This is a growing list of key Irish food events and food festivals taking place across 2024. If you’ve got an event ready for spring / summer / autumn / winter 2025, or you’ve still got a rabbit to pull out of the hat before the end of 2024, 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 time of writing.

Last updated: Thursday, November 14, 2024

January Food Events 2024

January 5-7: Fish & Chips Festival (Fish & scampi dishes with beer pairings from Wicklow Wolf), The Purty Kitchen, Dublin
January 17: Welcome to 2024 and Kilkenny Whiskey Guild, Kilkenny
January 26-28: Irish Brewers Cup 2024, Dublin

February Food Events 2024

February 5: Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland reveal, Manchester
February 7: New Zealand Wine Fair 2024, Dublin
February 7: National Commis Chef Apprenticeship Skills Competition, Kerry
February 19-23: Kinsale Restaurant Week, Cork
February 24-25: Asia Market’s Feast of Food Trucks, Dublin
February 29 – 2 March: South East Whiskey Festival, Wexford

March Food Events 2024

March TBC: Me Auld Flower Food & Drink Festival, Dublin
March 1-3: Dublin Coffee Festival, Dublin
March 21: Irish Food Trade Connect Forum, Kildare
March 21: Guaranteed Irish Business Awards, Dublin
March 22-24: Love Your Food Show, Belfast

April Food Events 2024

April 19-21: West Waterford Festival of Food, Waterford
April 21: Irish Vegan Festival, Belfast

May Food Events 2024

TBC: Taste of Monaghan, Monaghan
TBC: Cork Veg Fest, Cork
May 3-5: Enniscorthy Rockin’ Food & Fruit Festival
May 4-5: Happy Days Beer & Food Festival, Dublin
May 4-5: FoodieFest, Kilkenny
May 10-12: Clare Food & Drink Fleadh, Clare
May 15-18: Balmoral Show, Lisburn
May 17-18: Kilkenny Beer Festival, Kilkenny
May 17-18: Whiskey Live, Dublin
May 17-19: Tralee Food Festival, Kerry
May 17-19: Ballymaloe Festival of Food, Cork
May 19: Burren Slow Food Festival, Clare
May 25: Irish Garlic Mayo Championships, Cork
May 25-26: Street Feast, Nationwide

June Food Events 2024

TBC: Taste of Wicklow, Wicklow
June 7-9: Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas, Carlow
June 8: Loud Sunset Food Festival, Wexford
June 13-16: Taste of Dublin, Dublin
June 16: Limerick Garden Festival, Limerick
June 21-22: Comber Earlies Food Festival, Down
June 27: Guaranteed Irish Food Forum, Dublin
June 28-30: Kaleidoscope, Wicklow
June 29-30: Flavours of Fingal, Dublin

July Food Events 2024

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

August Food Events 2024

August 8-11: Eatyard’s Wine & Cheese Festival, Dublin
August 22-25: The Big Grill Festival, Dublin
August 23-25: Eatyard’s Crisp Festival, Dublin
August 24: Monaghan Street Food Festival
August 24-25: Dalkey Lobster Festival, Dublin

September Food Events 2024

September 5-8: Armagh Food & Cider Weekend, Armagh
September 6-8: Clarenbridge Oyster Festival, Galway
September 6-8: Waterford Harvest Festival, Waterford
September 7: Tide & Turf Beef & Seafood Festival, Portavogie
September 8: Feast Cork, Cork
September 13-15: Cromane Seafest, Kerry
September 14-15: Chill Festival, Bangor
September 17-19: National Ploughing Championships, Laois
September 20-22: Taste of Kildare
September 21-22: Taste of Sligo
September 27-29: Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival
TBC: Dublin Veg Fest, Dublin
TBC: A Taste of West Cork, Cork
TBC: Yeast Meets West, Mayo
TBC: Sheridan’s Irish Food Festival, Meath
TBC: Oktoberfest, Belfast

October Food Events 2024

October 4-6: Dingle Food Festival, Kerry
October 7-13: Belfast Restaurant Week, Belfast
October 11-12: Portrush Beer Festival, Antrim
October 12-13: Taste AND at Clandeboy, Bangor
TBC: Food Retail & Hospitality Expo, Dublin
TBC: Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale, Cork
TBC: Applefest Abbeyleix, Laois
TBC: All-Ireland Chowder Festival, Cork
October 21-22: Food On The Edge, Galway
October 26-28: Savour Kilkenny Food Festival, Kilkenny

November Food Events 2024

Current Month

November

07novAll Day11Listowel Food Fair 2024

07nov(nov 7)1:00 pm10(nov 10)1:00 pmSamhain Festival of Food & Culture 2024Incorporating Sheridan's Irish Food Festival

30novAll Day21decYulefest Kilkenny 2024

December Food Events 2024

Current Month

December

30novAll Day21decYulefest Kilkenny 2024

14decAll Day15Monaghan Christmas Street Food FestivalBrought to you by Taste of Monaghan

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.