Press & Info

We love to hear from everyone, and our email is hiya@gastrogays.com for all kinds of inquiries, comments and chat.

Reviews (Restaurant, café, bar, product…)

The original reason why we started up this blog was to explore and visit a number of places across Dublin then review them for the site. Since moving to London, we have tweaked our mission to an extent and still enjoy visiting and reviewing restaurants, cafes and bars, albeit a little less than before, as our own recipes, photography and personalities have taken more of the spotlight.

We have a stuck rule however, that we will not write negative reviews. Our blog was born with honesty running through it’s veins, and sometimes that requires critique and harsh opinion, but we will not waste our time on time spent damning someone else’s business on our site. Running a blog takes up a lot of time and we don’t believe in spending our spare time consciously bringing negativity to our labour of love. We find the good in almost everything, and if it isn’t good to us, we’d rather just not review – just how we wouldn’t recommend a place to friends and family if we didn’t truly support and enjoy it.

We also try and visit a business at least twice (often three times to get the best opinion and experience) before reviewing it. This is extremely important for us, as it means we get a rounded picture, and also dine at different times of day, eat different menus and get different service each time, so we can provide you with the best insight. This practice also takes up a lot of free time and cost, always at our own expense, so we take it very seriously.

Oh, and we don’t believe in writing favourable reviews or pushing content in exchange for a free meal or product, by the way.

Photography

All photography taken by us, on our trusty Nikon D3100, and styled and edited by us too. Wherever photography not taken by us is featured, we will always credit and link to the original source. Use and/or reproduction of our images without our approval is strictly forbidden, though we are often happy to share following discussion.

Videos:

Get Baking with Paul Hollywood – Waitrose TV (SpunGold TV, Spring 2014)