Yearly Archives: 2013

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(Chef Oliver Dunne, top, Michelin-starred co-proprietor of Bon Appetit in Malahide, Co Dublin, and now Cleaver East in The Clarence Hotel, and Lucinda O’Sullivan, above, food critic of the Sunday Independent and, bottom, the review of Cleaver East in yesterday’s Life magazine)

In an open letter on his blog Mr Dunne writes:

On reflection of your [Lucinda O’Sullivan’s] review [Not available online] which wasn’t that bad (because everything you got was perfect as you were spotted the second you walked in) I wondered why you would write such a nothing review on one of the best restaurants that’s opened in Ireland for years.

…Cleaver East has already after just four weeks got the nation talking positively about it and is being applauded by nearly every single person who has crossed its doors since the opening night critics, celebrities and most importantly the public. Here are four reasons I have come up with why you would do such a thing;

1. You took offence to the fact that I mentioned you on Newstalk when I pulled out of the annual restaurant awards for best chef a few years back as a result of you being the food critic and you had not been in my restaurant for 3 years.

2. You sell plaques to restaurants to promote your own personal guide book whom you profit off and I have voiced my opinion that they are a worthless waste of money….

 

Oliver Dunne

Yikes.

Bill please, waiter.

More here: Declined (Oliver Dunne, Cleaver East)

Previously: Tyred

Meanwhile…

Chefs and limelight are a recipe for trouble (Lucinda O’Sullivan, Sunday Independent)

Pic: Bonappetit/Independent.ie

Thanks Alan Daly

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5PwQJJuJA

While Ireland slept…

Burklert writes:

[Irish Navy vessel] LE Aoife on Saturday evening in Cobh, Co Cork. Video was taken by somebody other than I. We passed there by boat not long after they had the situation under control. We were wondering why there was so much activity going on, this video fills in the gaps…

Stay for the commentary.

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Rosanna Davison and juggling clown Garry Rossiter today.

Anyone?

Lines close at 6pm

UPDATE: Yes it’s the launch of the Irish Heart Foundation’s ‘Fats of Life’ campaign supported by the HSE to “encourage more adults to replace bad fats in their diet with healthier ones so they can reduce their cholesterol.” Obviously.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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“When finished, the bridge will carry a single southbound tram track in the centre and two southbound bus and cycle lanes either side, one lane going straight on to Marlborough Street, the other turning right and heading towards O’Connell Bridge.”

The Irish Times’ southbound only Liffey bridge.

What, no passport controls?

Also: FIGHT!

New but nameless, we can cross that Liffey bridge when we come to it (in February) (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks Ruadhán

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Ella Zulia.

Landed in Dublin on this day, 1904.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

 The wire-walker Ella Zuila the most famous Australian public entertainer of her time, though now almost forgotten:

Ella didn’t just walk the wire; she cycled it; wheeled a child over it in a barrow; walked it in stilts and with a full-body blindfold, and, on one memorable occasion, hung from it by her knees to catch her fired-out-of-a-cannon husband.

Sadly, Ella’s career came to a tragic end in Dublin, on this date in 1904, when she and her tricycle fell off the high wire in the Round Room of the Rotunda. There was no safety net, and she was too badly injured ever to perform again. She died in 1926. A little plaque to her in the Rotunda wouldn’t go astray, surely?

 

Ella Zuila (SimplyAustralia)

Pic via US Library of Congress