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Pi Restaurant Menu 2020, Pi Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Pi casually slid on to the Dublin Pizza scene last summer and within weeks had detonated a debate about whether it was the best pizza in the city - we were in the affirmative camp. Pizzaiola/owner Reggie White worked in an office before jacking it in to train with Darina Allen at Ballymaloe, and his obsession with pizza is evident from the first bite of the leoparded, 48 hour fermented base, with it punchy sun-ripened-tomato sauce and creamy, tangy Toons Bridge Fio de Latte on the most simple, perfect Margherita.

Uno Mas Restaurant Menus 2020, Uno Mas

Menus of the 21st Century

Etto was always going to be a hard act to follow, but owners Liz Matthews, Simon Barrett and chef Paul McNamara have made it look effortless. This Spanish-inspired restaurant feels more like Barcelona than Aungier Street, and the bar seating is some of the best in the city. The gildas (Spanish "lollipops" with guindilla peppers, anchovies and olives), chargrilled octopus and flan de queso are unmissable.

Clanbrassil House Restaurant Menus 2020, Clanbrassil House

Menus of the 21st Century

Head chef Grainne O'Keefe, one of the young guns of the Irish culinary scene, only seems to be getting better and better. Clanbrassil House is about sharing plates, mainly cooked over fire, great wine and a team that aren't interested in playing it safe, making it one of the most exciting restaurants in the city.

Chapter One Restaurant Menus 2020, Chapter One

Menus of the 21st Century

Ross Lewis Instagrams regular love letters to Irish food, marvelling at the seen on some pickled herring finished with Lambay crab, or enjoyiing the shift of seasons when roots give way to shoots. The supplier list for Chapter One is where all the good staff starts. The cheffing techniques and tweezers are deployed to enhance what has arrived through the delivery door.

L Mulligan Grocer Restaurant Menus 2020, L Mulligan Grocer

Menus of the 21st Century

Seaneen Sullivan and her business partners saw the beauty of putting great Irish ingredients into the beauty of putting great Irish ingredients into a typical pub setting so the food hugs could be as warm as the boozy ones. No laurels are being rested on here, and a halo of great food has eddied out from the foundation stone that is Mulligans, turning Stoneybatter into a terrific little food village.

Loam Restaurant Menus 2020, Loam Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

There's no place like Loam. Enda McEvoy is an ingredient nerd who makes it his business to get to know the people who grow, catch and farm his food. He treats every part of the food thoughtfully and is alway exploring ways to turn waste into taste, but not in a preachy way. Most diners won't even notice the quiet revolution he's staging behind the pass in a restaurant named after the rich crumbly soil that grows the best food.

Sage Restaurant Menu 2020, Sage Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Kevin and Reidin Aherne have become a serious employer in Midleton, with almost three dozen staff between the restaurant and casual dining operation in a stone courtyard off Main Street. Their approach is proof that if you build it on what grows and grazes and swims around you they will come. Sage's 12 mile menu always made food sense, and the success they've made of it shows others how much business sense it can make too.

Dela Restaurant Menus 2020, Dela Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

The husband and wife team of Margaret and Joe Bohan specialise in plot to plate food at their Galway restaurant, sourcing as much produce as possible on their organic farm in Moycullen in Co Galway, for their head chef, Sylvain Gatay to cook with. On the farm they're expanding their growing patches to include vegetables that would otherwise be difficult or cost-prohibitive for them to source. Think padron peppers, yellow pear tomatoes and cucamelons, alongside garlic, kalette and celery, grown sustainably and organically from seed by the Bohans. Acres of heart and soil is what makes this family restaurant so …

Tiller And Grain Restaurant Menu 2020, Tiller And Grain

Menus of the 21st Century

Claire Dowling was still testing her menu on customers when I took one of the small seats in the back of her lovely cafe and loved every mouthful. Another Ottolenghi graduate, she has brought the lunch offering in Dublin's city centre up several notches. When Niall Davidson's new place opens just up the road, later in the summer, this looks set to become quite a food quarter.

Meet Me In The Morning Menu 2020, Meet Me In The Morning

Menus of the 21st Century

Or the afternoon. It's not time-dependent. What is certain is that you will get delicious food here in this bespoke place where they pack more flavour into one bowl than some restaurants get into whole tasing menus. The sourcing is impeccable, and the opening of their second operation, Loose Canon, has not dimmed the focus that this professional operation brings to things.

Alma Restaurant Menu 2020, Alma Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

There are family operations, and then there's Alma. Six members of the Parisi family opened this Argentinean cafe earlier this year, with Alejandro and Lucrecia, the parents, in charge, and their four daughters doing everything from front of house to social media. Alma's brunch menu, with dulce de leche pancakes, and steak, eggs and chimichurri, has added something different to an eggs-Benedict-saturated scene, and customers show their appreciation by queuing down South Circular Road at weekends.

Locks Restaurant Menu 2020, Locks Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Cosy in winter, washed with simmering canal light in summer, Locks is one of my favourite restaurants anywhere. It has a lot to do with the calm sense you get when you walk in here that you are among people, chefs and front of house staff who know precisely what they're doing and how to do it.

