Hello old friends, good to be back eating out after a very long period of eating in.

AS FEW of us are travelling abroad for our summer holidays this year, these two Spanish dishes will give you that holiday feeling without leaving home.

THE jury may still be out on the benefits of devolution for the burgeoning beer industry in Northern Ireland, but there can be little doubt that state intervention has helped make Bavaria one of the regions most readily associated with good beer.

STEVE Flynn is his usual happy-clappy self, although, despite the religious adherence to a plant-based lifestyle (also incorporating yoga and dawn swims in the sea), there is nothing ‘preachy’ about this half of the Happy Pear – probably the most famous vegans in Ireland today.

FOR many of us, this year's summer holiday is going to be a little different to our usual fortnight in the sun.

- DUBLIN’S Guinness Storehouse is offering all front-line workers free admission and a free pint (or soft drink) in the Gravity Bar overlooking the city.

CHEF and restaurateur Ravinder Bhogal puts an immense amount of thought and care into how she feeds people.

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THIS week’s recipes are quick and easy skewer dishes for the grill and barbecue.

ONE of the biggest takeaways for many people during lockdown has been a reassessment of how they go about their daily lives.

Koru Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand, £6 (on offer at 2 for £10), Asda Koru is the Maori word for the circular frond of the native fern – a symbol of renewal and of the cycle of the seasons.

Pubs and nightclubs will be able to sell alcohol for an extra hour under proposals published by Stormont.

CHEF, author and Galway-based restaurateur JP McMahon recently researched and put together The Irish Cookbook, a compendium of Irish recipes, drawing on a colossal culinary history.

IF YOU could have been stuck in any household over the past few months, Edd Kimber's would've made a very lovely haven.

THE way a restaurant finds its way on to this page is such an unscientific process that I'm waiting for Donald Trump to take out a campaign ad on it every week.

DO YOU read food labels? What do you look for? Maybe you rely on the traffic light style labelling on the front of the pack, or perhaps you take a deeper delve and try to decipher the more detailed nutrition information panel on the back of the pack.

BANK holidays are made for barbeque food.

IT'S not quite Biggie and Tupac (ask an appropriately aged relative), but the IPA game in the States often comes to down to a rather less deadly version of rap's east-west rivalry.

Twenty-six pubs could face prosecution for breaching coronavirus health regulations or licensing laws, gardaí have said.

Half-price meals will be offered to diners eating out every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during August, the British Chancellor has announced, in a bid to boost the hospitality sector.