We are Michelle and Greg Bowe, a food obsessed, thirty something year old, married couple living in South Dublin. In September 2016 we became parents by welcoming Emma, our greedy little baby girl, into the world. Our second little trouble-maker, Amy, was born in October 2019.
Sadly, we don’t work in the food industry, instead software and pathology work consume too many hours of our week. We eat, we travel, we cook and then eat some more because this is what makes us happy. Our lives are based around meals and we think that is the way life should be lived. You have to eat three times a day so you may as well make the most of it, right?.
We used to write reviews here. Now we just use our site to promote great restaurants and Ireland's top food producers and shops. During the pandemic we kept a COVID-19 shopping and dinner box guide. You will also find a list of the best restaurants we have had the fortune to eat in around the world, kept more for our own memories than anything else.
Some more stuff about us, rattled off in a random order. Here goes….
We think a phone at the dining table can be a little bit rude, so you won’t see tweets or pics from the table from us. Our most read review was of Mugaritz in San Sebastian. Our most read Irish review was of Aniar in Galway. We love to cook at home and don’t mind driving around for hours on a Saturday morning to buy the best ingredients. We adore wine too and love to travel to different wine regions. We own a cheap sous-vide machine, which we love and use frequently. In 2015 we ate out around 150 times, but since having kids this number has been drastically reduced. One of us once blanked Rene Redzepi. We served sweetbreads at our wedding and guests ordered them thinking it was bread. We think there are too many food shows on TV and most of them are rubbish. For two years we wrote reviews and spelled palette as palate, oh no wait other way around. We are perplexed by anyone who takes reviews on TripAdvisor seriously. Meaningless terms like fusion and molecular gastronomy annoy us. We once ate over 45 courses, over 2 separate tasting menus, in one day – this was not a good idea. We got criticised for being anonymous and cowardly by someone with a fake name, using a fake email address and sent from a fake IP – smart! One of our most romantic meals was during a biblical storm in London and we were the only people in Koffmans. We try to make all our own bread. We got engaged in Paris and celebrated with a nice Bordeaux and a block of 48 month aged Comte.
That is about it really. Thanks for reading our site....
Michelle & Greg
Sadly, we don’t work in the food industry, instead software and pathology work consume too many hours of our week. We eat, we travel, we cook and then eat some more because this is what makes us happy. Our lives are based around meals and we think that is the way life should be lived. You have to eat three times a day so you may as well make the most of it, right?.
We used to write reviews here. Now we just use our site to promote great restaurants and Ireland's top food producers and shops. During the pandemic we kept a COVID-19 shopping and dinner box guide. You will also find a list of the best restaurants we have had the fortune to eat in around the world, kept more for our own memories than anything else.
Some more stuff about us, rattled off in a random order. Here goes….
We think a phone at the dining table can be a little bit rude, so you won’t see tweets or pics from the table from us. Our most read review was of Mugaritz in San Sebastian. Our most read Irish review was of Aniar in Galway. We love to cook at home and don’t mind driving around for hours on a Saturday morning to buy the best ingredients. We adore wine too and love to travel to different wine regions. We own a cheap sous-vide machine, which we love and use frequently. In 2015 we ate out around 150 times, but since having kids this number has been drastically reduced. One of us once blanked Rene Redzepi. We served sweetbreads at our wedding and guests ordered them thinking it was bread. We think there are too many food shows on TV and most of them are rubbish. For two years we wrote reviews and spelled palette as palate, oh no wait other way around. We are perplexed by anyone who takes reviews on TripAdvisor seriously. Meaningless terms like fusion and molecular gastronomy annoy us. We once ate over 45 courses, over 2 separate tasting menus, in one day – this was not a good idea. We got criticised for being anonymous and cowardly by someone with a fake name, using a fake email address and sent from a fake IP – smart! One of our most romantic meals was during a biblical storm in London and we were the only people in Koffmans. We try to make all our own bread. We got engaged in Paris and celebrated with a nice Bordeaux and a block of 48 month aged Comte.
That is about it really. Thanks for reading our site....
Michelle & Greg