Author: catriona
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Review: Early bird at Star Anise, Cork
A few weeks ago I helped a friend move apartment and as a thank you she took me out for dinner. We went to Star Anise on Bridge Street in Cork and availed of the early bird offer: 2 courses for €23.95 or 3 for €28.95. Sadly I didn’t take particularly good notes from the…
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Lukewarm review: Greene’s Restaurant, Cork
A few months ago, Jimmy and I headed to Greene’s on McCurtain street in order to avail of the menu for Dine In Cork week. Greene’s would be a little out of our budget normally, with mains at €25 or so, but at €25 for three courses and tea or coffee it seemed worth a…
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Wednesday Wind-down: Cat’s super easy chilli
One of the girls I work with occasionally brings in leftovers from her dinners which she very generously distributes to the rest of us poor street urchins. One of these dinners was vegetarian chilli, which was absolutely delicious. She gave me the recipe which turned out to be incredibly easy to make – especially if,…
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Polish Delight
Years ago a friend of mine introduced me to the joy of pierogies and I’ve never looked back. I tried forcing them on Peter but he didn’t really take to them so I’m going to spread the love through blog instead. Pierogies are a type of dumpling found in any Polski-sklep in the country and…
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Review: Di Bella, Athlone
I went home to visit my family in Athlone this weekend, so we decided to go out for dinner on Saturday night to celebrate my parent’s wedding anniversary. I grew up in Athlone and my family still live there; without being accused of bias I think I can honestly say that Athlone is generously supplied…
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Customer disservice in supermarkets
Bad customer service in a supermarket? Leave your own personalised rant in our comments – but please don’t name names! Angry Rant #1, by Catriona McGrath Let me start by saying I am never shopping in Tesco again. I’ve said this before but always gone back, drawn in by the convenience of its many locations…