About Us

Georgina Campbell's www.ireland-guide.com

ireland-guide.com resulted from the growing need for our internationally respected and acclaimed hospitality guide and cookbook company to develop a strong on-line presence from which to reach our rapidly growing market - whether it is the international tourist researching their holiday/vacation or the office bound professional seeking a spot of lunch - we cater for every discerning traveller and diners wide range of needs. Such is the early success of our fledgling website that we now get in the region of 330,000 unique visitors each month from Ireland, the US, the UK and many more countries.

The website itself is the pool of quality establishments from which we select the entrants for our various, more highly selective guides. For example, on the website you will find more information about the many standard 3 and 4 star hotels that exist in Ireland than in our guides - where due to space limitations they are only listed in a Roundup or list section at the end of each chapter - these are signified by the letter R on the site. These hotels serve a purpose and cater very well to the business traveller and city weekenders needs, but may not be as interesting to the discerning independent traveller as a family run georgian townhouse that is full of character.

This website is an extremely good place to initially research a holiday or an outing, but we would recommend looking into purchasing one of our growing range of guides to Irish hospitality for the glove box when travelling. This will ensure that you will find only the best places to eat, drink and stay wherever your travels take you in Ireland.

Please find out more about our comany and Georgina Campbell below and Bon Voyage!

Background to "Georgina Campbell's Ireland - The Guide

"Georgina Campbell, the well-known food & travel writer, operates a small publishing company specialising in Irish food and hospitality. It was established in 1997 and the Irish company’s flagship product is Georgina Campbell’s Ireland – the Guide (The Best Places to Eat, Drink & Stay).

Each year she and her husband, the sailing journalist and author W.M. Nixon – who writes the County Introductions for the Guide, and supplies many of the photographs – travel incognito to every county in Ireland to research the next year’s guides.

As there are only so many nights in which to try out the beds and service, and only so many meals one can eat when dining for Ireland’, a team of fellow food writers and other qualified hospitality professionals follow up with more anonymous visits, ultimately providing a comprehensive critical coverage for the entire country.

Now in its ninth year, the Guide has earned recognition as the definitive guide to Irish hospitality.

All Georgina Campbell Guides are based on the respected principle of independent assessment and publication of a guide selected entirely on merit. Entries are free of charge to recommended establishments, selected after anonymous visits by a team of experienced assessors; establishments cannot pay into any Georgina Campbell Guides, or advertise in them.

About Georgina Campbell

Georgina Campbell is one of Ireland's leading food and hospitality writers. Her widely-read column in the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine has earned her many fans for its practical and down-to-earth approach - and, for the last nine years, the same honesty has applied to her comprehensive and critically acclaimed independently assessed guides to Ireland's best places to eat, drink and stay, 'Georgina Campbell's Ireland - the guide' and its growing number of companion volumes, including a unique guide to the best places to eat and drink along the inland waterways of Ireland, which is now published in association with Waterways Ireland.

Georgina’s other writing includes regular contributions to Food & Wine magazine and, in addition to the guides, she has written a number of books on Irish food including "Good Food From Ireland" (now out of print), "Meals For All Seasons - The Best of Contemporary Irish Cooking" (limited availability), "The Best of Irish Breads & Baking" (recently reprinted), and “Irish Country House Cooking” (new edition just published). Georgina also publishes books for other authors under her Epicure Press title. The most recent of these was written by internationally acclaimed celebrity chef Kevin Dundon. This beautiful hardback book is called "Full on Irish - Contemporary Irish Cooking."

Educated at Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, Georgina is a founding member and former Chairman of the Irish Food Writers Guild, a member of Britain’s Guild of Food Writers and also a member of the International Slow Food Movement.