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Pictured at the launch of the Tralee Food Festival last week in Tralee Town Park were David Scott Tralee Food Festival , Kieran Ruttledge CEO Tralee Chamber Alliance , Cllr Terry O’Brien Mayor of Tralee and Patricia McCarthy, Chef. Photo By Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus
IT’S getting close now to a weekend of culinary delights around the town for the Tralee Food Festival.
The event, which returns after last year’s successful debut, will feature longer Taste and Craft Beer Trails, an Artisan Food Market, Cookery Demonstrations and a variety of menus at some of Tralee’s top food and beverage haunts including hotels, restaurants, bars and cafés.
The President of Tralee Chamber Alliance, John Drummey who launched the Festival with Mayor of Tralee Cllr Terry O’Brien, said: “The Tralee Food Festival will provide a platform from where the wider public will get to experience the wonderful taste of what Tralee has to offer. Having the Atlantic to the west and with some of the best pasture in Europe on our doorstep, Tralee can justly claim to produce the highest-quality, natural ingredients that others can only dream of. Our chefs and restaurants make the most of our produce and they are earning a world-wide reputation for their creativity and skill.”
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The opening event of the Tralee Food Festival will feature a Guinness, Jazz and Seafood Banquet with Spa Seafoods at Kirby’s Brogue Inn at the bottom of the Rock (Street), Tralee at 6pm on Friday 23rd September.
The Tralee Food Festival Taste Trail will include 13 locations where delicious bites will be available for the public to eat for only €2 each from 10am until late, while a number of cooking demonstrations will be held in the Square from 12pm on Saturday, September 24.
To celebrate the continued growth of Craft Beers as the beverage of choice for many pub-goers, the Tralee Food Festival has extended the Craft Beer Trail to incorporate five local hostelries in town.
Such was the success of last year’s Sunday Brunch, another late morning/early afternoon offering will be served at selected restaurants on the 25th September.
Festival Menus are now available from selected restaurants for the duration of the Festival and they can be seen or downloaded from the Tralee Food Festival Facebook Page.
John Drummey thanked everyone who has played a role in developing the first ever Tralee Food Festival, in particular – The Artisan Food Market vendors, the weekly Tralee Farmers Market vendors, Transition Kerry, Garvey’s Supervalu, Noel Keane, Culinary Arts Department of the Institute of Technology Tralee, Dingle Cookery School, Rural Food Skillnet, Kerry County Council, Kingdom Party Pals and the members of Tralee Chamber Alliance.
Full details of the Tralee Food Festival are available from Tralee.ie, Facebook.com/TraleeFoodFestival and Tralee Chamber Alliance on 066 7121472.
