LUCINDA’S NOTICEBOARD

“Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

Fallon & Byrne opens seven days a week in Exchequer Street, Dublin 2, where there is a kerbside collection service, and at the People’s Park in

Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, for coffee and a pop-up grocery store. Groceries delivered nationwide. fallonandbyrne.com

Hoban Brasserie at the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel has rib of Mount Leinster beef (€14.95) on its Sunday lunch to go. Chef Tom Comerford is providing a great service here for denizens of the Marble City, with other brasserie dishes to go seven days a week from 3pm-8.30pm MonFri, and from 1pm Sat-Sun. Call and collect.

Telephone: 056-775-0200

Lignum, Danny Africano’s stunning restaurant at Bullaun, near Loughrea, Co Galway, has restarted its food to go with ‘Lignum a Casa’, with each menu serving two people at €40. lignum.ie

Following the success of their Soup Ramen bar in Dún Laoghaire, Conor

Hughes and Will Shannon have notched up Soup 2, a second outlet in Smithfield, Dublin. Slurping your ramen is, of course, de rigueur. soupramen.ie

With an enviable array of Michelin-star experience under his belt as head chef for three years at two-star Oaxen Krog in Stockholm, and two years at Rene Redzepi’s Noma in Copenhagen,

Dublin chef Adam Kavanagh returned as head chef for a short period to the Cliff House in Ardmore, Co Waterford, last year. He has now taken over the restaurant at the legendary Bunnyconnellan’s at Myrtleville, Co Cork, and will also be overseeing things there. That’s one to watch. bunnyconnellan.ie