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Last Wednesday saw teams of students from all over Ireland competing at the first National Third Level Student Innovation Awards for a €3,000 prize and the possibility of their product being distributed by a national food company.

or talented chef, Daniel Skukalek, originally from Longford who has battled to win a place in the national final of the Knorr Student Chef of the Year competition.

The Townhouse Restaurant is located over the Townhouse Bar facing the Spanish Arch. It has had a couple of identity changes in the last year or two, and that normally does not bode well. However in this case I think they have come up with a formula that works, funky styling, the menu, food quality, and the prices. The décor is pretty hard to describe, but a cross between random retro and New York funky might be a rough guide. Where there was once the usual suspended spotlights, there is now a collection of every type of retro shade you could imagine and a really clever line of about 20 to 30 Heinz beans tins transformed into downlighters. The tables are definitely sixties and the unusual chairs are eyecatching and pleasantly comfortable. The music is similarly retro and well chosen.

Only one week remains for the public to vote for their favourite in each of the six categories of this year’s Galway’s Best Awards. Voting will close next Tuesday, August 31 at midnight.

Four Mayo restaurants have just been nominated for food and wine awards in the annual Food & Wine Magazine Restaurant of the Year awards, sponsored this year by Penfolds Wines. The restaurants in the shortlist are Ashford Castle, Cong; the Ice House, Ballina; La Fougere, Knockranny House Hotel, Westport; and the Salt Restaurant, Lisloughrey Lodge, Cong.

It is that time of year again when the much anticipated Food & Wine Magazine Penfolds Restaurant of the Year Awards 2010 shortlist is selected from thousands of entries across the country.

The inaugural Galway’s Best Awards 2010 will be presented on Friday, September 17 in the newly refurbished Central Park nightclub.

With only the first month of voting over, more than 3,250 supporters have cast their vote online in an effort to determine who is Galway’s Best.

Galway eateries and artisan food producers received many nominations this year at the glittering black tie Restaurants Association of Ireland awards ceremony held in Dublin recently.

All 60 employees at Lisloughrey Lodge in Cong are to be kept on after management at the hotel this week succeeded in securing a new lease for the premises.