MANATSU | GRUEL GUERILLA | TBG+S | 真夏

So, we are running our first big collaboration of the summer! Our Gruel Guerilla arm has teamed up with the super talented Junko Hamililton of Ichiju Sansai, Dee and Sinead of Hunt & Gather and Orlaith of Making Space bring you a very special pop up restaurant in the atrium of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. On July 5th and 6th, we'll open our doors to 100 diners who will be presented with a 13 course contemporary Japanese meal created using Irish ingredients. From wonderful Goatbridge trout cured in a classic Kyoto style recipe, to slow cooked pork belly from Ed Hick. The night is poised to make you embrace summer in all it's glory.

There will be different drink pairings with most courses and some amazing teas to taste too. Along with out evening festivities we also be running a pop up brunch in the afternoon of both days. Tickets are €70 for the meal and included performances, food and drink for the evening.

We look forward to welcoming you!

To get tickets go here: CLICK

SUPPER | WEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY 12

Ok, first of all. Ducks! Amazing work by Robin as always! We're staying on our theme of mixing Japanese with some of our more regular western end of things! We've been playing with noodles over the previous few weeks with a plan of releasing something very cool through the Gruel Guerilla, so keep your eyes peeled! It's the usual deal..

....pop me a mail if you want to come along! Look forward to seeing you here!

SUPPER | WEDNESDAY | JANUARY 22

We are at it again, our second supper of the year. This week it's a collaboration between myself and Robin! I'm really looking forward to it, we'll hopefully have our own batch of nukazuke up and running and be able to make a very interesting pickle salad. We'll once again be making Robin's amazing homemade soba noodles, this time adding beet puree into the mix! We are lending the idea of matcha salt from our good friend Junko Hamilton who also hosts some amazing suppers in her home. She also teaches Japanese Cookery!

We'll be picking up some amazing veg from Jenny McNally which will leave to some great pickles and some exciting Irish Kimchi! We are toying with the idea of lowering the number of people we have to our events, so there's a possibility there might only be 8 spots available on Wednesdays. We are liking the more relaxed, chatty meals! But we shall see!

For the moment if you are interested in coming along put us an email to: supper@newsofthecurd.com

See ya here!

3Square at Roasted Brown

Well some of you may know and as I found out tonight mny of you don't know. But last Monday Robin and I began our new idea of 3Square in Roasted Brown in Dublin's beautiful Filmbase. The idea is to split a café in two, one team dedicated to making the best food from local and seasonal food while the other team focus entirely on coffee. Shots weighed, timed and carefully looked after. All the while trying to presuade the customer to try a filter. Now that they have the four and a half minutes to spare hopefully the customer will too. As with all our food we've gone to the amazing traders of Temple Bar Food Market. Each Saturday we stock the fridges of Roasted Brown with the best bits we can find in the market. Each day we come up with the next day's menu. For the first month it's going to go a little something like this:

Each day will be new, new recipes, new dishes, new sandwiches, new salads, the works. It will continue like this for the first 30 days. As of tomorrow morning we are on to day 10. So 20 more days to go, there's time to get in and try out our ideas. After the 30, we'll have a definative list of everything we can serve up.

So that's it, it's plain and simple, the food is tasty, fresh and super seasonal.

ONE LAST HURDLE!

People seem to not know where we are. This is somewhat of an issue for a café. So here it is. We are one Curved St. In Temple Bar. You get to the Button Factory. Across from the Button Factory there is a building called Filmbase. You enter Filmbase. You go up a flight of stairs. You arrive at one of the most beautiful spaces to drink coffee in Dublin. You order coffee. You order food. We have the chats. You sit. We feed and water you. It all works well. Come up and tell me what you think.

Here's a link to help too. CLICKY

Ok. That's it. We hope to see you soon!

