Lucinda O’Sullivan’s restaurant review: Is chef Angelo Vagiotis on track for a Michelin star with the exquisite Pullman?

Whirling up to the magnificent five-star Glenlo Abbey Hotel in Galway last September while on my own Poirot mission as a judge/hotel inspector for the Gold Medal Awards, I didn’t quite discover a murder on the Orient Express in the Pullman carriages of their eponymous restaurant, but I did unearth one of the best-kept culinary secrets of 2024. “How did she know I was here? I’m not ready for her,” chef Angelo Vagiotis, was reported to have said. Truth was, I didn’t know he was there, I just got lucky, scooping the story of the new journey he was embarking upon — a journey that would take place in the two historic train carriages that were once indeed part of the original Orient Express travelling the rails of Europe in the early 20th century.

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