Upcoming Irish Food Events & Festivals calendar for 2025

This is a growing list of key Irish food events and food festivals taking place across 2024 and into 2025.

If you’ve got an event ready for spring / summer / autumn / winter 2025, 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: Sunday, January 5, 2025

Events in 2025

If you’re already planning ahead for 2025, I’d love to hear from you.

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.

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February Food Events 2025

• February TBC: Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland reveal, Manchester
• February TBC: New Zealand Wine Fair 2025, Dublin
• February TBC: National Commis Chef Apprenticeship Skills Competition, Kerry
• February TBC: Kinsale Restaurant Week, Cork
• February TBC: Asia Market’s Feast of Food Trucks, Dublin

March Food Events 2025

• March TBC: Irish Food Trade Connect Forum, Kildare
• March 20: Guaranteed Irish Business Awards 2025, Dublin
• March 7-9: Love Your Food Show, Belfast

April Food Events 2025

• April 12-13: Dublin Coffee Festival, Dublin
• April 13: Irish Vegan Festival, Belfast
• April 25-27: West Waterford Festival of Food, Waterford

May Food Events 2025

• May TBC: Taste of Monaghan, Monaghan
• May TBC: Cork Veg Fest, Cork
• May TBC: Enniscorthy Rockin’ Food & Fruit Festival
• May TBC: Happy Days Beer & Food Festival, Dublin
• May TBC: FoodieFest, Kilkenny
• May TBC: Clare Food & Drink Fleadh, Clare
• May TBC: Balmoral Show, Lisburn
• May TBC: Kilkenny Beer Festival, Kilkenny
• May TBC: Whiskey Live, Dublin
• May TBC: Tralee Food Festival, Kerry
• May TBC: Ballymaloe Festival of Food, Cork
• May TBC: Burren Slow Food Festival, Clare
• May TBC: Irish Garlic Mayo Championships, Cork
• May TBC: Street Feast, Nationwide

June Food Events 2025

• June TBC: Taste of Wicklow, Wicklow
• June TBC: Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas, Carlow
• June TBC: Loud Sunset Food Festival, Wexford
• June TBC: Taste of Dublin, Dublin
• June TBC: Limerick Garden Festival, Limerick
• June TBC: Comber Earlies Food Festival, Down
• June TBC: Guaranteed Irish Food Forum, Dublin
• June TBC: Kaleidoscope, Wicklow
• June TBC: Flavours of Fingal, Dublin

July Food Events 2025

• July TBC: LegenDerry Street Food Festival, Derry
• July TBC: Kilmore Quay Seafood Festival, Wexford
• July TBC: Hagstravaganza 10, Sligo
• July TBC: Wells Food Fest, Gorey

August Food Events 2025

• August TBC: Eatyard’s Wine & Cheese Festival, Dublin
• August TBC: The Big Grill Festival, Dublin
• August TBC: Eatyard’s Crisp Festival, Dublin
• August TBC: Monaghan Street Food Festival
• August TBC: Dalkey Lobster Festival, Dublin

September Food Events 2025

• September TBC: Armagh Food & Cider Weekend, Armagh
• September TBC: Clarenbridge Oyster Festival, Galway
• September TBC: Waterford Harvest Festival, Waterford
• September TBC: Tide & Turf Beef & Seafood Festival, Portavogie
• September TBC: Feast Cork, Cork
• September TBC: Cromane Seafest, Kerry
• September TBC: Chill Festival, Bangor
• September TBC: National Ploughing Championships, Laois
• September TBC: Taste of Kildare
• September TBC: Taste of Sligo
• September TBC: Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival
• 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

October Food Events 2025

• October TBC: Dingle Food Festival, Kerry
• October TBC: Belfast Restaurant Week, Belfast
• October TBC: Portrush Beer Festival, Antrim
• 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
• October TBC: Food On The Edge, Galway
• October TBC: Savour Kilkenny Food Festival, Kilkenny

Diary now booking, drop me a line to share your event

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Get your event in the diary!

Make sure to include your event, whatever it is, by emailing me today.

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