AS A chef and owner of a group of restaurants, I am always aware of ensuring our menus cover as broad a variety of tastes and preferences as possible so as all our patrons find something they will enjoy and remember.

I ONCE read that the least revealing thing you can say about a beer is that it is 'malty' or 'hoppy'.

- SKY customers can rent selected new-release movies from a special offer price of £2.

The Point Bar 107 Point Road Magilligan Co Derry THE week before, I’d been in Inishowen and had looked down from a hill there across Lough Foyle, sparkling like the Mediterranean, to Magilligan Point.

If there were awards for label design, Yellow Belly would… well there actually is and the Wexford brewers’ unique comic book style and on-the-button puns have seen them carry off a few goings on that front.

JAMES Street South chef Niall McKenna is running the chef apprentice programme in his restaurant group for a fourth year.

- EUROSPAR stores have the following items for half price until May 21: Cookstown smoked or unsmoked thick-cut back bacon 250g (now £1.

APPARENTLY, Nathan Outlaw still can't quite master the art of roasting a chicken.

THE Hudson Bar in Belfast is a great wee spot.

BY and large, I'm not a fan of brewers naming beers after the hops they use.

'TIS THE season when "what should we bring?" rings out across the land as we crawl out of hibernation and the number of BBQs, garden parties, dinners and family gatherings ramp up in the warm weather.

DOG lovers are being urged to bring along their furry best friends to a series of special events in Belfast city centre to raise much-needed funds for a charity which works to help stray dogs in Northern Ireland.

IRELAND'S only Michelin-starred female chef has won one of the most prestigious awards in the Irish restaurant business.

- CLOTHING retailer Fat Face has an up-to-50-per-cent-off sale in store and at www.

HOW does the song go again? I’ve been to Paradise, but I’ve never been to Muff? Pretty sure that’s it.

WHAT a week it has been weather-wise! While the doom and gloomers are bemoaning “this is all the summer we will get”, my belief is that you should always make hay when the sun shines.

THOSE guys who opened that pop-up crisp sandwich café last year were certainly on o something.

I'm not sure what's going on.

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IF YOU want to make something cool – or at least give it the appearance of cool – with the minimum of effort, slapping ‘Brooklyn’ on it has become a favoured way to go.