Corinna Hardgrave
@corinnahardgrave.bsky.social
Irish Times Restaurant Critic | Food & Travel Writer
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Today's review... a booth that needs to be ripped out and some very good sea bream in Suertudo
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Suertudo restaurant review: flashes of culinary brilliance don’t excuse the indignity of exile in a cramped booth
This Mexican rebirth of Dillinger’s in Ranelagh has flashes of brilliance but it’s far from flawless
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January 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Today's review... a booth that needs to be ripped out and some very good sea bream in Suertudo
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Kaldero: Press Up pitched this as an exciting new dining experience... it was not what I expected!
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Press Up’s Kaldero: A dining experience that feels more like being fed by an accountant than a chef
A calculated exercise in bean counting that amounts to culinary gaslighting
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January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Kaldero: Press Up pitched this as an exciting new dining experience... it was not what I expected!
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I've always loved Tang, and their Thur & Fri dinner is well worth booking. My review here:
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Tang restaurant review: Delicious food, charming service, keen prices ... this is in a league of its own
Eat for four for the price of two in Tang’s latest outpost – and that’s not a January deal
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January 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I've always loved Tang, and their Thur & Fri dinner is well worth booking. My review here:
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A beautiful start to 2025 in Connemara
January 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A beautiful start to 2025 in Connemara
And here are my top restaurants for 2024. A really good mix, great to have so many good restaurants to visit.
Restaurant of the year, best value and Michelin predictions: Our reviewer’s top picks of 2024
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Restaurant of the year, best value and Michelin predictions: Our reviewer’s top picks of 2024
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Restaurant of the year, best value and Michelin predictions: Our reviewer’s top picks of 2024
Corinna Hardgrave’s favourite restaurants of a year that, despite the prevailing gloom, brought many pleasant surprises
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December 20, 2024 at 6:14 PM
And here are my top restaurants for 2024. A really good mix, great to have so many good restaurants to visit.
Restaurant of the year, best value and Michelin predictions: Our reviewer’s top picks of 2024
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Restaurant of the year, best value and Michelin predictions: Our reviewer’s top picks of 2024
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My top takeaways from the year in @irishtimes.bsky.social. Quite a few amazing places here. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Our restaurant reviewer’s top takeaway picks of 2024
Corinna Hardgrave’s favourite food to grab and go, from the best baked goods and jollof rice to fluffy falafels and passion-infused pizza
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December 20, 2024 at 11:20 AM
My top takeaways from the year in @irishtimes.bsky.social. Quite a few amazing places here. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Sunday lunch is such a luxury, and this one is a bit different. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Seafood Café restaurant review: A Sunday lunch seafood feast is a wonderful thing, especially at this price
It’s not often a cocktail is included in a fixed-price menu, but the turbot for two is a bit on the small side
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December 14, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Sunday lunch is such a luxury, and this one is a bit different. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Worth noting, the mid-week two for €20 cocktail offer is running in December. 🍸🍹
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Indo-Chine restaurant review: There’s a buzz about this vibrant Dublin 4 neighbourhood place
Fun for cocktails and dishes with global flavours, this has Christmas celebrations written all over it
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December 5, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Worth noting, the mid-week two for €20 cocktail offer is running in December. 🍸🍹
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I had many long lunches and dinners in The Unicorn in the past. It's now back open. Here's my take on the reboot.
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The Unicorn restaurant review: Legendary Dublin hotspot returns, but does the magic?
The spirit of this famous city centre eatery is lurking under teething problems that need to be banished, and soon
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December 1, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I had many long lunches and dinners in The Unicorn in the past. It's now back open. Here's my take on the reboot.
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Living the dream in Tuscany!
Lovely to chat with Niall and Paari O'Toole about their Poggio Golo vineyard in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany.
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Lovely to chat with Niall and Paari O'Toole about their Poggio Golo vineyard in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany.
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The Italian job: We gave up our legal careers to set up a vineyard
Following a post-holiday dream, Irish-born Niall O’Toole and his family now run a wine and holiday business in Tuscany
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November 27, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Living the dream in Tuscany!
Lovely to chat with Niall and Paari O'Toole about their Poggio Golo vineyard in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany.
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Lovely to chat with Niall and Paari O'Toole about their Poggio Golo vineyard in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany.
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I am glad to see this story. SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
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SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
Barry Group says move ‘reflects our commitment to maintaining a retail environment that resonates with the values of our customers and partners’
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November 26, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I am glad to see this story. SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
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Worth a read - the economics of running a restaurant. Getting harder, not easier.
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‘I honestly have no idea how I’m going to save my restaurant from going under’
Irish restaurateurs face the hardest of times as the soaring cost of ingredients adds to an already challenging climate
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November 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Worth a read - the economics of running a restaurant. Getting harder, not easier.
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November 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM
I’m new here, so a little bit of what I do. I’m a food and culinary historian concentrating mainly on Ireland at @ucc.bsky.social where I manage the MA in Food Studies and Irish Foodways- see here 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐔𝐂𝐂:
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Today's review... Foret, hopefully this is the start of many more restaurants like this in Dublin. @irishtimes.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Forêt restaurant review: A masterclass in French classic cooking in Dublin 4
From the owners of Forest Avenue, Forêt is a love letter to the French bistro, where every dish is cooked with precision and served with an unwavering respect for tradition
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November 23, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Today's review... Foret, hopefully this is the start of many more restaurants like this in Dublin. @irishtimes.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...