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A Boutique Festival Celebrating All Things Food and Drink at Beyond the Pale

Beyond The Plate is a celebration of all things food & drink at Beyond The Pale. Festival goers can feast from some of the best Irish street food vendors and enjoy a stellar line-up of talks, tastings, chats, demos and craic on the dedicated food & drink stage.  This summer the Beyond The Plate stage, curated …

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Euro-Toques Young Chef 2018

Here Are The Six Chefs Through to The Euro-Toques Young Chef 2018 Final

This morning, Euro-Toques Young Chef presented by LaRousse Foods announced its six finalists for 2018, following on from the competitions skill test yesterday. Judges for the competition included Kevin Thornton, Gareth Mullins and Wade Murphy, as well as special guest judge Tom Brown from London’s Cornerstone. The semi-finalists were challenged to create a dish using …

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Experience Latin Street Culture with CASA BACARDÍ at Electric Picnic

This weekend, Electric Picnic returns to Stradbally in Laois for a jam-packed festival of music, food, theatrics and more. The sold-out Electric Picnic festival, running from Friday 31st to Sunday 2nd September, is set to be the event of the summer with huge international acts playing over the weekend. The award-winning stage is back again with a stellar …

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Food Feasts

Food Feasts Announced For Ireland’s Exciting Brand New Festival

All Together Now is making its first appearance this August Bank Holiday Weekend at Curraghmore Estate in Waterford. Ireland’s newest festival, filled with music, artists, performers and food feasts, it is set to be a weekend of delights. Bringing an electic and exciting mix of food and drinks to the festival is Food & Feasts. This line …

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Kevin Thornton to Showcase ‘Food as Art’ at This Year’s Body & Soul Festival

Luxury champagne brand Veuve Clicquot is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Rosé Champagne in sparkling style at this year’s Body & Soul Festival. Expertly blended 200 years ago by the ‘Grand Dame of Champagne’, Madame Clicquot, it creates a tantilising sensation on the palate. A full bodied drink with fruity flavours of ripe cherries and strawberries, …

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Electric Picnic

Electric Picnic Puts The Theatrics Into Food At This Year’s Festival

Electric Picnic, Ireland’s leading music festival returns and with it comes the highly enjoyable Theatre of Food. Now in it’s 10th year, Theatre of Food is even bigger and better than before. Bringing food demonstrations, cocktail masterclasses, food discussions and more, Theatre of Food is set to be a highlight of the festival. This year …

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Follow the Flavour – 12 Chefs in Ireland You Need to Follow on Social Media

Thanks to social media we have now constant access to the real-time musings of chefs all across Ireland. 280 characters at a time, or square by square on Instagram, those who devote their lives to food fill in the gaps between our visits to their restaurants not only with a generous serving of new dishes …

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Burren Slow Food Festival

Get a Glimpse at The Line-Up For This Year’s Burren Slow Food Festival

The Burren Slow Food Festival is taking place this May, with the theme “Taste The Atlantic – A Seafood Journey” taking centre stage. The festival was launched this week in Dublin’s Klaw Seafood Café by chair Birgitta Hedin Curtin in collaboration with BIM and Failte Ireland Food Champion, Niall Sabongi. Speaking about this year’s festival, …

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The Philosopher’s Stove – An Evening at Kevin Thornton KOOKs

Hushed tones, Chinese whispers, hows and what ifs, a heady mix of inquisitive responses whirred around the news of the closure of the iconic Thornton’s restaurant last year, but what followed for one of Ireland’s most revered chefs was a cross-continental journey of self-discovery and reevaluation. We don’t need to talk about Kevin, or speculate. …

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Veuve Clicquot To Host Stunning Masquerade Ball at Body & Soul Festival

From Champagne to Spice Bags – Body & Soul is Foodie Heaven this Weekend

Body&Soul is a bizarre and beautiful banquet and is far more than a music festival. This weekend, from 23-25th June, the festival is offering an unmissable gastronomic experience for lovers of fine food and drink too. Feeding the body and nourishing the soul, festival foodies are invited to join Food on Board and Veuve Clicquot …

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Nourish the Body and Feed the Soul – Body&Soul Announces Fantastic Food Line Up

Body&Soul is a bizarre and beautiful banquet and is far more than a music festival. This year, from 23-25th June, the festival is offering an exceptional gastronomic experience for lovers of fine food and drink too. Festival foodies are invited to join Food on Board and Veuve Clicquot for tantalising treats and sparkling conversations in …

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Kevin Thornton Tipperary Breakfast

Kevin Thornton Collaborates with Local Food Producers to Create a New Signature Tipperary Breakfast

What do you get when you combine one of Ireland’s best chefs with the finest ingredients produced in his home county? An innovative and deliciously nourishing breakfast it seems. Tipperary Food Producers Network have commissioned renowned chef and fellow Tipperary man Kevin Thornton to create a signature Tipperary Breakfast created entirely using local produce. Working …

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Chef Kevin Thornton Announces Closure of Thornton’s Restaurant

One year after the loss of his Michelin star, chef Kevin Thornton has announced the closure of his restaurant Thornton’s, on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green. The renowned restaurant, located within Dublin’s five-star Fitzwilliam Hotel, is set to serve their final customers at the end of October. The news will come as a shock to loyal …

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Athrú 2016 Conference on Gender Balance Takes Place in Galway this July

A group of chefs, restaurateurs and industry experts are gathering in Galway this month to examine gender roles in the culinary and hospitality sector. Taking place in 56 Central on Shop Street, Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th July, Athrú 2016: Empowering Women in the Culinary Arts in Ireland is the first conference of its kind …

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Euro-toques Celebrates 30 Years in Ireland with Dinner Series

Founded by Myrtle Allen in 1986, Euro-toques Ireland is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The Irish branch of the European Community of Chefs and Cooks is hosting a series of dinners to mark the occasion. Counting Ireland’s finest chefs and cooks among its members, the events will be catered by 15 of Ireland’s most …

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Dax Restaurant Olivier Meisonnave

From Dax with Love – Olivier Meisonnave of Dax Restaurant

Stepping off the street on a bright Spring day, down into the intimate Georgian basement dining room of Dax has a bewildering effect. With it’s open fire, dark stained ceilings, rough rendered walls, and stacks of wooden wine crates, you are effortlessly transported from city centre Dublin to the wine cellar of country manor house in …

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Kevin Thornton Bauknecht Cooking Demonstration in Arnotts with Social Gallery

On Saturday, April 16th, Michelin starred chef Kevin Thornton, preformed a seasonal cooking demonstration, in association with Bauknecht, for over 100 lucky guests, press and influencers in Arnotts, Dublin. Monica Reade from Image Interiors & Living and Eoin Higgins from CARA Magazine were in attendance along with online influencers such as Rory Carrick from Eat …

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See Kevin Thornton Cook Live at Arnotts

On Saturday 16th April from 12-1pm, Michelin starred chef Kevin Thornton will perform a live seasonal surprise cookery demonstration, in association with Bauknecht, for over 150 lucky guests in Arnotts newly refurbished Kitchenware department, as part of their Home and Furniture Event. Guests will enjoy a demonstration of various culinary delights made by Kevin Thornton, as …

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Kevin Thornton Joins World Class Chefs to Talk Food Philosophy in Lisdoonvarna

Three of Ireland’s emerging and Michelin-star chefs will gather next week for an evening of cookery demonstrations and food philosophy discussion. On Friday 11th March, Kevin Thornton will be joined in The Burren Storehouse in Lisdoonvarna by Jamie Simpson from the Culinary Vegetable Institute of The Chef’s Garden and Enda McEvoy of Loam Restaurant in …

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