Katy McGuinness
Food, Travel and Property Writer at Irish Independent
Restaurant critic, Irish Independent, freelance food, features and travel writer; copywriter (hospitality, luxury, medical) [email protected] she/her
Articles
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Katy McGuinness
Our critic is looking forward to returning to this Turkish delight just off Dublin’s Henry StreetIfirst ate Turkish food when I lived close to Green Lanes in North London. Stoke Newington was not as trendy then as it is now — we aspired to an address in neighbouring Islington, seen as more desirable — but we were spoiled for choice when it came to Turkish restaurants. Our favourite was the Hodja Nasreddin, which I’ve since learned was the first proper Turkish restaurant in London.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Katy McGuinness
Our critic says more rigour is needed in the kitchen for the food on the plate to live up to the menuI have nothing but respect for the guy sitting up at the counter of The Seafood Cafe in Temple Bar on a recent Sunday evening, steadily making his way through three, possibly even four, beguiling, ice-cold martinis — and just a few morsels of food — before alighting from his seat and heading off into the night. What’s that James Thurber quote about martinis?
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3 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Katy McGuinness
It has a gritty reputation, but it’s a super French city for food, art and architecture too, says our restaurant critic Three French friends separately raised their eyebrows when I mentioned I was going to Marseille for the weekend.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Katy McGuinness
Our critic is seriously impressed by the slices and small plates at Dublin’s newest pizzeriaOver the past couple of years, Dublin has taken the slice shop to its heart. There are still people queuing down the street for the OG Bambino on Stephen Street, while the Merrion Street branch often tapes a ‘Sold Out’ sign to its door. On Drury Street, Mani is a place of pilgrimage for its Roman-style slices, particularly the carbonara.
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4 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Katy McGuinness
As they mark 25 years in business together, sisters Peaches and Domini Kemp talk about the shock of moving to Ireland from the Bahamas after the death of their father, navigating their divorces, Domini’s cancer diagnoses and why she still stands by the claims made in her 2016 ketogenic cookbook‘I think when you were born somewhere, it is in your blood,” says Domini Kemp. She’s talking about a holiday to the “spectacular and beautiful” Bahamas she and her sister Peaches took last year.
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