The food area has been announced for Stradbally this year…
The Theatre of Food will feature Michelin star chefs, fish and chips experts and toasted sandwich champions, in chats, cooking and exhibiting across three stages, celebrating all things food, barbecue, and drinks and more.
Expect appearances from JP McMahon, Marcus O’Laoire, Graham Herterich aka the Cupcake Bloke, chef Aishling Moore,, TV chef Erica Drum will host Chimac from Dublin in a Cluck-off and internet personality Garron Noone and rockstar chef Kevin Thornton will pile in on our conversation about Irish snack culture and Cork’s reigning Toasted Sandwich Champions 51CornMarket will return to take on their newest opponents Aran Bakery from Kilkenny.
Irish drinks writer Aoife Carrigy curates the Drinks theatre, which will feature Kate Dempsey of Kinsale Mead Company and Mel Roddy of Gursha Ethiopian Restaurant will look at Honey Wine across centuries and continents, a demystify wine chat with Bridey’s Wine Chats and The Long and Short of It podcast, and the Beer Ladies Podcast will trace the development of Irish beer culture, from medieval ale wives to modern styles and trends.
Boozy seafood brunch bites with Valentia Island Vermouth, The Old Spot, Burren Smokehouse, Carlingford Oysters and Leslie Williams, and Oisin Davis author of Irish Kitchen Cocktails, will be throwing a madcap Punch Bowl Party alongside Kristin Jensen of Nine Bean Rows Books. Polish Wine Fest and Vinifinesse will look at the surge in quality in Polish and Hungarian wines, Kinara Kitchen will take on Whelehans Wines in a cocktails versus wine food pairing challenge, and Majken Bech-Bailey and friends will look at the NoLo revolution and all things Kombucha.
Susan Boyle and Shamim de Brún will turn the Drinks Theatre into the Abbey Theatre, with a double bill of A Wine Goose Chase and Splitting the G, and Shannon Healey of the Collector, Jennie Moran of Luncheonette and Izzedeen Alkaraj of Cafe Izz will explore international coffee cultures with the United Nations of Coffee. Ireland’s leading authority on pints, Ali Dunworth, will be joined by Sian Conway and Shamin de Brún who will take our guests through a blind taste test on Irish crisps, with some beer involved, of course.
On the Theatre of Food Garden Stage, expect the best barbecue bites all weekend long from Smokin’ Soul Barbeque honchos Pat and Jim. Across the weekend guest chefs will deliver the most mouth-watering tastes, including Sham Hanifa, Best-Selling author of the new Blasta Book Agak-Agak; Ireland’s Chinese food champion Kwanghi Chan; Lily Ramirez, the ultimate authority on Mexican cuisine in Ireland, and there will be echt gaucho Argentinian delights from Killarney’s Tango Street Food. The Garden Stage will have Filipino tastes from Alex O’Neil and Richie Castillo aka Bahay, and barbecue masterclasses from John Relihan of Pitt Bros and John Whelan of the Devils Menu.
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