On a starry night, our writer rubbed shoulders with the great and the good of the food world at the 2026 UK and Ireland Michelin Guide Awards in Dublin
Gordon Ramsay, left, with chef John Wyer and his wife Sandy who run Forest Avenue restaurant in Dublin 4, which received a star for the first time at the Michelin Guide awards. Photo: Gerry Mooney
It was when I was pulling up outside the Convention Centre Dublin on Monday evening that the sheer scale of the first Michelin Guide Awards ceremony being held in Ireland became clear.
The Samuel Beckett Bridge had a huge Michelin star logo projected onto it, and large colour projections lit up the outside of the Convention Centre itself. Inside, the tyre company’s logos featured everywhere – decals on window panes, branded merchandise and more – along with branding from La Rousse Foods, the Irish fine-foods specialist that supplies nearly every high-end eatery in the country.