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Jancis's diary – May 2026
Foreign parts feature heavily this month, including the villa above overlooking Tangier. But that’s far from all. I hope you noticed that I hardly travelled at all at the beginning...
Jancis Robinson
• 10 min read
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Jancis's diary – April 2026
A mix of liquid treasures in London, Dublin and Oxford. Above ths year’s Easter egg hunt. This month, and so late last month that they weren’t included in my March...
Jancis Robinson
• 1 min read
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Nick on restaurants
A fond look back over the year. Above, one of Nick's favourite scenes from a year visiting restaurants around the...
Nick on restaurants
A most unusual corner of literary Ireland in King's Cross. There are two ways to enjoy the cooking, hospitality and...
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Warning: this will be one of my shortest diaries ever as nothing much happens in August, I’m delighted to say...
Nick on restaurants
Two reasons why Kinsale in southern Ireland is a popular foodie destination. Above, Kinsale harbour, pictured by Eduardo Fonseca Arraes...
Nick on restaurants
A superb, thoroughly unexpected, restaurant in West Cork. Above, the view from the garden at Dede at the Customs House...
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Last week Ireland lost a consummate hospitality professional, Hazel Allen of Ballymaloe House Hotel near Cork. An email last Friday...
Nick on restaurants
What six respected chefs learned from their mothers, each pictured below. Above, a young Isaac McHale of The Clove Club...
Nick on restaurants
Some unlikely heroes have emerged in the pandemic. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Daniel...
Nick on restaurants
Nick asks four sommeliers to describe their pandemic-affected 2020 and to recommend two wine discoveries of the year. Clockwise above...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
It was 3.30 in the afternoon and I was...
Nick on restaurants
Sunday evenings present restaurateurs and hoteliers with a particular challenge that most of the former decline even to rise to...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The city of Galway on the west coast of...
Nick on restaurants
Myrtle Allen, who died yesterday at the age of 94 in the Cork University Hospital surrounded by her family, was...
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