Food & Drink
Shu Restaurant: Just don’t end up in the basement
Choosing a restaurant is as much down to mood, sometimes, as it is to the kind
of food you want.
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Thyme restaurant : Successor to Shanks sticks to quality
Saturday, 27 September 2008
When one of the best chefs in the country dies tragically in a car accident,
the successor attempting to fill his shoes is either brilliant or nuts.
Comments: 2
Supermarkets bow to cash-strapped shoppers
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Northern Ireland’s retail giants are starting to respond to public outcry and
mounting pressure over the cost of food, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal
today.
Comments: 3
Belfast’s slimmer sheds half her body weight
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
A Belfast woman has managed to turn her life around by shedding an amazing 11
stone in just 18 months.
Comments: 7
Guinness comes home . . .to Co Kildare
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
History is set to come full circle for Guinness as it returns to its roots in
Co Kildare.
Comment: 1
Dying for a drink
Saturday, 13 September 2008
In a new BBC One Northern Ireland documentary, William Crawley looks at
Northern Ireland’s relationship with its drug of choice, alcohol.
Here, he reveals what role drink plays in his life and poses some questions
many people might not want to answer
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Aw shucks: Galway oyster festival kicks off
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Up to 2,000 foodies were gathering in the south Galway village of Clarenbridge
last night to pay homage to the not-so-humble oyster.
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Celebrity chef stabs himself with kitchen knife
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Antonio Carluccio, the Italian chef famous for his restaurant chain and
television appearances, has been taken to hospital after an incident in
which he is said to have stabbed himself in the chest with a kitchen knife.
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Ten store cupboard secrets
Saturday, 13 September 2008
We may have upped our fruit and vegetable intake, but we’re still ignoring
many nutritious foods in our kitchens, writes Jane Feinmann
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New Zealand wines off to a flying start
Saturday, 13 September 2008
I'm a pretty optimistic person but I've given up believing the meteorologists'
claims that we're still going to get a proper summer. The current weather
pattern — grey giving way to occasional flashes of sun or showers — is as
good as it's going to get before the autumn leaves begin to fall.
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Cupcake wars: Celebrity favourite Sprinkles launch legal battles against rivals
Saturday, 6 September 2008
They are America's biggest food craze since gourmet coffee. Now frosted
cupcakes have cemented their standing as a staple of the national diet – by
tapping into the business community's insatiable appetite for legal disputes.
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Sole food at the Mourne Seafood Bar
Saturday, 6 September 2008
It may not be posh nosh but comfort cuisineis always on the menu at the Mourne
Seafood Bar in Belfast.
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Eight Ulster pubs make Michelin Guide
Friday, 5 September 2008
Eight pubs in Northern Ireland have been listed among the best in the UK and
Ireland for grabbing some grub, according to a prestigious food guide.
Comments: 2
Our Polish sausages in demand
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Specialist Polish sausages made in Northern Ireland are being snapped up from
supermarkets across the UK.
Comment: 1
Amazing grapes: How well do you know your wine?
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
'Decanter' magazine says wines costing more than £6.99 are wasted on most of
us. No problem, says Anthony Rose, there's plenty worth quaffing, at that
price – or even less
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Rankin and Nairn in battle of the chefs
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Top Northern Ireland chef Paul Rankin will be involved in a live cook-off
challenge against the culinary skills of Scottish counterpart Nick Nairn as
part of a major food and drink festival later this month.
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Buckfast: The iconic tonic goes from strength to strength
Monday, 1 September 2008
On the poverty-stricken housing schemes of west Scotland, it is known as "Commotion
Lotion", "Wreck The Hoose Juice" and, most commonly, "Buckie".
Comments: 10
Wareing outcooks 'stretched' Ramsay
Thursday, 28 August 2008
For more than a decade, Marcus Wareing was Gordon Ramsay's publicity-shy "shadow",
toiling over the stove for up to 18 hours a day to meet the exacting kitchen
standards set by his motormouth boss.
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160 jobs boost as two restaurants open in city
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
An international ‘casual dining’ company said today it would be creating 160
jobs with the opening of two restaurants in Belfast.
Comment: 1
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• Steven Beacom: We must still build team around Healy
ONE point from six. That’s Northern Ireland’s tally in the World Cup qualifying campaign so far. Not too healthy, is it?
• Ed Curran: Why it is time for the GAA to start playing on a wider field
How do you view the GAA today? Not so long ago, such a question might have filled the letters column of the Belfast Telegraph or led to jammed switchboards at the BBC or UTV, if they dared broadcast a match.
• Pol O Muiri: How Vladimir has really Put boot into US
There have been many moments in local politics when we have all been watching the news or reading the paper and found our jaws dropping while we utter: “Did he just say what I think he just said?”
• Robert Fisk: When it comes to Palestine, the US just doesn’t get it
Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word.
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In America it’s being billed as the revenge of Joe Six-Pack. The Joe Six-Pack in question being the US Joe Public who rebelled this week against George Bush’s plans for a bail-out of fat-cat Wall Street bankers.
• Laurence White: Why shameful act should have remained very much in the past
John Dallat SDLP MLA described the failure of Limavady Council on Monday night to confer the Freedom of the Borough on the Rev David Armstrong and Fr Kevin Mullan as a “night of shame”. He is wrong.
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