Taste the Island - A Celebration of Ireland's Food and Drink - 2019 Buyers Guide

Take a Cookery Class Dublin – Howth Castle Cookery School www.howthcastle.com/the-kitchen-in-the-castle T  +353 (0)1 839 6182 Discover the charms of Dublin’s living bay and explore one of the many coastal villages along its coastline such as the picturesque fishing village of Howth. Only a 25-minute journey from Dublin’s city centre, consider booking a cookery school experience with a difference at Howth Castle Cookery School. Have your clients cook up a storm in the beautifully restored Georgian kitchens of the Castle, before enjoying a private guided tour while their culinary masterpiece is cooking. Cooks Academy www.cooksacademy.com T  +353 (0)1 611 1667 Centrally located in the thriving and bustling heart of Dublin’s ‘Creative Quarter’ on SouthWilliam Street, the school offers a broad range of culinary programmes, short courses or 2.5 or 4 hour culinary hands on experience or wine course geared for both enthusiastic amateurs and aspiring culinary and hospitality professionals. Check out their course calendar or book a bespoke session for your group/client party, or have them consider joining one of their supper club/pop up restaurant events. All things IrishWhiskey Dip into Dublin’s Whiskey Distilleries, to get a flavour of the resurgence of IrishWhiskey and discover how it is now the fastest growing spirit category in the world and enjoy a tour and tasting: Jameson Distillery www.jamesonwhiskey.com/en-IE/visit-us/jameson-distillery-bow-st Teelings Distillery www.teelingwhiskey.com Dublin Liberties Distillery www.thedld.com Pearse Lyons Distillery www.pearselyonsdistillery.com Visit Ireland’s Whiskey Museum – Have your clients journey back through time at the IrishWhiskey Museum, located on Grafton Street, just opposite Trinity College Dublin. Learn the origins of Irish whiskey, its rise to glory and its dramatic fall and discover some new Irish whiskey brands. Enjoy the wonderful stories told by their entertaining guides as they bring your clients through the ages of Irish whiskey. Whiskey Tasting Tours of Dublin www.dublinwhiskeyexperience.ie Have your clients’ take a walk through Dublin’s rich pub heritage to sample some of Ireland’s finest whiskeys – visiting three historical pubs and sampling five tasting whiskeys over a two hour guided tour with whiskey connoisseur, Gareth Downey. Join a public tour from 4-6pm or book a bespoke tour for your group. Whiskey Island Private Tastings – where the whiskey comes to you www.whiskeyisland.ie/whiskey-tastings Ideal for our client groups who don’t have time to visit distilleries. Whiskey Island tours conduct tastings privately, at gatherings all over the country. Catering for any number of people, from multi- generational families visiting Ireland, to large-scale corporate events! Contact them to design a bespoke tasting for your client group. Visit an 19th century old flour mill Skerries Mills www.skerriesmills.ie T  +353 (0) 1 849 5208 Since the 12th century flour has been milled at this unique location. The fully restored complex brings to life the authentic workings of a five-sail windmill, a four-sail windmill, water mill and bakery of the 1800s. This provides the visitor with examples of how wind and water energies were harnessed by our ancestors. 164 SECT ION 15 – 24 HOUR CI TY FOOD & DRINK IMMERS ION