The Notebook
Meals, from the notebook.
Everything we have filed under meals: what we saw, where we stayed, and what we would do differently.
Meals
Entry No. 01
At the Table
Moran's Oyster Cottage: the best oysters near Galway
The seventh-generation thatched oyster cottage twenty minutes south of Galway city, where the native Galway flat is still opened to order. What to order, when the season runs, and how to find it.
Entry No. 02
At the Table
Linnane's Lobster Bar, the pier-end oysters in New Quay
A small bar at the end of a stone pier on the north Burren coast, serving the Kelly oysters lifted from the bay outside the door.
Entry No. 03
At the Table
PJ O'Hare's, the Carlingford Lough half dozen
A blackened pub on the medieval main street of Carlingford, serving the lough's own oysters with a pint of stout and very little else.
Entry No. 04
At the Table
The long lunch at Ballymaloe
What we always send foodie friends to do first.
Entry No. 05
At the Table
Hotel breakfasts that are worth the room
Where to come downstairs slowly.
Entry No. 06
At the Table
Aniar in Galway, the tasting menu
JP McMahon's terroir room, still the city's best argument.
Entry No. 07
At the Table
Chapter One, the room that keeps getting better
Mickael Viljanen's Dublin, a year and a half on.
Entry No. 08
At the Table
Liath at Blackrock Market
Damien Grey's twenty seats, the hardest room to get into in Dublin.
Entry No. 09
At the Table
Variety Jones on Thomas Street
Keelan Higgs's room, when Dublin starts cooking like itself.
Entry No. 10
At the Table
Glas on Chatham Street
Dublin's vegetarian room, the one that converts the doubters.
Entry No. 11
At the Table
Mr Fox on Parnell Square
Anthony Smith's basement, the most fun two hours in Dublin.
Entry No. 12
At the Table
Pichet on a rainy Tuesday
Trinity Street's bistro, exactly the room you want when it's raining.
Entry No. 13
At the Table
The Greenhouse, the old room
Mickael Viljanen's first Dublin home, before Chapter One. Now closed.
Entry No. 14
At the Table
Patrick Guilbaud, still the room
Two stars, forty years in, still doing the longest lunch in Dublin.
Entry No. 15
At the Table
Bastible in Portobello
South Circular Road's neighbourhood room, with the best Sunday lunch in town.
Entry No. 16
At the Table
Forest & Marcy on a Wednesday
Leeson Street's small room, the wine list better than the room is big.
Entry No. 17
At the Table
Pilgrim's in Rosscarbery
West Cork's small village room, one of the best on the island.
Entry No. 18
At the Table
Sage in Midleton
The twelve-mile menu, the original local cooking room in East Cork.
Entry No. 19
At the Edge of the Atlantic
Wildes at the Lodge in Doolin
Above the cliffs, the dining room facing the Atlantic.
Entry No. 20
At the Table
Ichigo Ichie Cork, the counter
Takashi Miyazaki's kappo room, one of the most surprising tables in Ireland.
Entry No. 21
At the Table
Aimsir, the drive out
Cliff House to Celbridge, the Power family room outside Dublin.
Entry No. 22
At the Table
The Cork English Market for lunch
Upstairs at the Farmgate, the easiest meal in the south.
From the notebook
Editorial itineraries from Ireland.
Collected notes. A few times each season.