Blas na hÉireann 2024
The winners have been announced, the finalists celebrated, the products showcased, talked about and tasted. Blas na hÉireann is all over now – until next year.
Category: Food Events
Euro-Toques Food Awards 2024
There was a joyful gathering of more than 100 chefs and producers at Airfield Estate on Monday for the 2024 Euro-Toques Food Awards.
Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards 2024: celebrating sustainable excellence
As Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for the last three years, one of my most rewarding jobs has been co-ordinating and organising the annual IFWG Food Awards event and this year we awarded oysters, organic chicken and regeneratively reared meat, traditionally made pastry, Ireland’s first vermouth and Irish food innovators.
Tasting Wexford with the IFWG
The sun shone on IFWG members as we gathered for our summer outing to Wexford in August. We chose that area as a destination because the county has been working on developing a food...
Social gastronomy + Food on the Edge 2021
How hard is it to be social after 18 months of being told to stay at home? How difficult is it to survive in the world of gastronomy after the whole carpet has been...
International Women’s Day 2021: Celebrating Women in Irish Food
For International Women’s Day 2020 we gathered in a room at GMIT. We didn’t know it then, but it was to be the last public in-real-life event for some time. Schools closed that Thursday...
Cheese, chocolate & black pudding: Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards 2020
Three simple products: cheese, chocolate and black pudding. When done right, when made by people who care deeply about provenance, about craft and about the food that they produce, these can be sublime. Cheesemaker...
Euro-Toques Food Awards 2019
When the best chefs and producers come together, they create magic on the plate. It is a natural synergy, a creative partnership that thrives on passion and excellence – and one that all restaurant-lovers...