{"id":381653,"date":"2026-04-04T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:09:11","slug":"our-guide-to-great-food-and-great-service-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381653\/","title":{"rendered":"Our guide to great food and great service across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Best of lists don\u2019t happen overnight. They take months of planning, research, collaboration and, of course, eating out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Over the last 12 months, the food team at the Irish Examiner has been busily working on our inaugural 100 Best Places to Eat list. Created in the fashion of  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/arid-41746011.html\">Ireland\u2019s 100 Best Places to Stay<\/a>, which we launched in November, we have reviewed and eaten in every place that we recommend. With 100 entries, we\u2019ve only ranked our Top 20, just as we did with our hotels.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4998122_1_org_IE_logo_5th.png\" width=\"258\" height=\"32\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tContinue reading for \u20ac5<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Unlock unlimited access and exclusive benefits<\/p>\n<p>\t\t        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5th offer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4998125_1_org_5th_offer.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best of lists don\u2019t happen overnight. They take months of planning, research, collaboration and, of course, eating out.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5658,93,61,1693,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-381653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-irish-examiner-instagram","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-insight","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381653","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=381653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}