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With yet another award announced earlier this month, Ann Downey General manager and her team at the Connemara Coast Hotel have even more to celebrate right now. Following on their inclusion in the prestigious 2009 Bridgestone 100 Best places to stay in Ireland and their Failte Ireland ‘Best practice/Optimus award’ coupled with the Green Energy Award they received in January, CIE tours have just announced the hotel has won an Award of Excellence from them.

Kin Khao Thai, Athlone’s celebrated Thai restaurant has been shortlisted for the 2009 Food and Wine Magazine Restaurant of the Year Awards. Now in its ninth year, the event to be held at the Mansion House in Dublin on August 23, showcases the best in the Irish food and hospitality world.

The new Bridgestone Irish Food Guide, released every two and a half years, is just out and includes a glowing review of Knockranny House Hotel. Author John McKenna said that the book contains “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, and also advised that Mayo is the most improved county in the country. When the last issue of the food guide came out Mayo only had nine pages – this year there are 15.

The new Bridgestone Irish Food Guide, released every two and a half years, is just out and includes a glowing review of Knockranny House Hotel. Author John McKenna said that the book contains “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, and also advised that Mayo is the most improved county in the country. When the last issue of the food guide came out Mayo only had nine pages – this year there are 15.

Knockranny House Hotel will host a very special event for food and wine lovers with an evening of tutored tastings by a selection of international wine producers on Saturday January 30. The event will include walk-around tastings, masterclasses, blind tastings, and a winemakers’ dinner with a specially designed menu from Connaught’s best chef Seamus Commons as awarded by Food & Wine magazine.