The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Europe

What's the background? Alumni Kitchen Table opened in July 2022, a tiny eight-seater restaurant with rooms in the Kildare countryside. It's owned and run by husband and wife Philip and Kathy Mahon, him the chef, her the sommelier and front of house, and is designed to be a luxury dining experience, with the option of staying overnight. It's obvious the end goal here is a Michelin star (with star-level prices already in place), and the chef admitted as much here. A new, exclus

If you're one of those people who equates sherry to little old ladies sipping from miniature glasses on Christmas day, you need to...

Was Glasgow on our must visit list before Michelin decided to hold the 2025 award ceremony there? No it was not, but we knew they must...

If there’s anything on earth more likely to inspire a weekend getaway than an Irish winter we can't name it - the endless energy-sapping...

We love a mini-break, a cheeky over-nighter, an escape from life for the weekend, but why does hotel food have to be notoriously pants!...

How much did I love Bologna? So much that as soon as I got home from 48 hours in the Northern Italian city, I immediately booked flights...

If you're into eating out in Ireland and you're not hitting up Cork city on the regular, what are you at? Cork may claim to be the real...

We could tell you all about the history of Spanish capital Madrid, about the Christian city walls, the Prado museum, the city centre El...

The Andalusian city of Ronda, an hour and 20 minute drive from Malaga airport, has one of the most spectacular locations in Spain,...

The summer that never was is slipping on by, and your opportunities for daytrips over those lazy, longer days are running out. Daytrips...

Why would I fly in and out of London in one day? Okay hear us out. It's the most exciting city for food in Europe (will fight anyone on...

At just under an hour away by plane, with frequent cheap flight on Aer Lingus and Ryanair, Bohemian Bristol is ideal for a food-hopping...

When we think of holidays in France we usually think of a food and wine filled weekend in Paris, lounging around by the sea in Nice or...

The one-time epicentre of the culinary world, Copenhagen’s fostering of the New Nordic Cuisine in the early 2000s earned the city pride...

A disclaimer: First things first, spending this much money on dinner is (for most of us) a very expensive hobby. We forego new clothes,...

A cosmopolitan hub, home to the largest port in Germany, and with the second largest population after Berlin, Hamburg is sprawling,...

Breakfast Caravan, Bankside & Other Locations Caravan, with six sites now across London, never seems to falter when it comes to breakfast...

The Costa del Sol is not generally thought of as one of Spain's food destinations - it certainly doesn't get gourmet travellers hyped up...

We could all do with an injection of française now and then. The pastries, the wine, the general air of sophistication and arrogance -...

Summer is finally upon us and 2022 marks the first time in far, far too long that most of us will be able to get out of Ireland and enjoy...

We're always looking for new parts of Ireland to discover, with food and drink top of our agenda, and somewhere that's been slowly...

Ummm Galway. Slow down being so great for food and drink. There we were thinking we could fit all the best spots into a weekend but how...

It's official, Cork is on fire. On a recent trip there we didn't have enough hours or calories in the day to eat everywhere we wanted to,...

With the recent stories of five-hour waits to get through to the COVID travel cert helpline, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the...

Yes it's a long drive. Yes you could go somewhere closer and not spend half a day in the car. Yes it's ANOTHER hour and half from Cork...

Ireland is having a Lion King moment. You know when Simba’s dad sits him down on Pride Rock and explains that “everything the light...

In March of this year, after being told so much about how hopping Belfast's food scene was, we jumped in the car, high-tailed it up the...