{"id":283839,"date":"2026-02-06T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:45:09","slug":"could-an-irish-restaurant-finally-win-the-ultimate-prize-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283839\/","title":{"rendered":"Could an Irish restaurant finally win the ultimate prize? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">There\u2019s a rough rule of thumb when it comes to paying to dine at a Michelin-starred restaurant: stars cost around \u20ac100 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">That\u2019s according to Irish Times restaurant reviewer Corinna Hardgrave, who explains what it takes for a restaurant to win a Michelin star and what it means for them when they do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland has 18 one-star and five two-star restaurants \u2013 but no three stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">For the first time the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/2026\/02\/05\/how-do-michelin-inspectors-work-does-anybody-really-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelin Guide is holding its awards ceremony in Dublin<\/a>, on Monday, and Hardgrave gives her predictions on who might get a new star and who might be awarded an extra one. However she says nothing is predictable with the highly secretive Michelin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The Irish Times wants to hear listener feedback on our two news podcasts: In The News and Early Edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.net\/r\/ITNewsPodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This survey<\/a> is open to anyone who has listened to either In The News or Early Edition &#8211; whether you listen regularly, occasionally, or have listened in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a rough rule of thumb when it comes to paying to dine at a Michelin-starred restaurant: stars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,46885],"class_list":["post-283839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283839","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=283839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}