Author: peter

  • Even Tesco says we're wasting too much food

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    That crinkled bag of salad with mushy brown juice, lingering on at the end of your fridge. The old banana which, even as the brown dots consume the skin, you’ll get around to eating any day now. And the sinking feeling of guilt every time you look at the half-pan of bread, and feel torn…

  • More overcharging at Tesco

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    More shenanigans from Tesco. Our reader Den McCarthy gets in touch to say:  When buying Tesco brown rice in Tralee, I could have bought a 1Kg bag for €1.84… or a 2Kg bag for €4.99 Buying in bulk is usually cheaper, but not in Tesco, where if you don’t watch the price tags, you’ll be charged an extra €1.31…

  • What are you eating this summer? Neon's Chu Chee Curry

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    Here’s a quick recommendation from my favourite local takeaway, Neon on Camden Street. The Chu Chee curry. F**k yeah. Cheap? Meh, not particularly, takeaways are rarely cheap. But this curry – extra hot, with vegetables, lime leaves, hot chilli paste, and your choice of chicken, beef, tiger prawns and tofu – was a stark and…

  • Query: Where can I find spanakopita in Dublin?

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    Summer! Picnic! Spanakopita! Huh? I love spankopita, a savoury Greek pastry filled with spinach, feta, herbs, and spices. It’s so delicious, and I’ve made it on many occasions, but it’s a bit of a pain, taking the guts of an hour, with 28 and a half million ingredients and leaving a messy kitchen in its…

  • Bring Back Wibbly Wobbly Wonders… and Tiger Tots

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    Where are Wibbly Wobbly Wonders?  Easily my favourite childhood ice-pop, combining banana and strawberry ice-creams, lemon jelly, and chocolate on the same stick. Every year, HB take over public spaces with their summer ad campaign, encouraging Ireland to pretend that it’s not going to rain all summer, and to eat copious amounts of ice-cream. But…

  • Review: Camden Rotisserie, Dublin

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    The former gastronomic black hole that was Camden Street has developed a nice little cheap eats scene. Green19, where all mains cost €10, is well established. Neon‘s take on Asian street food has proven popular. Cafe Sofia deserves more praise, more often. Camden Rotisserie, which serves rotisserie chicken, also struck me as reasonably priced when…

  • Allergy advice

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    One of my favourite hobbies is winding up my coeliac friend Simon, by asking him if he is also allergic to the tooth fairy, homoeopathic potions, and levitation.There are many coeliacs out there, but I suspect – and I refuse to offer any evidence whatsoever for this – that some people with a self-declared gluten…

  • Readers Recommend: Sol Rio, Westport, Co. Mayo

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    My great friend Roisin McGarr sends in this gorgeous review of a county Mayo favourite: Every time I’m vaguely anywhere in the vicinity of Mayo I make up any excuse to detour and take me in to Westport just to go to one of my top favourite restaurants in Ireland, Sol Rio. Every time I…

  • Product Review: Donnelly's Salads

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    Food writers are lucky enough to receive lots of samples in the post from time to time. These samples tend to consist primarily of fatty and sugary foods. Recently, we received a big giant box of many different salads from a PR company representing Donnelly’s Salads, an Irish owned company based in north Co. Dublin,…

  • Review: Indie Dhaba, South Anne Street, Dublin

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    It was someone’s birthday, or something, or nothing. I forget. When my friend Simon suggested “the new Indian tapas place” off Grafton Street, I rolled my eyes and contemplated whether to moan, complain, give out, or rant about the proliferation of tapas and “tapas-style” places popping up everywhere of late. I went with rant, pointing…