Cafe Paradiso, no meat necessary
Cafe Paradiso Food style/ethnicity: Vegetarian
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Price: 40 - 50 (Euro)
**Location**: <p>16 Lancaster Quay Cork
Ireland Food rating: 5 out of 5 Decor rating: 4 out of 5 Service rating: 4 out of 5 As a traditional meat and two meat kind of guy (see my recent Meatapalooza tour of Austin, Tx), I’ve always been in two minds about going to Cafe Paradiso. On the one hand, everyone raves about the food, on the other, I need my dead animal products.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Bandon Farmer's Market nearly here
Bandon Farmer’s Market Sat, 01 Apr 2006 at 10:00 AM
The Old Market Garden
Bandon, Co Cork
Ireland
Update 1: The times above have been confirmed and here is the official flyer. I'll definitely be there.
It had been thought that the sad passing of Peter Crowley, who had been the main driving force behind the setting up of a Farmer’s Market in Bandon, would result in the plan being shelved.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Tips for Father's Day
The traditional Mother’s Day treat in our house is to get a nice simple poached eggs on toast breakfast in bed which the kids can easily help with. This year, as wifey is up the pole, soft eggs were a no-no and hard poached eggs are pooh, so we needed an alternative.
On Saturday, in a flash of inspiration I checked out “Easy Entertaining” by Darina Allen. My lovely parents got this for me at Christmas.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 27, 2006
Goat's Cheese and Pregnancy
We were in The English Market on Friday getting a few bits. I was buying the membrillo in Iago which is the bigger of the two cheese places. In passing, as Catherine is preggers, I asked if they had any pasteurised goat’s cheese. The person I asked didn’t know but one of the other ladies came over and said that no goat’s cheese or sheep’s cheese is safe to eat during pregnancy because listeria is not killed by pasteurisation.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 27, 2006
Boqueria Tapas Cork
Boqueria Food style/ethnicity: Spanish Tapas
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Hours: Pub Hours - Pub Hours
Price: 6 - 12 (Euro)
**Location**: <p>6 Bridge Street Cork Co Cork
Ireland Food rating: 4 out of 5 Decor rating: 5 out of 5 Service rating: 3 out of 5 Two and a half years after leaving, I have finally left the building. To celebrate getting rid of me, we had my bye bye meal in Boqueria Tapas in Cork City the other night.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 27, 2006
Foodie Podcasts - From truffles to roadkill
UPDATE 1: I am re-publishing this post as I did a great dis-service to Adam over at Men In Aprons by confusing his Podcast with another one. MIA is a lighthearted foodie podcast where Adam is the main presenter and he riffs with his wife and friends in the room about food related topics. Adam sent me a great e-mail describing some of the background to MIA and I have to say I really like his attitude and approach.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, March 25, 2006
Dammit, there goes that plan
My genius syrup-a-day plan foiled.
[tags]Roches Stores, Syrups[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 24, 2006
I swear, the queues of screaming fans were out the door of Roches Stores Cork
“What’s that you’re wearing?”
“It’s Hope by Ronan.”
“Is that kind of like a St Jude Miraculous Medal?”
Yeah, yeah I know it’s for “Charedee” but apart from your granny buying you this instead of socks, who does he think the target market is? Other talented singer superstars like himself? Gift Grub fans being ironic? And why does Ronan look like he is checking his arm-pit for B.O.?
So many questions, so little interest.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 24, 2006
Live From The Field
After a night of pints. Or rioja actually.
[](http://conoroneill.com/wp-photos/20060323-032540-10.jpg) And when I say field, I obviously mean bus station. This is really just a post to test that the latest Postie plugin is still working and I can still send picture messages straight from my phone to my blog. Sweet. [tags]Postie, Bus Eireann[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 23, 2006
Waterfall Farm Shop - Why aren't there more places like this?
We were over in Ovens recently looking at patio “toppings” in Irish Aggregates. On the way back I finally decided to check out Waterfall Farm Shop. I’ve known about it for more than two years and passed it a few times but just never took the extra few minutes to have a look.
The farm also appears to have a food distribution business as they had several branded vans parked in the yard.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 21, 2006