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Tara Gartlan Chocolate X Outhouse: a special Pride collaboration

Tara Gartlan, a skilled pastry chef and chocolatier based in Co Monaghan, has released a beautiful limited edition collection to celebrate Pride month – with 10% of every sale going to Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre...

5 Female Sweet Treat Innovators Shaping Confectionery

We’re still in the midst of Women’s History Month, and here at Char, we’re raising our glasses to the women who innovate, champion, and inspire with a series that shines a light on just some of the queens of the food and drink industry that we admire...

What's For Dinner? Tara Gartlan's Gluten Free Brownies

Tara is like the Willy Wonka of Monaghan and she invited sisters Sadhbh and Rosa to visit her extra special kitchen where they tasted chocolates, baked brownies and the greatest hot-chocolate of their lives...

The Irish chocolate boom: a sweet success story

Tara Gartlan was a senior pastry chef in Michelin-starred The Greenhouse and Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen, before setting up her own...

Bake From Scratch

Tara was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease while studying and working as a pastry chef so gluten-free is really important in her baking...

Stir up a festive pud

Today is the day when families traditionally get together to make their Christmas pudding, but canny home cooks should throw their prep work...

COLLAB ALERT! Tara Gartlan Michelin star pastry chef

This time we have Michelin star pastry chef Tara Gartlan producing the most unbelievable handmade chocolates! Three amazing flavours...

50 heroines of the Irish food and drink scene

From the moment she learned the significance of Michelin stars, Tara Gartlan knew that was the direction she wanted to take in her culinary career...