Eat, Drink And Be Merry…The Food Festival Is Here!

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Food glorious food! The second Tralee Food Festival is here again and we’re feeling peckish. Let’s see where the grub’s up…

1. The opening night…

Tidy Brogue 3Friday evening sees the event kick-off with a Guinness, Jazz and Seafood Banquet with Spa Seafoods at Kirby’s Brogue Inn at the bottom of the Rock (Street), Tralee at 6pm. It promises to be a mouth-watering opener, with the best of seafood taster Plates and Guinness for €5 each. No better place to head to after work this evening.

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2. Try out the special menus...

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Several restaurants are operating special menus during the festival where customers can enjoy three courses for under €20.

From smoked salmon rosettes, to roast Kerry lamb, to Ferrero Roche and mint cheescake, there’s amazing dishes all over town to enjoy.

The participating eateries have the menu options from Friday to Sunday. (click on the image to see the full menus)

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3. Hit the trail…

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There are 13 stops on the Taste Trail and at €2 a treat it’s worth stopping at as many as you can throughout Saturday.

Devilled eggs on soda bread, mini quiches and venison burgers are just some of the mouth-watering bites available all over town. (click on image for the stops)

4. Learn from the masters…

Cooking demonstrations will be held in the Square from 12pm on Saturday so get down to see Patricia McCarthy, the Tralee Culinary Gangsters and Odran Lucey of The Rose Hotel. The Square will also host an artisan food market all day with some lovely goodies.

5. Better wash all that food down…

The Craft Beer Trail will incorporate five local hostelries in town on the Saturday evening. Have an Uncle Jim Stout in Turner’s, go to Helles German Lager in The Blasket, a Cronin’s Cider awaits in An Teach Beag, you’ll pick up a Galway Hooker in The Abbey Inn before ‘walking’ to The Brogue for a pint of Peroni…or you could go the opposite way! (For the list of craft beers click on the Taste Trail menu above) 

6. Round it all off with Sunday brunch…

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Such was the success of last year’s Sunday Brunch, another late morning/early afternoon offering will be served at selected restaurants from 11am to 1pm.

Ardfert eggs benedict for €5.95 in the Brogue sounds intriguing, as does smoked salmon and free range egg frittata with tomato salad in tomato salad in The Ashe Hotel. It should complete a yummy weekend in the town. (click on image to see menu)

 

 

 

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