Review of The Poacher's Inn
The Poacher’s Inn is the nearest eatery/pub to our house. In a previous incarnation as Ted Amber’s it was an ok pub and a pretty poor restaurant that was barely above the level of a carvery.
The place was bought maybe 18 months ago (or even longer?) and reports have been steadily good. I had a pub lunch there recently and was very impressed so we decided to try the full restaurant last night.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, January 19, 2008
Review of Hugh's Chicken Run
This is less of a review and more of a vote of support. Last week Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall kicked off a campaign to get people eating Free Range Chicken. He did this through a series of compelling programmes comparing intensively raised chicken production with Free Range.
Because no-one would let him film in a “normal” chicken production unit, he was forced to build his own. He split it down the middle with half as free range and half as intensive.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, January 13, 2008
Review of Buddha Bar Paris
We all know to expect snooty service in Paris but I’ve rarely found that and have enjoyed most meals that I’ve had there. So I was a bit gobsmacked by the Jean Marie Le Pen supporters running Buddha Bar in Paris.
The “evening” unfolded like this.
We’re at Le Web 3 conference in Paris and we want to get some food. We also want to do so near the NetVibes party later on Rue de Rivoli Tariq Krim says that it isn’t a good area for food but Buddha Bar is ok.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, January 6, 2008
Where is this Greece place you speak of?
BBC online reported an earthquake in Greece. They felt the need to locate it.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, January 6, 2008
Irish Blog Awards Nominations Now Open
You can now vote over on the blog awards site for your favourite blogs and posts in a bunch of different categories. Sad to see that some of my fave bloggers like Sweary pretty much stopped in 2007 but glad to see some great new voices out there. In my nominations I tried to pick as many new people as possible. Here’s hoping 2008 will see even more great writing.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Review of Science Museum London
[Science Museum London](http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/), 25 Exhibition Road,London,SW7 2DD,UK"You need two days to do this properly. I felt like a small child runnning around looking at some of the incredible displays. "On our yokel trip to London recently we spent an afternoon in the Science Museum. One Elec Engineer and one Mech Engineer had an incredible day bouncing from exhibit to exhibit.
There are too many things to describe but a few of the highlights for me were.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, December 16, 2007
How to render me speechless
Hand me this receipt in a bar in Paris after I order four bottles of beer:
Next time I’ll order wine.
Full review of the worst service I’ve encountered in 39 years coming soon.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, December 13, 2007
Car Sharing coming to Cork
Michael Newham just left a comment on my post about car-sharing. It looks like this is going to happen next year. It’s a great idea.
Our company ‘Mendes - GoCar’ will be providing the car-sharing service in Cork City Centre. We hope to have it operational by May the 1st 2008.
Please see the Wikipedia article for a good overview of what Car-Sharing is about.
All our ‘GoCars’ will have dedicated parking spaces ‘GoBases’ near high residential and business nodes of population.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, December 13, 2007
90-L-1944 attempted to murder my family today
The savage at the wheel of 90-L-1944 came within a hair’s breadth of killing me, all my children, my mother in law, all of those in an oncoming vehicle and everyone in his own vehicle 10 minutes ago.
This cretin who clearly rates his own life as worthless carried out a suicidal overtaking manouvre of my car just before Bandon with a stream of cars bearing down on us. If I hadn’t seen him in my side mirror and swerved into the road margin at the last second, there would have been a fatal three car collision.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, December 9, 2007
Love food blogs? You'll adore Gastronom.ie
I have to apologise to Damien for not blogging this until now. He has put together one of those simple, beautifully executed ideas called Gastronom.ie. It collects all of the food writing from a set of Irish bloggers into one place. So if you are sick of bouncing around from blog to blog to blog and you really aren’t into this whole geeky RSS idea, then you’ll become addicted to this site.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, December 9, 2007