The Mustard Seed, Limerick: what organised chaos on a plate tastes like
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We covered Limerick this time last year at the Palladian pile that is Plassey House, where a fine-dining restaurant called the East Room comes housed in an Italianate mansion on the University of Limerick campus, led by Derek Fitzpatrick. Exactly 365 days later we find ourselves back in Limerick in another of the county's institutions: Echo Lodge in Ballingarry.
When you tell people you're going 'down to Adare to cover a hotel restaurant' they immediately assume Adare Manor, and funnily enough we find ourselves in the area a few days after the 'Ally & Sean wedding' went viral on TikTok. For those who weren't glued to the antics, an American couple privately hired the manor (and, by all accounts, the entire town of Adare) with the most lavish, 'money is no object' wedding imaginable.
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