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Ballymaloe's charms
An international institution in the southern Irish countryside. In 2011 I travelled to Ballymaloe House, a 40-minute drive from Cork, Ireland, to stay the night and to interview the late...
Nick Lander
• 1 min read
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Jancis's diary – May 2026
Foreign parts feature heavily this month but that’s far from all. The villa pictured above overlooks Tangier. I hope you noticed that I hardly travelled at all at the beginning...
Jancis Robinson
• 10 min read
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A mix of liquid treasures in London, Dublin and Oxford. Above ths year’s Easter egg hunt. This month, and so...
Nick on restaurants
A stunning wine list in a Nepalese restaurant in the Irish capital. Above, Shiva Gautam, owner and wine enthusiast. When...
Wine news in 5
Plus good news for Canadian consumers, an update on Ireland's cancer warnings and an alternative to SO 2 in the...
Drinks not wine
From just two distilleries in the 1980s to nearly 40 today, Irish pot-still whiskey is back in a big and...
Wine news in 5
Plus Thailand's move towards loosening its extremely tight alcohol sales and advertising laws. Before we get to global news, I’ve...
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...
Don't quote me
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...
Free for all
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...
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