Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s back to work we go..

Posted: 10 January '11 by Niall and Kelly

Isn’t the first day back to work after the Christmas break just awful? Kelly and I definitely needed that extra week off too – all of that rich party food left us in need of a little de-tox, but we’ve put the salads and mineral water away and we’re ready to start talking about real..

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Merry Christmas!

Posted: 25 December '10 by Niall and Kelly

Thanks to everyone for following our blog and taking an interest in Chilli & Chocolate through 2010. Kelly and I are really enjoying the whole thing: cooking all of these recipes, meeting producers and suppliers, running a few competitions, and visiting local restaurants. We’re really looking forward to 2011 too. We’ve loads planned – hopefully..

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Nominated for the Irish Blog Awards 2010

Posted: 20 February '10 by Niall

We’ve been nominated for the Irish Blog Awards 2010! Thanks to all of you who’ve read our recipes, reviews, and rants over the past year – and thought we deserved an award for it. The award ceremony will be held on Saturday 27th March, 2010 in Galway. We’re in the “Best Food/Drink Blog” category, which..

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Now accepting payments by PayPal

Posted: 20 February '10 by Niall

We’re now able to take online payments for our wine-tasting evening at Direct Wine Shipments! The “Buy Now” button will take you to the PayPal website to allow you to buy your tickets. The payment is totally secure – just have a look at the bottom right hand corner of your window, or at the..

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Wine-tasting evening at Direct Wine Shipments

Posted: 10 February '10 by Kelly

In our last post we mentioned the exciting work that we’re doing with Direct Wine Shipments and that there was another announcement to come.. Chilli and Chocolate are holding a wine-tasting evening at Direct Wine Shipments on Friday the 12th of March 2010!! Not only will you get to taste an array of selected wines..

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It’s that time of the year again..

Posted: 15 January '10 by Niall

The Michelin Guide to Great Britain and Ireland 2010 was released today. What’s it all about? The Michelin Guide is a series of guide books published by Michelin for over a dozen countries and is the oldest and best-known European hotel and restaurant guide. The venerated Red Book is researched and published on a yearly..

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Happy New Year!

Posted: 07 January '10 by Kelly

OK so we are seven days late… But we are still getting over the festivities of the Christmas season.  We hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and New year and are looking forward to the year ahead. If you’re anything like us and don’t ever want to see another piece of chocolate, a..

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Merry Christmas

Posted: 24 December '09 by Niall

Merry Christmas from Chilli and Chocolate! We’ve had a great year, have done some really interesting and enjoyable things, and have much more planned for 2010 – we hope you’ll be there to see it all. Kelly and I would just like to thank everyone who has been involved: all the members, our readers (and..

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