The Greenhouse Restaurant Menu 2020, The Greenhouse Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Occasion dining with all it's props - the linen, the Frenchness, the heel-clicking precision service, the sterling-silver table scrapers - have been getting a bad rap in recent years as the trends rush towards informality. But Michael Viljanen has continued to fly the crisply starched flag. It helps that he's got a fiendish flavour sense and works French classics to perfection in the service of meals that are truly occasions.

Dax Restaurant Menu 2020, Dax Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Graham Neville's cooking feels slightly under the radar. First he was in the member's club that was Restaurant Forty One, on St Stephen's Green in Dublin. Then he moved to the business-district basement restaurant that is Dax. Throughout that cooking career he has been creating the kind of food that would be starred in another city. His food is subtle and utterly delicious.

Ichigo Ichie Restaurant Menu 2020, Ichigo Ichie Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Sitting at the chef's counter in this black-box space, you could be anywhere where deliciousness is taken deadly seriously. Dinner here could be intense, but it's not, thanks to the combination of happiness and cooking skills that Takashi Miyazaki brings to his dream restaurant. You are watching a man in his element, and the food he hands you tastes of joy.

Forest & Marcy Restaurant Menu 2020, Forest & Marcy

Menus of the 21st Century

If there were a poster child for modern Irish food in the capital, it's hard to think of a better candidate than Forest & Marcy. If there were a poster dish, the fermented potato bread with bacon and cabbage would win every time. Ciaran Sweeney and team quietly go about their business in this neighbourhood kitchen, taking the best Irish produce they can find, doing little to it and making their guests very happy.

Liath Restaurant Menu 2020, Liath Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Damien Grey's follow-up to the hugely successful Heron & Grey has already surpassed the original, with a tasting menu consisting of his most spellbinding dishes from the past few years and a newly revamped room that feels more like Scandinavia than south Co Dublin. All eyes will be on the Michelin awards this autumn to see if he regains his star, but that already seems like a done deal.

Grow Hq Restaurant Menu 2020, Grow Hq

Menus of the 21st Century

You might recognise Grow HQ as the backdrop for the RTE TV series Grow Cook Eat. In the Grow HQ cafe, the head chef, JB Dubois, works closely with the head grower, Richard Mee, to design a cafe menu that makes the most of the produce grown on site, paired with great local supplies like Seagull Bakery, with it's sourdough. All dishes are available in Little GIYer size for under 12's. Check out the monthly junior cookery club and the Grow Cook Eat children's camps held throughout the year.

Old Street Restaurant Menu 2020, Old Street Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Having two small children themselves, Mark and Adriana Fitzpatrick had family dining high on the priority list when they opened Old Street, in 2019. High chairs and nappy changing were a given, as was a thoughtful children's menu with the option of half-sized portions of adult dishes. Last year they introduced kids-eat-free Sundays (one child for each adult) and sealed their fate as the go-to family Sunday lunch spot on the northside of Dublin.

Bujo Restaurant Menu 2020, Bujo Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

The day Michael Sheary's daughter was born, in 2014, he made a promise he was going to do something to make the world a better place for her to live in. With a background in hospitality, and after several trips to the United States, he saw an opportunity for an Irish Burger joint - BuJo - with "a Michelin-starred approach to sourcing and sustainability". He hired Grainne O'Keefe (of Clanbrassil House), and they spent two years working on the concept before BuJo opened, in early 2018. Almost every ingredient they use is Irish, with grass-fed beef and potatoes from north …

Bia Rebel Menus 2020, Bia Rebel

Menus of the 21st Century

We see Ireland and Japan as two island nations with so much wonderful produce to choose from. We fuse these two cultures together to create a delicious, addictive bowl of savoury goodness. A proper meal in a bowl, for all the family.

Jibaritos Y Más: The Impacts Of Migration, Gentrification, And Cultural Maintenance On Chicago-Puerto Rican Cuisine, Emilio Araujo

Pomona Senior Theses

An analysis of the history of Puerto Rican cuisine from first contact between Indigenous Taínos and Spanish explorers to present day Chicago-Puerto Rican cuisine. This thesis will examine the development of Puerto Rican national cuisine as part of growing nationalism in the late nineteenth century and again in the early twentieth century. As Puerto Rican migrants settle in Chicago, they bring their cuisine with them and Puerto Rican national cuisine changes in their new context to become Chicago-Puerto Rican cuisine. This new cuisine grows along with the Chicago-Puerto Rican community and is impacted by transnational forces as well as gentrification …

4 Vicars Restaurant Menu 2019, 4 Vicars Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

There's a long tradition of restaurants in the South not looking to fish and seafood from the North, preferring to source from west Co Cork when a port like Kilkeel, in Co Down, is far closer. All the fish and seafood served in this lovely hilltop restaurant is landed at Kilkeel. The husband and wife team of Gareth and Kasia Reid are on a personal mission to show diners there's more to Armagh than apples.

This restaurant closed in April 2019.

School Of Culinary Arts & Food Technology - Winter Newsletter 2017, James Peter Murphy

Other resources

The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, Winter Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special civic and community activities which the students and staff members of the school have successfully completed leading up to the Winter period of 2017. The successful completion of these activities would not be possible without the active and on-going support of the 'INSPIRED' Friends of Culinary Arts (sponsors).

Mary T'S: A Restaurant Providing Healthy Food Options, Mary T. Savner

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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