Taste the Island Buyers Guide 2020

Month Dates Festival Name Description Location Website August 13-16 August 2020 The Big Grill Festival The festival celebrates the art of cooking with fire and smoke bringing chefs, cooks and pitmasters from Ireland, UK and further afield with over 20,000 visitors to smell, taste, discover and learn about all kinds of barbecuing, grilling, smoking, vegetables, meats, delicacies and drinks. Herbert Park Dublin 4 www.biggrillfestival.com August 28-30 August 2020 A Taste of Donegal Food Festival The Biggest and Best Foodie Event in the North West where taste buds are tantalised by 130 food exhibitors from Ireland and UK. Visitors are entertained by Celebrity Chiefs, master wine and beer classes, music and fieworks. Donegal Co. Donegal www.atasteofdonegal.com August 30th August - 6th September Feast Cork Feast Cork, based in the market town of Midleton with its rich food heritage is a festival that happens at harvest time – appropriately for a gathering up and bringing together of the best of what the area has to offer – Feast Cork is a fresh blend of conversations, dinners, markets, foraging, mixology, produce, producers, landscape, heritage and storytelling. Midleton, Co. Cork www.feastcork.ie September 4-6 September 2020 Waterford Harvest Festival Waterford Harvest Festival has grown and developed over the past decade into an event described by John McKenna (renowned Irish Food writer) as a “Benchmark Irish Food Festival”. The festival honours the food, producers and chefs of the region who makeWaterford a truly unique food destination. Waterford City, Waterford www.waterfordharvestfestival. com FEST IVALS & EVENTS 223