Patrick Hanlon
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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The martini is The Moment: Five top spots doing this classic cocktail their own way (opens the original)
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THE MARTINI IS the Guinness of the cocktail world. Both drinks are gloriously simple yet agonisingly complex, rigidly rooted in the ritual. For Guinness, it’s the tilt, the settle, the anticipatory wait and the creamy thickness of the head. The quick scan, too, before ordering to see if it’s already flowing, or whether to hold fire. For the martini, it’s the depth of the chill, the elegance of the glassware, the level of dilution, and the tightrope between dry and wet; clean and classic and dirt
Are we all bluffing on the sweet wine knowledge? (opens the original)
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DON’T TELL ME you all have sophisticated palates enough to know and appreciate the differences between sweet wines. We’re all just bluffing when that menu lands, right? It sounds so elegant, chic and a bit smug, ending the meal by wetting the whistle on a dainty little tipple, served in a pixie-sized glass. Your dining companions are mad impressed and the next door table is giving you the wink, seduced by your choice of sophisticated sip. Peak restaurant peacocking. But who sat you down and held
Welfare check for the TK Maxx food aisle customer, please (opens the original)
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I’M VERY CONCERNED as to who in head office is responsible for curating TK Maxx’s food aisle. More pressing: who are the customers keeping it in business by buying those big bags of tricolour pasta in shapes you’ve never heard of? Are we actually eating this stuff? As is often the case, a random TikTok video, which my own chaotic algorithm served me, captured it best. A video of said food shelves with the on-screen caption “what I think the food aisle in TK Maxx sounds like” soundtracked by what
The Feeder's Digest: Belfast has more than music on the menu for the Fleadh Cheoil (opens the original)
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BELFAST HOSTING THE Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann this month feels not only fitting but a powerful, progressive moment. Only the second time the world’s biggest annual celebration of Irish music and culture has crossed the border since its inception in the 1950s, the city has embraced the opportunity with gusto, exactly as I knew it would, to celebrate what unites us rather than what divides us. I grew up in a border county in the 90s, halfway between Dublin and Belfast. Through the years, I’ve neve
The Feeder's Digest: The steaks are high as the humble côte de boeuf becomes a luxury (opens the original)
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WHEN YOU THINK of a côte de boeuf in Dublin, one place tends to come to mind. Etto. The city’s beloved, perfectly formed little bistro, which looks French but has a distinct Italian accent, opened by Simon Barrett and Liz Matthews on Merrion Row in 2013. Though the staff have changed regularly over the years, so too the menu with the seasons, Etto is impressively consistent. The most consistent thing being its enduring sharing steak, which has never left the menu – the success of which spurred m
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