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Head chef quits Michelin two-star restaurant in Dublin Mickael Viljanen leaves the Greenhouse after winning it a second star in 2020 about 5 hours ago   Mickael Viljanen, head chef at the Greenhouse in Dublin, one of only three restaurants in Ireland to hold two Michelin stars, has resigned. It is not yet known what his next move will be, but it is expected he will remain in Ireland. The restaurant, on Dawson Street, close to St Stephen’s Green, is owned by Eamonn O’Reilly, who also owns One Pico, nearby on Molesworth Place. Both businesses have had to close during successive pandemic l...

From family resorts to boutique charmers: the highest-rated hotel stays in Ireland, according to TripAdvisor.

Ruairi and Marie-Thérèse de Blacam, Inis Meáin Restaurant & Suites. Dreaming of the day when your food is cooked by a chef, your wine is poured by a waiter and you don’t have to do the wash up? In the toughest year the hospitality sector has ever experienced, the Michelin Awards were a much-needed glimmer of light on a cold January evening. Green Star A new addition to the awards this year was the Green Star award, celebrating restaurants who embrace sustainable practises, and all three winners in Ireland are based in Galway; Kai Restaurant and Loam in the city and Inis Meáin Restaurant...

I’m not sure it’s a good thing to be told by a restaurant that yours is one of the biggest orders they’ve ever had — but that’s what happens when we go to pick up our Saturday night dinner from Dash Burger. In fairness, there are five of us eating and I’m under a professional obligation to try as many items on the menu as possible — but still… we aren’t holding back. If you think that a burger is a burger is a burger, and there’s not much difference between them, think again. (Certainly the lads who attempted the trip from Meath to collect their order from — allegedly �...

A decade ago, Ahmet Dede (35) had just moved to Ireland with no idea as to which career path to follow and had never heard of the famous Michelin Guide. But last Monday night he was the only chef in Ireland to gain a shiny new Michelin star — for his restaurant Dede in Baltimore, which opened last summer. “It is a proud day for my family,” he says. This is not Ahmet’s first Michelin star — he won one at Mews, also in Baltimore but now closed, back in 2018. The food at Mews had shades of Nordic but, at Dede, Ahmet is delving deep into his Turkish heritage.