Andrew Carey
andrew@limerickpost.ie
PAUL Williams is doing something really smart and special in Canteen.
La Cucina is responsible for stonking Italian cooking, the icon of Limerick.
Restaurant 1826 Adare is a pretty amazing restaurant, in the prettiest village of them all.
The views of John and Sally McKenna as they launch a new range of apps to coincide with their top 100 guides.
John and Sally McKenna’s annual 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland is the most radical guide to the cutting-edge of Irish cooking. With the 2015 smartguide edition, the McKennas rewrite the book, crowning Galway as the finest city to eat in Ireland and, for the first time ever, including food carts and a food shack amongst the 100 hottest places to eat throughout the country.
The food writing duo have herald Paul Williams at Canteen, Lorraine and Bruno at La Cucina and Wade Murphy at Restaurant 1826 amongst the best there is in the country. Three fine locations and epicureans worthy of their inclusion. Award winners in their own right, the three join a list of the elite eateries in Ireland.
“What unifies these places, is great cooking. These are places where people want to be, run by chefs who have served their time in some of the world’s greatest kitchens, but choose to produce something utterly different in Ireland,” explains John McKenna.
“In addition to food carts from Derry and West Cork, there is also a food shack, there is a canteen that is housed in a market, there is a surfer’s paradise in County Sligo, and there is a pizza place in Donegal run by an hotelier, a baker and a craft brewer. Some of the hottest new talents, like Kevin Murphy of idas in Dingle, Marty Murphy of Howard Street in Belfast and Dan O’Brien of Vaughan Lodge in County Clare, make their debuts in the new guide.”
Meanwhile, in the 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland there are 12 new places, including B&Bs, Guesthouses, grand hotels, and Country Houses.
In Limerick at Number One Pery Square, “Patricia Roberts and her team run a superlative operation in the beautiful One Pery Square.”
While at the Mustard Seed – “Dan Mullane understands feng shui. He knows how to put the right thing in exactly the right places. He can dress a room, a table, like few others can.”
The Apps are available from both iTunes and Google Play at a cost of €2.99 each.
