Category: Events
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Biddy White Lennon, Food & Wine Hall of Fame Award
Read more: Biddy White Lennon, Food & Wine Hall of Fame AwardBy Georgina Campbell. Warmest congratulations to our fellow Guild member and dear friend, Biddy White Lennon, on her entry to the Hall of Fame at the 2015 Food&Wine Magazine Restaurant of the Year Awards, held at Dublin’s Intercontinental (former Four Seasons) Hotel in Ballsbridge in August. According to the official citation, the reasons for the…
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The Inaugural Dublin Wine Fest
Read more: The Inaugural Dublin Wine FestFancy winning yourself a free dinner with wine pairings by correctly answering ten fun wine-based quiz questions over dinner? Or like the sound of complimentary nibbles with a discounted wine-based tipple? Curious to discover the role wine has played in the evolution of cocktails, or to learn about the history of wine-making? Interested in what…
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Ballymaloe LitFest 2015
Read more: Ballymaloe LitFest 2015Already highly-anticipated, the third Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine runs from 15th-17th May 2015, and tickets for the event go on sale on 7th January. From world-famous chefs to boutique coffee roasters, guerrilla gardeners to polished restaurateurs, cocktail specialists to renowned wine makers, the unique international approach of the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary…
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A Little Taste of Mexico Around Ireland
Read more: A Little Taste of Mexico Around IrelandFor fourth consecutive year, the Mexican Gastronomic and Cultural Festival, “A Taste of Mexico” has showcased food, drinks, music and fashion from all over the 31 States of Mexico and Mexico City to Ireland in the week-long festival that has been running this week, ending on Sunday 23rd November. Mexican food has become the food…
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Brabazon Restaurant Tasting Evenings
Read more: Brabazon Restaurant Tasting EveningsBrabazon restaurant goes the whole hogg with a new series of tasting evenings. Last summer IFWG members spent a gorgeous day in a small corner of Co Meath visiting members of the Slane Food Circle before dining on some of their produce in the prettiest of settings in Brabazon Restaurant. The restaurant is on the…
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Theatre of Food at Electric Picnic 2014
Read more: Theatre of Food at Electric Picnic 2014Food Demos Experience the excitement of celebrity and Michelin-‐star chefs creating stunning dishes in their wellies, in full Electric Picnic party mode. TV favourite Neven Maguire will showcase the best of ‘modern Irish’ cooking; award-winning Sunil Ghai will demonstrate ‘Indian’ as you’ve never seen it before; Outlier JP McMahon of Aniar will demo the perfect…
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High Spirits
Read more: High SpiritsRecounting a very interesting recent meeting of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild members, by Lizzie Gore Grimes @lizgoregrimes As you can imagine with so many impassioned foodies in the group our Irish Food Writers’ Guild meetings can often get a bit spirited. But our recent meeting really took things up a notch – in the…
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Concrete Tiki: Programme of Food Events, Workshops and Experiments at IMMA this July
Read more: Concrete Tiki: Programme of Food Events, Workshops and Experiments at IMMA this JulyThe programme of Concrete Tiki reflects a current atmosphere of collaboration between food and art, while responding to the exhibition that will launch in IMMA at that time: a retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica that will run from July 19th to October 5th in the museum. Michelle Darmody, The Cake Café,…
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‘Somm Night’: Wine Tasting with Master Sommeliers at Galway Film Fleadh
Read more: ‘Somm Night’: Wine Tasting with Master Sommeliers at Galway Film FleadhThe 26th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with wine merchants Cases Wine Warehouse, are delighted to present an innovative sensory screening of Somm, a unique documentary which takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world – the Court of Master Sommeliers and the massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam. This…
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Comber Potato Festival on Saturday June 7th 2014
Read more: Comber Potato Festival on Saturday June 7th 2014The second Comber Potato Festival will take place in the town’s main square this Saturday from 10am-5pm. An array of Northern Ireland’s top food producers and chefs will be there, but the star of the show will be the superspud that is the Comber Early. This free event will be a celebration of this princely…
