{"id":293701,"date":"2026-02-12T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293701\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:20:22","slug":"gordon-ramsay-its-about-time-we-shone-a-spotlight-on-ireland-because-its-the-sleeping-beauty-of-european-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293701\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay: \u2018It\u2019s about time we shone a spotlight on Ireland because it\u2019s the sleeping beauty of European cuisine\u2019"},"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\">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\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/41e11e18-1386-4fe0-b7e0-0759dbca3405.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)\">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<\/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)\">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.<\/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)\">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\u2019s logos featured everywhere \u2013 decals on window panes, branded merchandise and more \u2013 along with branding from La Rousse Foods, the Irish fine-foods specialist that supplies nearly every high-end eatery in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a starry night, our writer rubbed shoulders with the great and the good of the food world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33045,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-293701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alex-meehan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293701","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=293701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}