Kilkenny chef, author, and founding member of the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival, Anne Neary has just launched Kilkenny Tasting Tours.
Disclaimer: I’ve been working with Anne over the past few weeks to get kilkennytastingtours.com together for online bookings, now live.
Kilkenny Tasting Tours is a new food-based walking tour of Kilkenny city, running Wednesday through Saturday.
![A stop at Gerry O'Brien's, a local Kilkenny butcher on Kilkenny Tasting Tours](https://kenonfood.com/media/2019/03/kilkenny-tasting-tours-2-1200x800.jpg)
There are daily tours scheduled for 10.30am with evening tours available on Thursdays and Fridays.
With Kilkenny crowned Ireland’s Foodie Destination for 2018, there’s a wealth of food producers to meet, their stories to hear and their goods to sample.
At the very least I know there are visits to Helen Costello’s The Cutting Vedge, with lunch and a local tipple served at Ireland’s oldest inn, The Hole in the Wall.
![A stop for chocolates at the Truffle Fairy](https://kenonfood.com/media/2019/03/kilkenny-tasting-tours-3-1200x800.jpg)
The remaining venues of the 2.5 hour tour are a mystery to me (at least until I get on a tour myself).
As far as food knowledge goes – there isn’t a food producer or maker in the county that Anne doesn’t know.
She’s published several books in recent years, continues to present a weekly cookery slot with us on KCLR and has been running the Ryeland House Cookery School for as long as memory serves.
Take a peek at kilkennytastingtours.com for the full lowdown, public tours now available for online bookings from Wednesday.
I’ll have a follow-up once I’ve taken a tour myself in a few weeks time.
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