Exploring Ireland

Whether you’re coming to Ireland for a visit or live here already, here are some resources to help you find the best food the country has to offer.

Good grub and great pubs:

• Georgina Campbell’s Ireland
• Good Food Ireland
• BeoirFinder app – this free app tells you where to find craft beer in restaurants, pubs and breweries around Ireland
• John and Sally McKennas’ Guides
• A drinker’s guide to Dublin, New York Times, 7 June 2012
• Your guide to summer’s hot tables, The Irish Times, 2 June 2012
• 10 of the best gastropubs in Ireland, www.ireland.com, 10 January 2012
• What’s on the menu? Top Irish trips for foodies, The Irish Times, 20 August 2011
• Pitstops worth a detour, The Irish Times, 6 August 2011
• Pubs worth a detour, The Irish Times, 30 July 2011
• Belfast city guide, guest post by Meagan from Row House Nest on Design*Sponge, July 2011
• Salmon or beef? [about The Tannery, the O’Brien Chop House and Ballyvolane House in Waterford], Financial Times How to Spend It, 12 July 2011
• Great Drives Around Ireland — free app from The Irish Times, including suggestions for places to eat from John McKenna of the Bridgestone Guides
• Belfast’s top 10 budget eats, The Guardian, 7 July 2011
• Ireland: the 10 best pubs on the coast, The Guardian, 30 June 2011
• Budget Dublin: where to eat when hunger calls, Discover Ireland, 29 June 2011
• Belfast eats — eating and drinking in Titanic Town, Discover Ireland, 27 June 2011
• Microbreweries in the land of Guinness, The New York Times, 18 June 2011
• Foodies flock to culinary Cork, The Irish Times, 18 June 2011
• Finding modern Irish food in Dublin, BBC Travel with Lonely Planet, 8 June 2011
• Catching Donegal’s best pub grub, The Irish Times, 14 May 2011
• Round Ireland on our bellies, The Guardian, 26 June 2010
• Top 10 traditional pubs in Ireland, The Guardian, 23 October 2008
• Culinary delight in Ireland, Travel + Leisure, April 2008

Food trails:

• Belfast Bred
• Brewery Hops
• Cork’s Coastal Food Trails
• Cork Gourmet Trail
• Dingle Peninsula Food & Drink Trail
• Donegal Good Food Taverns
• Dublin Literary Pub Crawl
• Fabulous Food Trails
• Good Food Ireland Shannon Region Trail
• Historical Pub Walking Tours of Belfast
• Ireland Whiskey Trail
• Irish Food Tours
• Mayo’s Gourmet Greenway
• Taste of Kilkenny Food Trail
• West Cork Food

Other resources for finding good food:

• Ballymaloe Cookery School and Ballymaloe House
• Best in Season – what’s in season when in Ireland
• Bord Bia – the Irish Food Board
• Bord Bia’s countrywide Irish farmers’ markets list
• Country Choice – one of Ireland’s best-known food businesses, established in 1982 by Peter and Mary Ward
• Discover Ireland: Food – a listing of food trails, food festivals, cookery schools and more
• Greatfood.ie
• Grow It Yourself Ireland
• Irish Food Bloggers Association
• Slow Food Ireland
• Tipperary Food Producers

Accommodation:

• B&B Ireland
• Dream Ireland
• Imagine Ireland
• Ireland’s Blue Book
• Self-catering Ireland
• The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland 2011
• The Irish Landmark Trust

Irish food in the news:

• Darina Allen’s Ireland, