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Food and wine magazine awards 2009

Campagne won best leinster restaurant and garrett won the best leinster chef titles at the annual food and wine magazine awards

In addition to entering the ranks of best restaurants in Ireland, the Kilkenny eatery scored a culinary hat trick by also being listed in the elite Bridgestone guide book’s Top 10 Places with Great Service, whilst chef/proprietor Garrett Byrne was also placed in the guide’s Top 10 Hot Chefs to Watch.

The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland is a guide to “the most creative and cutting-edge restaurants throughout the country” and is a definitive list of those restaurants that offer the best cooking and the best service in Ireland. The guide is penned by Ireland’s most acclaimed food and travel writers, husband and wife team John and Sally McKenna.

Describing Campagne as “the most successful opening of the year”, John McKenna said of the restaurant: “Never mind the new Dublin places that opened in 2008: the big success story of the year has been Garrett Byrne returning to his native city to open Campagne. We all knew Mr. Byrne would cook wonderful food, which he was doing as head chef in Chapter One for several years, but what took everyone by surprise is how he managed to get everything – food, service, style, ambience, pricing, wine list – present and correct from the start.”

Chef proprietor Garrett Byrne commented: “The Bridgestone is a very prestigious guide, so we’re delighted to be ranked in this alongside other establishments of acclaim. It’s not just good for us but for tourism in the area”.

This nod by the Bridgestone Guide is the latest in a number of plaudits for Campagne since it opened last September. Irish Times restaurant critic Tom Doorley listed Campagne in his best restaurants of 2008, stating “Campagne is outstanding… giving good old Kilkenny a restaurant of the calibre that a fine city like this should”.

Food critic Paolo Tullio wrote in the Irish Independent that Campagne “has seriously raised the bar for dining in Kilkenny”.

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