About the Dingle Food and Wine Festival

This year, 2011, will Dingle host its fifth annual Dingle Food & Wine Festival. The festival was founded in 2007 with the aim of promoting the best that the Dingle Peninsula had to offer in terms of food, fun and the beauty of Dingle.

The town is renowned for its restaurants, most of which offer excellent local seafood. Once cited as ‘The most beautiful place on earth' by the National Geographic, Dingle was voted among the top 100 destinations in the world by Trip Advisor.

The Dingle Food and Wine festival has grown steadily in popularity and is a food lover’s dream. Highlights of the festival include a Taste Trail in over 55 outlets, where festival goers can purchase taste tickets and sample local cuisine delights in locations that vary from pubs and galleries to shop and restaurants.

The festival also plays host to the annual Blas na hÉireann, National Irish Food awards, which are now in their fourth year running. The awards were the brainchild of the Dingle Food & Wine Festival. The Blas na hÉireann, highlight and celebrate the quality and imagination of the best Irish food producers, with gold, silver and bronze medals in over 30 categories, for companies producing the best-tasting foods made in Ireland.

The festival takes place annually during the first weekend in October.