Is fine dining dead? What we’ll be eating and where in 2024

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If you have been scrolling through restaurant accounts on Instagram, you would be forgiven for thinking that 2023 was the year of caviar and flimsy wisps of gold. One redolently delicious, the other quite tasteless. This may or may not be an analogy. Bord Bia’s annual Foodservice Market Insights report reveals that the Irish out-of-home sector (spending by diners within all food service channels) was up nearly 13 per cent this year to a new record high of €9.3 billion across the island. However, this may well be a reflection of escalating prices. It is against a backdrop of closures...