Food and Eating in Ireland

Where do you want to eat?

For most people a visit to Ireland is not made in expectation of having great food, which means that a lot of visitors have a very pleasant surprise in store!

A new generation of Irish chefs, well travelled and influenced by cooking in all corners of the world, are using fresh locally grown ingredients in new and interesting ways, keeping the natural flavour and freshness to the fore.

Add to this a growing number of artisan food producers, a constantly widening network of farmer's markets selling fresh local produce direct to the public and, of course, an increasingly affluent society who can afford to eat out more, and there is the basis of a very vibrant food scene.

Food News from Ireland

If you are in Ireland in June 2007, get yourself to Dublin on the weekend of June 14th -17th for the Taste of Ireland Festival, an unmissable event for lovers of good food.

Oysters take centre stage in September, when a Festival in their honour is held in Galway.

Guides to Eating Out in Ireland

Print out and take along our local eating out guides and you really will not go wrong.

For each location, we have recommended places where you can eat well, no matter what your budget - from takeaways that have perfected 'fish and chips' or pubs serving a simple but excellent lunches to world class Michelin starred restaurants where dinner is an event.

Enjoy!

Irish Traditional Recipes

Irish Stew (above) Champ, Bacon and Cabbage, soda bread and brack - these are all foods closely associated with Ireland and still regularly seen on Irish tables. We share some of our own family recipes and stories about many of the traditional foods of Ireland.

Traditional Irish Recipes >>

History of Irish Food

Ireland has been a faming country for thousands of years, its story often dominated by food, its production and availability. The history of the 19th and 20th centuries in Ireland in particular has to focus on the potato famine of 1846-1850, in which over a million people died and which changed the country forever.

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Posted by: Latasha
11 Jun 2007, 09:06
Ireland is my fave place to visit.
I love everything about it!

Posted by: morgan
30 Jul 2007, 23:51
I've never been to ireland but I love it's traditional foods It's awsome. I'm irish so one day I'll go there and learn to cook there

Posted by: Wellboy76
15 Jan 2008, 12:41
You list restaurants from four of the 5 cities in Ireland, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. It is shameful that there is no listing for Waterford, shameful!

Note from Dochara: I know it is, and I'm sorry. I've been meaning to add Waterford for ages and will do so soon.

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