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Gaining a Michelin star, or two, requires a massive investment in terms of time, sweat and hard cash. Is it worth it?

Christmas dinner starts here

Each week until December 25th, we’ll be bringing you a selection of recipe suggestions to help you plan an epic festive feast

Islands, offal and a bicycle buffet on the menu for West Cork food festival

Jam-packed programme for 10-day celebration of food and drink

A pescatarian paradise in the west

Eat fish but not meat? A fintastic menu in February will make your weekend in Co Mayo

Ireland's top chefs on the allure and danger of Michelin stars

A Michelin star is the pinnacle for many chefs – but often there is a price to be paid

Electric Picnic stage times: Electric Arena, Cosby, Little Big, Theatre of Food and more

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

Food file: Saba marks Thai festival with five-course banquet

Plus: Clodagh McKenna demonstrates breadmaking; west Cork gears up for its annual food festival; and Italian chef Alberto Magnano gives a pasta masterclass

Discount retailer Dealz to open in former Epicurean Food Hall

No objections received by city council to application, which grants change of use to retail

Food File: from lobster oil to cycling chefs

Marie-Claire Digby rounds up this week's food news

Let our five Michelin-starred chefs plan your Christmas dinner

We asked chefs from Michelin-starred Irish restaurants to tackle five fantastic courses

Food file: New chef at Fallon & Byrne, baking classes in Sligo, tea time hotel treats

The weekly food news round-up from Marie-Claire Digby

Ireland’s Michelin-starred restaurants celebrate upturn

Top eateries report significant improvement in business after ‘a nightmare five years’

Andy McFadden, Michelin man: ‘I kept getting flashbacks to Guilbaud’s’

Interview: Four years ago McFadden, from Tallaght, was made London’s youngest Michelin-starred chef – not bad for someone who was told by Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud that he wouldn’t make it

Tributes paid to chef and critic Paolo Tullio at funeral

Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin

Taste of Dublin gets started under cloudless skies

Derry Clarke, Ross Lewis, Kevin Thornton, Michel Roux Jr to feature at food festival

Eyeballs and pigs’ heads anyone?

Lords & Ladles is a new cookery show where Irish chefs recreate what it was like to prepare food in a 17th century big house

Select: From literature to design – with all you can eat in between

Food festival season continues this month, with gardening, design and literary events featuring lots of edible elements

My Obituary: Fearghal O’Nuallain, an Irish explorer who cycled the globe

A series in which people help to pen their own obituaries: ‘O’Nuallain was a trained chef who got out of the kitchen, and a dyslexic geography teacher who discovered the world’

Having good food on location, as Jeremy Clarkson might tell you, is very important

Lights, camera, cooker – keeping the show on the road

Food File: Provenance is priority at food writers’ awards

Winners of 21st IFWG awards are among the most hard working and visionary food producers in Ireland

Ballymaloe ballyhoo: did AA Gill’s bad restaurant review do serious damage?

The ‘Sunday Times’ food critic slated one of Ireland’s most respected restaurants – but loved the Farmgate Cafe, in the English Market in Cork

Food file: the weekly food news round-up

Butlers chocolate classes, Glebe Brethan cheese, Stript Snacks and fairtrade African goodies

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