Category: Events

  • Irish Gin & Tonic Fest

    Last year, Great Irish Beverages produced Dublin Gin & Tonic Fest – a citywide celebration of Irish gins. For 2016, they are taking the festival  around the entire island of Ireland to all 32 counties! Irish Gin & Tonic Fest is talking place from June 20th – 25th and lots of bars, restaurants and hotels…

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  • Real Bread Ireland & Real Bread Week

    As the mainstream bakery sector gears up to promote their National Bread Week, Real Bread Ireland, the newly-established network of independent Irish craft bakers are set to unveil their own alternative programme of events, Real Bread Week (October 4th-10th). Real Bread Week is a programme of demos, talks, tastings and open days that are free…

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  • Biddy White Lennon, Food & Wine Hall of Fame Award

    By 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

    Fancy 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

    Already 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

    For 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

    Brabazon 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

    Food 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

    Recounting 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

    The 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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