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IF you’re sticking around town on All-Ireland Final weekend, the first ever Tralee Food Festival has more than enough to tickle your tastebuds from September 18-20.
The event will feature a Taste Trail, Craft Beer Trail, 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.
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Launching the Tralee Food Festival were, from left: Niall Harty (Caveman Food Company), Frank Hartnett (Kerry County Council), Jean Foley (Kerry County Council), Noel Keane (Consultant Chef), President of Tralee Chamber Alliance, John Drummey, Thomas O’Connor (Transition Kerry), Niamh Ní Goold (Transition Kerry), Kieran Ruttledge (Tralee Chamber Alliance) and Danny Leane, The Abbey Inn. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
“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,” said The CEO of Tralee Chamber Alliance, Kieran Ruttledge
The opening event of the Tralee Food Festival will feature a Guinness, Jazz and Seafood Banquet with Spa Seafoods at the Imperial Hotel on Denny Street, Tralee at 6pm on Culture Night, Friday, September 18.
The Tralee Food Festival Taste Trail will include 11 stops where delicious bites (at €2 each, see map below) will be available for the public to sample from 10am until late while a number of cooking demonstrations will be held in the Square from 12 noon on Saturday, September 19.
To celebrate the emergence of Craft Beers as the beverage of choice for many pub-goers, the Tralee Food Festival has created a Craft Beer Trail which will incorporate nine local hostelries in town.
An All-Ireland Final Sunday Brunch will be served at selected restaurants on September 20 in anticipation of Kerry’s appearance at Croke Park later that afternoon.
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.
Kieran Ruttledge thanked everyone who has played a role in developing the first ever Tralee Food Festival, in particular – Rural Food Skillnet, Kerry County Council, 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, 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 +353 66 7121472.
The Taste Trail and Craft Beer Trail during the Tralee Food Festival.
