Tickets are on sale for the 12th West Waterford Festival of Food.
Food lovers from across Ireland will descend upon Dungarvan this April for the West Waterford Festival of Food.
It takes place from Friday April 26th to Sunday April 28th and includes everything from foraging trails through the Comeragh Mountains, dinners in historic castles and theatre in a cattle mart.
Set to be the biggest year yet in its 12-year history, the festival has announced details of its jam-packed 2019 bi-lingual festival programme which pays homage to the strong Gaeltacht roots of West Waterford.
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Once again, members of Food the Waterford Way will feature strongly, and many are house-hold names whose reputations are unparalleled in the foodie world. Harty’s Oysters, Comeragh Mountain Lamb, Barron’s Bakery, Knockanore Cheese, Legacy Irish Cider, Dungarvan Brewing Company, Blackwater Distillery, The Sea Gardener, Coffee House Lane, Baldwin’s Ice Cream, Early Bird Eggs, Mezze, Pure Food and Nutrilicous will all have starring roles throughout the festival duration.
There is also a full children’s programme, bus tours along with a Farmer’s Market on Thursday, Dungarvan Country Market on Friday, The Quayside Market on Saturday and The Festival Market on Sunday, when over 100 stalls will fill Dungarvan town with the best of local and Irish artisan food. Over 50,000 people from across Ireland attended the annual event in 2018.
For the first time ever, a host of well-known and highly accomplished female chefs fill many of the top festival spots and they will outnumber the boys!
Michelin-starred Chef Danni Barri (Eipic), Maeve Walsh (Canteen), Holly Dalton (Gertrude Restaurant / 3fe) Paula Stakelum (Ashford Castle), Rose Green (formerly of In de Wulf, Belgium) and Lily Ramirez-Foran (Picado Mexican) are all part of the 2019 line up alongside Michelin-starred Ross Lewis (Chapter One), Martin Shanahan (Fishy Fishy) and Peter Everett (Everett’s Restaurant).
They will be joined by Judit McNally (Ormond Café), Nicola Crowley and Dvir Nusery (Mezze Middle Eastern), Marie Power (The Sea Gardener), Louise Clark (formerly Nude Food) and Tom Walsh (new executive chef of The Old Bank, Dungarvan), ensuring an abundance of riches for hungry food lovers in Dungarvan that weekend.
One of the largest community festivals in Waterford, it simply couldn’t take place without the generous support of its funders, Waterford City & County Council, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Fáilte Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge, LEO Waterford, Waterford Leader Partnership and its sponsors Flahavan’s, Glanbia, Dawn Meats, Garvey’s, Eurofins, FloGas, Blackwater Distillery, San Pellegrino, Coillte, FBD, LocalLink and AIB.
For more information visit www.westwaterfordfestivaloffood.com/
