About

The second annual Dingle Food & Wine Festival will take place on the
3rd-5th of October, 2008, in and around Dingle, Co. Kerry.

The festival will include series of cookery demonstrations, special
menus in restaurants, a food market, a cheese and wine exposition,
wine seminars, and culinary trails.

It will also include the first annual Blas na hÉireann National Irish
Food awards. (More on that here).

Cookery demonstrations: A mobile kitchen will be set up in St.
James Church and a variety of both local and national chefs
demonstrated how to prepare various dishes.

Special Menus: Restaurants will create varied tasting menus on the
Friday and Saturday nights of the festival, featuring local produce.

Food Market: A food and wine market will operate throughout town.

Cheese and Wine: There will be tutored wine tastings and seminars.

Culinary Food Trails: Shops twinned with artisan producers will
highlight both food and some of the interesting retail offerings in
Dingle. Oyster tasting in a gallery, scallops and cider in a pub, and a
wine tasting in a crystal shop were just a few of the pairings last year.
This year, there will be many more exciting pairings!

Foraging Walk: How to forage wild foods and survive from the coast.

Charity: Last year, the festival raised close to €2,000 for Hope
Guatemala.