Comfort food is what one of the nation s leading gourmet chefs reckons we all need this Christmas - and plenty of it. We can focus on health in January, says Neven Maguire. But for now, let s just enjoy…
The proprietor of the award-winning MacNean House and Restaurant is partial to some less-than-gourmet fare himself - his guilty pleasure is a McDonald s meal on the journey from Dublin to Blacklion, Co Cavan, where he has created a business that was booming until the hammer blow from Covid-19 cost him €2m in turnover. I usually go through the drive-thru in a pair of sunglasses, he says.