Dining Out

The 12 meals of Christmas: This Kilkenny restaurant is well on the way to earning a Michelin star

In this series, we are sharing some of our most loved and best-read restaurant reviews of 2023, and at Keith Boyle at The Bridge House, the wow factor is in evidence just a few short months after it opens

Keith Boyle at the pass in his eponymous restaurant at The Bridge House in Kilkenny. Picture: Dylan Vaughan

Generally, the term ‘en gelée’ makes me shudder. It refers to a preparation in which food is suspended in a jelly made from meat or fish stock. You might have heard of aspic jelly, especially if you were around in the 1980s, which is a clear, clarified version of gelée.

A quick Google search will show you that all manner of things can be suspended in aspic or gelée, including eggs, pork, salad and more, ...