{"id":108057,"date":"2025-10-28T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:25:09","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-pay-attention-michelin-this-kilkenny-restaurant-has-been-delivering-two-or-even-three-star-worthy-food-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108057\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review: Pay attention Michelin, this Kilkenny restaurant has been delivering two or even three-star worthy food for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith Michelin-award season approaching, this splendiferous Kilkenny spot is deserving of two stars\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"L-R Mackerel cone, horseradish and lemon, cauliflower, vadouvan spice, apple and lime. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MGjuliet.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">L-R Mackerel cone, horseradish and lemon, cauliflower, vadouvan spice, apple and lime. Photo: Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With the inception of Michelin\u2019s latest class of award last year \u2013 \u2018Keys\u2019 for hotels \u2013 now, every autumn, it won\u2019t be just chefs on their knees praying they\u2019ll be blessed with a star from the Oh Holy Rubber Tyre Man, we\u2019ll also have suave top-notch hoteliers shaking in their boots as to whether it\u2019ll take 1, 2 or 3 Michelin Keys to appease their wealthy owners. However, despite an initial 14 Irish awardees at the end of 2024 \u2013 all pretty obvious high-end hotels \u2013 there were some appalling omissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the second \u2018Key\u2019 ceremony in Paris recently, 16 Irish hotels featured. Two retained their 3-Key status \u2013 Adare Manor and Ballyfin Demesne \u2013 while five received 2 Keys, including Ashford Castle, which was one of the aforementioned omitted. Cashel Palace, the Park Hotel Kenmare, Sheen Falls Lodge, and The Merrion in Dublin were the other 2-Key recipients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Michelin-award season approaching, this splendiferous Kilkenny spot is deserving of two stars L-R Mackerel cone, horseradish and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-108057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-lucinda-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}