Japanese Supper Wednesday June 26th {a menu}

Due to popular demand and curiosity, allow me give you a little preview of some of the amazing food Robin will be serving tomorrow! From the top down we have Sardines from Ireland served with a dipping sauce made with David Llwellyn's sweet cherries, Elderflowers from Nun's Island in Galway, given to use by Jess from Kai Restaurant, Pak Choi from McNally Family Farm, Miso soup with mushrooms from Irish Shiitake, Rice with broadbeans from Healy's Organics Delights (grown on the farm in Ireland) Fennel from McNallys with Irish wakame with a elderflower vinegar dressing, kimpira carrots also from Dennis Healy's farm and Buttermilk from McNallys and Cherries from David to finish it off!

It's true Irish treat with the special twist that Robin brings to News of the Curd! Because of some cancellations we di have a few spots left and would love for as many people as possible to enjoy this! We hope to see you here!

Una Cena Secreta! Viernes! Mexican Supper Round 3! Friday 22nd!

Round 3, this time I take on the bovinae family! It's time. We are going to try out wet burritos there's a smoking sauce I've been working on and with the mustardy goodness of the McNally's Watercress it's set to be a tasty meal! We had 14 spots for this but the word got out that it was another mexican supper and a few chairs were nicked in advance. It's much more of a beer that wine affair but...

you're welcome to drink what you please. May I also talk about my new favourite poster, oh Robin the things you do! I think once I look anyway similar to a Lucidor I'm happy.

Pancake Tuesday Brunch 12th February!

Pancake Tuesday shall have a brunch! I shall supply it! From 12-3 well be dishing up tasty food here at the apartment. Pop me a mail if you are interested in coming. I'll stick a suggested donation up for each of the items tomorrow! But consider it cheap and cheerful! Everyone should enjoy brunch! EVERYONE! Oh also we'll only have a limited amount of everything so just be prepared!

Super Secret Supper during TB Culture Night

So we are letting Sergui have his café back for Culture Night! We are going to hold the dinner at a different location! I'm really excited about this menu...

We have gotten our venison from Ed HIck and all our seasonal veg is coming from the McNally's farm. It's going to be an amazing evening. Very tasty and then you can go out and explore all the Temple Bar has to offer you! I might even pop out instead of washing up.

Saturday 11th August, The day we ate everything from Temple Bar Food Market!

Myself & D decided to have a day of eating supplied from Temple Bar, breakfast..twice..lunch..in a cinema..and dinner..with salads.

So breakfast begun with, slices of the most wonderful bread I have ever tasted. The rustic loaf from Le levain Bakery. Topped with sliced seasonal very wonderful and delicious cherry tomatoes from the McNallys and slices of Jamon iberico bellota from The Real Olive Co. finished with a supper fresh poached eggs. There was black pepper from Len's Grains and balsamic vinegar from David Llywelyn. Oh also fried pears from Healy's Organic Vegetables! It was amazing.

Then we moved onto more bread! Toasted. We spread McNally's better and Orange Marmalade over it. Warm, melting and wonderful.

Next it was off to the cinema to see 'El Bulli - Cooking in Progress', I decided that I needed popcorn for the movie and D decided we needed actual food. We decided to go with both. We had a baguette from levain so we came up with a filling of roast tomatoes, D's white bean humus, sliced artichokes and mizuna leaves. I wanted to make 'Thai basil pesto popcorn' With an hour before the movie began we go working on with cinematic treat. With 20min to spare we headed for the lighthouse cinema. Walked into the screen at 15:29 and sat to watch this amazing movies....so amazing. How they look at food, how they treat each individual ingredient, some dishes just consisting of a single ingredient treated in a new and interesting way. I came out feeling very inspired.

The awesome sandwich:

     

The pesto Popcorn:

An artist's rendition of how our popcorn and sandwich looked.*

*The artist happens to be D. It's all very handy. She has also designed my new business cards! Click the popcorn if you'd like to see her other work!

I love Temple Bar Food Market, it's close to my home. Some of my favourite people in the world are there let along some of the more delicious food you can get your hands on. I feel honoured to be part of the community.