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Food In 5 Minutes #32: Belfast Restaurant Week returns as food-led business closures break 570

The Waterford Harvest Festival, ice cream exports from Ireland and quirky crisp flavours join this week's news roundup.

Ken McGuire by Ken McGuire
11th August 2024
in Food For Thought
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Food In 5 Minutes #32

Food In 5 Minutes #32

While you're here...

Lady Helen’s John Kelly named Best Chef in Ireland as Tabú, Arán join in wins at Irish Restaurant Awards

Kilkenny’s Campagne, Lady Helen at Mount Juliet retain MICHELIN stars for 2025

With a coffee in hand (an oat cappuccino from the kitchen counter, no less), it’s time for another helping of Food In 5 Minutes.

If you’re not familiar with it, this is the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories plucked from Ireland across the past week, served up in five minutes or less, ish. You can also get a written version containing these stories by joining my free newsletter here.

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Bonus: Read The Week In Food #32 and get some extra long reads for your Sunday morning plus recipes for the week ahead.

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  • 577 Irish Food-Led Businesses Have Closed Since VAT Rise Last September
  • Over 570 restaurants ‘forced to close’ since September VAT hike.
  • Waterford Harvest Festival – What’s On
  • Belfast Restaurant Week (official website)
  • Belfast Restaurant Week to return this October with a fresh flavour to support city centre’s hospitality scene
  • EU ice cream production fell by 1.4% in 2023
  • Ireland is the fifth-largest exporter of ice cream in the EU
  • Walkers teams up with Heinz to launch three new crisp flavours — and one is controversial

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