TASTE OF DUBLIN REELS IN BIG CATCH HUGH
THE sun is shining and the Leaving Cert is in full flow which can mean only one thing — the return of Taste Of Dublin.
Next week’s food festival in the Iveagh Gardens will feature demos by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and GBBO winner Candice Brown from June 14 to 17.
The River Cottage boss has just published his second vegetarian cookbook, Much More Veg, and will be cooking in the Neff Taste Kitchen at 3.30pm on June 15. Candice will also be taking part and will be on stage at 2.30pm and 8.30pm on June 16.
Dublin restaurant kitchens will be well represented throughout the four days with three members of the Glover’s Alley team in action on June 17.
Aoife Noonan will give a pastry demo at 2.20pm, and Andy McFadden and Phily Roe team up for an evening presentation at 6.30pm. Chapter One’s Ross Lewis and Darren Hogarty take the stage at 6.30pm on Saturday, and the Merrion Hotel send out Paul Kelly on Thursday at 8.30pm and Ed Cooney on Sunday at 7.30pm.
The Neff Taste Kitchen will have back-to-back demos running each day, from 12.30pm until close, and the stage will be the biggest ever built for this event. All that cooking is bound to stimulate appetites, and there are several changes to the food offering this year.
Not all restaurants will be present every day so the menu will change, and there will be a vegan and non-vegan daily specials. Veginity, Moodley Manor and Nut Butter will provide vegan options for the daily specials.
GBBO winner Candice will collaborate with Roly’s Bistro head chef Paul Cartwright to stage a dessert buffet on June 16 and 17. When you have the weather there is no better place than here but be warned, tickets at €15 sell fast. To book yours, visit