{"id":663145,"date":"2026-10-23T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663145\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:12:15","slug":"late-irish-times-restaurant-critic-corinna-hardgrave-wins-top-irish-food-writing-award-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663145\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Irish Times restaurant critic Corinna Hardgrave wins top Irish Food Writing award \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Times restaurant<\/a> critic Corinna Hardgrave<\/a>, who died earlier this month<\/a>, was awarded the top honour at this year\u2019s Irish Food Writing Awards, held in Dublin on Thursday evening. Paying tribute to Hardgrave, awards founder Suzanne Campbell said she was \u201ca rigorous restaurant critic and writer, whose knowledge of international food<\/a> and wine was as extensive as her passion for small producers and farmers\u201d. <\/p>\n

Noting that Hardgrave had won restaurant critic of the year at the awards three times in the past five years, Campbell said her reviews had been a highlight of Irish Times food coverage. Hardgrave was, she said, also \u201ckind, encouraging, enthusiastic and wonderful company\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Food Writing award, accepted by Hardgrave\u2019s husband Steve Hardgrave, was given for a Saturday Magazine cover story on Ireland\u2019s bakery boom<\/a>, which judge Hannah Twiggs, food and drink editor of The Independent (UK), said contained \u201cextensive\u201d reporting and \u201cexcellent\u201d detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe clearly knew the industry inside out,\u201d Twiggs said. She also praised Hardgrave\u2019s foodie guide to Co Clare<\/a> from late last year, saying it told a story about \u201cfarming, food and place\u201d, leaving the reader feeling as if they were exploring with her, \u201csmelling and tasting everything along the way\u201d.<\/p>\n

Irish Times features journalist Sylvia Thompson was also a winner at the event, taking an award for her writing on Irish food producers. She entered articles on women in farming<\/a> and food producers working to strengthen local food systems<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Drinks writer Shamim de Br\u00fan took the drinks writing award for an article on building an exclusively Irish drinks cabinet<\/a> published in The Irish Times and other work published in Image.<\/p>\n

Other Irish Times nominees included John Wilson for wine writing, Niamh Browne in the emerging writer category and \u00dana McCaffrey for editing food magazine pages. In the food writing category, Aideen O\u2019Flaherty was nominated, as was Ali Dunworth, whose work in Guzzle was also recognised. Dunworth was nominated in the critic category too.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Never flippant or headline-grabbing, our restaurant critic Corinna Hardgrave always kept the reader in mindOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Hardgrave was also nominated in the restaurant critic category, which was won this year by Conor Stevens for work in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n

The outstanding achievement award was taken by food writing veteran M\u00e1ir\u00edn U\u00ed Chom\u00e1in.<\/p>\n

Full list of winners<\/p>\n

Corinna Hardgrave, The Irish Times<\/p>\n

Writing on Irish food producers<\/p>\n

Sylvia Thompson, The Irish Times<\/p>\n

Shamim de Br\u00fan for work in The Irish Times and Image<\/p>\n

Conor Stevens for work in Sunday Times Ireland<\/p>\n

M\u00e1ir\u00edn U\u00ed Chom\u00e1in<\/p>\n

Irish food and drink podcast<\/p>\n

Janine Kennedy for Food Island, produced with UCD and Farmers Journal<\/p>\n

Writing on food heritage and history<\/p>\n

Kitty Corrigan for essays published in The Irish Kitchen<\/p>\n

Ciara Shine for Ciara\u2019s Catch<\/p>\n

Writing on sustainability in Irish food and drink<\/p>\n

Dee Sewell for Saved and Savoured; celebrating Carlow\u2019s food without the waste<\/p>\n

Irish food at drink magazine<\/p>\n

Guzzle Magazine; editor Jane Gleeson<\/p>\n

The Irish Kitchen by Cherie Denham, Kitty Corrigan and photography by Andrew Montgomery<\/p>\n

Paula McIntyre, Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

Aoife Carrigy, Irish Independent<\/p>\n

Gary Law, Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

Charlie Ward, TUS<\/p>\n

Food photography (amateur)<\/p>\n

Matej Bloksa<\/p>\n

Food photography (professional)<\/p>\n

Monika Coghlan<\/p>\n

Writing on international cuisines<\/p>\n

Roxana Manouchehri for This is not a Cookbook<\/p>\n

El Michelin; Erick Carillo<\/p>\n

Giselle Makinde for Samba<\/p>\n

Irish Food on Instagram\/TikTok<\/p>\n

Chris Mellon for Dublin Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Times restaurant critic Corinna Hardgrave, who died earlier this month, was awarded the top honour at this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,64500,61,60,709,5861],"class_list":["post-663145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-food-month","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magazine","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663145","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=663145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}