and is actively seeking new locations in Ireland and Northern Ireland.   The award-winning Irish hospitality group, owned by businessman Michael JF Wright, is planning on adding up to six new Hogs & Heifers outlets to the existing two and is now appealing to owners of potential venues to make contact.  [...]

The Trigon Hotel Group has launched a recruitment drive to fill up to 40 positions at The Metropole Hotel and Cork International Hotel.  A recruitment fair will be held at The Metropole Hotel, Cork City on Thursday, September 14th 2023 from 1pm to 7pm. The positions include a range of full and part-time flexible roles across all departments. The jobs may suit parents, students, graduates or anyone [...]

Butter Boy: Collected Stories & Recipes is the fifth cookbook by the chef, TV personality and Irish restaurateur Paul Flynn. Published by boutique Irish publishing house Nine Bean Rows, Butter Boy is the complete collection of all 152 articles and over 450 recipes from Paul Flynn’s tenure as food writer for the Irish Times from three unusual years, November 2019 to October 2022, a time when cooking [...]

The highly anticipated Lion’s Den competition is back for its sixth year, organised by Bradley: The Brand Agency in partnership with the four Local Enterprise Offices in the Dublin region. The event promises an exciting opportunity for budding and established food and beverage brands in Dublin. This year, there will be prizes under two categories: The Start-Up Award, for brands trading up to two years, and the [...]

Kilkenny’s Savour Food Festival is set to return from October 27-30 and the weekend is set to have most of its energy produced from bio-fuel, meaning that the festival’s sustainability will be even further enhanced this year. Events on the scale of Savour depend on electricity from generators to power the festival and outside of the transport of visitors to festivals, diesel generators are the biggest contributor [...]

Halloween will be a spooktacular experience at the Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny -where their seasonal celebrations are of prehistoric proportions!  Over the midterm break, your family can watch dinosaurs, ghouls and goblins come back to life on a terribly fun ‘wicked walk’ through the hotel’s famously family friendly attraction, Jurassic Newpark. The Wicked Walk activities include ghoulish face painting, halloween themed fun and games,  eerie dino talks [...]

Visitors to Waterford’s Harvest Festival this September 8th to 10th are invited to step into a world of culinary curiosity and thought-provoking discussions as GIY (Grow It Yourself) proudly presents a captivating lineup of talks and debates that delve into the heart of pressing food issues with a series of free talks on the ‘Food Matters’ stage, proudly sponsored by Waterford Chamber Skillnet. The food sustainability talks [...]

Dublin’s newest meeting and events venue, the Dublin Royal Convention Centre, adjacent to the new Le Pole Square is now open, under the same ownership as Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin and Velvære Spa — the final phase of significant development on this historical site. This latest addition to the stylish and sophisticated city centre hotel is a brand new, state of the art, purpose-built convention centre. Offering [...]

The words Buon appetito will be heard many times this September at the five-star InterContinental Dublin as the Hotel’s Executive Chef Alberto Rossi hosts an Italian pop-up restaurant offering guests and diners authentic and genuine Italian food and wine. Rossi's @Seasons will be open from the 7th until the 30th of September, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 6pm to 9.30pm. Alberto, born in Milan to an Italian father and Irish mother, [...]

To celebrate Pride and the LGBTQ+ community in Ireland this June, the Hard Rock Hotel Dublin has teamed up with renowned Irish fashion designer Colin Horgan to re-imagine one of the hotel’s superior guest bedrooms with one very simple brief – Love Out Loud. The new room, which will open to the public on Dublin’s Lord Edward Street today, has been designed by Horgan to create a safe space that feels inclusive to everyone while paying [...]

SommiT is a gathering of food and wine professionals from within the hospitality industry. Attendees will include restaurant professionals both service and culinary, retail sales buyers and sellers, food and wine writers and broadcasters, hoteliers, wine importers and producers and their distributors. The event includes discussion and debate with international authorities in many and varied areas of hospitality. SommiT features an experiential Wine and Food Synergy workshop [...]

The Coburg announces the theme of its second Supper Club following the initial success of Conrad Dublin's destination restaurant. Continuing the series with a focus on gin lovers, the 5-star hotel restaurant invites food enthusiasts to join the event, either dining solo or in groups, and enjoy a thoughtfully curated evening of food and gin in a comfortable and convivial setting with like-minded individuals. Guests can look forward to a three-course dinner menu crafted by Executive Head [...]

