This is a growing list of key Irish food events and food festivals taking place across 2026.
If you’ve got an event ready for spring / summer / autumn / winter 20256, or maybe you’re planning even further ahead, don’t be left out – email details of your own event, festival or gathering to ken@kenonfood.com.
Note that events marked TBC have unconfirmed dates at the time of writing.
Last updated: Thursday, January 1, 2026Events in 2026
Have a food event happening in 2026? Now’s a good time to reach out and let me know. If you’re a journalist looking to publish or borrow this list, it might be nice to let me know too đ
Plenty of the annual events will be back, from Taste to Savour to everything in between, but if you’ve got something happening on the food front in Ireland that you would like to list, and the event is available to the public (not a member’s only or exclusive offering), then let me know the details by email.
January Food Events 2026
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February Food Events 2026
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March Food Events 2026
- March 6-8: Love Your Food Show, Belfast
- March 27-29: Cork Whiskey Fest, Cork
- March TBD: Irish Restaurant Awards Leinster Region
- March TBD: Irish Food Trade Connect Forum
- March TBD: Guaranteed Irish Business Awards 2026, Dublin
- March TBD: Good Food Ireland Conference, Dublin
- March TBD: Irish Restaurant Awards Munster Region, Cork
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April Food Events 2026
- April 10-12: Dublin Coffee Festival, Dublin
- April 24-26: Waterford Festival of Food, Dungarvan
- April TBD: Irish Restaurant Awards Ulster Region
- April TBD: Irish Restaurant Awards Connaught Region
- April TBD: Irish Vegan Festival, Belfast
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May Food Events 2026
- May 1-3: Enniscorthy Rockin’ Food & Fruit Festival
- May 2-3: Festival of Gardens & Nature, Laois
- May 10: Burren Slow Food Festival, Clare
- May 13-16: Balmoral Show, Lisburn
- May 15-17: Ballymaloe Festival of Food, Cork (Tickets on sale 1 December 2025)
- May 23-24: Street Feast, Nationwide
- May TBD: Kilkenny Beer Festival, Kilkenny
- May TBD: Tralee Food Festival, Kerry
- May TBD: Irish Restaurant Awards All-Ireland Gala, Dublin
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June Food Events 2026
- June 5-6: Whiskey Live, Dublin
- June TBD: Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas, Carlow
- June TBD: Guaranteed Irish Food Forum, Dublin
- June 12-15: Taste of Dublin, Dublin
- June 13-15: Beyond The Pale (feat. Beyond The Plate), Glendalough Estate, Wicklow
- June TBD: Limerick Garden Festival, Limerick
- June TBD: Comber Earlies Food Festival, Down
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July Food Events 2026
- July 3-5: Kaleidoscope, Wicklow
- July TBC: Flavours of Fingal, Dublin
July TBC: Kilmore Quay Seafood Festival, Wexford - July TBC: Wells Food Fest, Gorey
- July TBC: LegenDerry Street Food Festival, Derry
- July TBC: Beach BBQ Festival, Bray
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August Food Events 2026
- August TBC: Eatyard’s Wine & Cheese Festival, Dublin
- August TBC: Hagstravaganza ’25, Sligo
- August TBC: The Big Grill Festival, Dublin
- August TBC: Taste of Kildare
- August TBC: Monaghan Street Food Festival
- August TBC: Eatyard’s Crisp Festival, Dublin
- August TBC: Dalkey Lobster Festival, Dublin
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September Food Events 2026
- September TBC: Armagh Food & Cider Weekend, Armagh
- September TBC: Waterford Harvest Festival, Waterford
- September TBC: Cromane Seafest, Kerry
- September TBC: National Ploughing Championships, Laois
- September TBC: Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival
- September TBC: Clarenbridge Oyster Festival, Galway
- September TBC: Tide & Turf Beef & Seafood Festival, Portavogie
- September TBC: Chill Festival, Bangor
- September TBC: Taste of Sligo
- September TBC: Dublin Veg Fest, Dublin
- September TBC: A Taste of West Cork, Cork
- September TBC: Yeast Meets West, Mayo
- September TBC: Sheridan’s Irish Food Festival, Meath
- September TBC: Oktoberfest, Belfast
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October Food Events 2026
- October TBC: Dingle Food Festival, Kerry
- October TBC: Portrush Beer Festival, Antrim
- October TBC: Savour Kilkenny Food Festival, Kilkenny
- October TBC: Food On The Edge, Galway
- October TBC: Belfast Restaurant Week, Belfast
- October TBC: Taste AND at Clandeboy, Bangor
- October TBC: Food Retail & Hospitality Expo, Dublin
- October TBC: Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale, Cork
- October TBC: Applefest Abbeyleix, Laois
- October TBC: All-Ireland Chowder Festival, Cork
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November Food Events 2026
- November TBC: Samhain Festival of Food & Culture, Meath
- November TBC: Kerry Drinks Festival, Killarney
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December Food Events 2026
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