Saddle up
The Shelbourne’s Saddle Room is celebrating its Best Hotel Restaurant in Dublin gong in this year’s Restaurants Association of Ireland Awards by offering a three-course table d’hôte dinner, with a bottle of wine, for €90 for two people, until July 31.
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Guilty pleasures
Visitors to Punchestown Music Festival, from July 29 to July 30, will be able to indulge pasta cravings at the Barilla pop-up restaurant. Main courses include tiger prawns in arrabiata sauce and four-cheese tortellini with sage and nut butter. Three courses cost €25. punchestown.com
Scoff a croffle
A croissant-waffle hybrid has been created by pastry chef Louise Lennox, of TV3’s The Restaurant fame. Try the “Croffle” at Cuisine de France’s new pop-up café, La Petite Boulangerie, on Camden Street, until Saturday. facebook.com/cuisinedefranceireland