President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins together with his wife Sabina were honoured guests of the Imperial Hotel, Cork City at the weekend. The President was on an official visit to Cork to mark the National Day of Commemoration which is traditionally observed on the Sunday closest to June 11th to tie in with the anniversary of the 1921 truce.  Checking in on Saturday 8th July, President Higgins stayed [...]

Kilkenny’s much loved Newpark Hotel has announced the appointment of a new general management team to steer the 4-star property towards its ambitious future goals. The strategic appointments will see Niall Dunne, who previously held the role of Deputy Manager, and Mark Flynn, a highly experienced hospitality professional and member of the Flynn family, take up the shared general management role. The third-generation family run hotel, which [...]

Kerry based hotel group the O’Donoghue Ring Collection, is delighted to have been awarded the Operational Excellence in Hospitality, Tourism, & Leisure accolade at this year’s Operational Excellence Awards held at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin on Thursday (15 June).   Presided over by a world-class judging panel drawn from the industry, academia and the broader stakeholder community, the annual Operational Excellence Awards aim to recognise and reward the individuals, teams and organisations who have made a commitment to achieving operational excellence and [...]

John Core, culinary nutrition lead and group business manager with catering and workplace services provider Sodexo Ireland, has won the inaugural Paula Mee Applied Culinary Nutrition Memorial Award from TU Dublin. It was established earlier this year by the university’s School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology in memory of Paula, a well-known author and lecturer at the school, who was one of Ireland’s most prominent dieticians [...]

The sun shone brightly on the longest evening of the year as General Manager Nicky Logue welcomed guests to the InterContinental Dublin’s Garden Terrace party on midsummers evening. Invitees dined al fresco with Spanish guitarist Juan adding to the holiday atmosphere and enjoyed Midsummer & Paradiso cocktails, Bubbles and Rose while sampling the new summer menus developed by Executive Chef Alberto Rossi and his team. Nestling in the courtyard of the Hotel, the Garden Terrace and Veranda is [...]

The month of June is officially ‘Great Outdoors Month’ and a great opportunity to encourage friends, family and children to take some time away from the screens and harsh fluorescents and enjoy some natural beauty.  The Royal Canal Greenway and Old Rail Trail in County Westmeath offer breathtakingly scenic cycle routes that run alongside the Royal Canal and an old railway line through the Hidden Heartlands. Cycle [...]

The Westin Dublin, is set to join Autograph Collection Hotels later this year as The College Green Hotel, Autograph Collection. The new name reflects both the heritage and dynamism of the popular College Green quarter and its contemporary, yet historic locale. The renowned hotel is owned by the MHL Hotel Collection who have invested in a €10 million phased renovation over recent years. The transformation will culminate [...]

Pinergy, the clean energy supply & solutions company has today announced the launch of a €30 million fund to accelerate the delivery of solar energy to businesses across the country. Funded solar is a new service for commercial energy users that will enable them to access lower-cost renewable energy as they get ready for the energy transition. As part of this new service, Pinergy will design, install, [...]

An award-winning chef at a Cork lifestyle destination is sharing his top tips to make the most out of your barbecue experience as the weather heats up. David Rice is the newest addition to the restaurant team at The Pavilion, Ballygarvan and takes up the role as Development Chef. He is encouraging people to get creative this summer and to experiment with different flavours and joints of [...]

Popular local Chinese street food restaurant Noodlee has announced a €3m investment across Cork city and county as they are set to open 15 new stores of chain in the coming months, resulting in the creation of up to 200 jobs. The major investment in Cork’s food and hospitality industry is part of a significant expansion by the brand, who hope to bring their authentic Chinese-style cooking [...]

Nearly a year on from opening, Orwell Road, by Bereen brothers Marc and Conor, is well established in the heart of Rathgar. The modern Irish restaurant uses the best and freshest local Irish produce, and Head Chef Dan Hannigan’s cooking has won a very loyal following for this very convivial and stylish local favourite. Alongside their Summer Dinner a la carte menu, served from Tuesday to Sunday [...]