Nominated for the James Beard Award.

The best vegetarian cookbook, from the greatest vegetarian chef

“This is not only the best vegetarian restaurant in Ireland, but one of the best restaurants of any kind.” So states Frommers in their 2003 Guide to Ireland. Café Paradiso is an unassuming little restaurant in the heart of Cork City in Ireland yet it has been hailed far and wide as “the best vegetarian restaurant in Europe” and so is a contender for best vegetarian restaurant in the world. Fodors claims it “serves Mediterranean-style food, which is so tasty that even dedicated meat-eaters forget it’s vegetarian.” The reason for all this praise is the owner and chef, Denis Cotter, a quiet unassuming man, not unlike his restaurant, who, like all great chefs, is an obsessive. His obsession is to create the most exciting vegetarian dishes possible with the freshest possible produce, an ambition he has realized with remarkable success. In this book he serves up 140 recipes that make the very best of whatever vegetables are freshest at any given time of the year. Cotter’s Café Paradiso Seasons has been hailed, in the Bridgestone Guide to Ireland, as “the best cookbook ever written by a working chef.”

Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbooks Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook

Praise for the Book

“The best cookbook ever written by a working chef”

--Bridgestone Guide to Ireland

“The 40 fruits and vegetables that bask in the sunlight of this book’s recipes clearly have been the subject of some serious thinking: each one is presented in way that emphasizes the variety of its flavors. . . . Cotter is the kind of chef who loves the nutty flavor of fresh kale, the shape of a pumpkin and the sweetness of a ripe tomato: gourmet vegetarians will revel in his inventions.”

--Publishers Weekly

“Every recipe leaps off the page with its exciting flavours. This is not a book for instant gratification, rather for lots of prolonged pleasure.”

--The Independent (London)

“This is a cookbook to treasure. If you love food, you will love this.”

--Food & Wine magazine

Praise for the Restaurant

“Here is a restaurant which treats food with wit, knowledge, spirit and enjoyment . . . it just happens to be vegetarian.”

--The Guardian (London)

About the Author

Denis Cotter is owner of the Café Paradiso restaurant in Cork. This is his first book in North America.