The ninth edition of the Bridgestone Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna includes "all the good stuff and only the good stuff" from around the country. This isn't the best restaurants guide, it is the most indispensable guide to Ireland's superb food culture and includes shops, restaurants, markets, pubs, food producers and more.

Starting in South Leitrim, Cannaboe Confectionary, Ballinamore is declared a county treat. It states that the owner and creator, "Sharon Sweeney is a sugarcraft wizard."

Moving on to Carrick-on-Shannon Ciúin House and Hollywell Country House are given the thumbs up on the accommodation front. Ciúin House is described as a "vital counterpoint to the bland hotels that are littered throughout the country now."

And owners of the Hollywell Tom and Rosaleen Maher are praised for their "light hearted, witty, selfless hospitality" while also branding the Maher family as "legendary."

"My goodness but the world and his wife" are exclaimed to visit the Market Yard Farmers' Market on a Thursday morning in Carrick-on-Shannon.

The Oarsman gets another great write up with the authors saying Ronan and Conor Maher are "amongst the leading restauratuers in the North West, their Oarsman bar and restaurant a shining example of how to run a smart business that serves its community and its visitors."

"The age of the rediscovery of boxty is dawning and Timmy Faughnan is right there, ready for the deluge of interest in this most quixotic of potato products," the guide says of Dromod Homemade Boxty.

The Cottage in Jamestown rightly gets praise for it's delicious dishes and advises consumers that this place is "one to watch" in the future.

"You are a lucky food lover if you live within the distribution circle of Sinead and Pascal's cutting edge artisan baker" the guide starts off about Jinny's Bakery, Drumshanbo.