Food Critics, Food Culture, Food Community

Archive - all the best places to eat, shop and stay in Ireland. A local guide to local places.

If you have visited our website recently you'll have noticed that we’ve been busy making changes. First up are our new online maps - the 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland, the 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland, and Where to Eat and Stay on the Wild Atlantic Way. Coming soon are online maps to Ireland's Ancient East, maps for Northern Ireland and a new Dublin food map. In addition we intend guides.ie to be the ultimate food guide where you will be able to search for cookery schools, craft breweries, the best butchers, the hottest distilleries, the defining Irish farmhouse cheeses, and much much more. We'll also have our Megabites blog, our videos and our podcasts. Exciting times for McKennas' Guides in this digital age. We feel that with so much happening on the web there has never been a more important time to guide people to the best places in Ireland, and to promote Irish food culture. We're proud to be an independent Irish publishing company, promoting the real Irish food community since way, way back in 1989.

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Inch Black Pudding

Patrick Street, Templemore, Co Tipperary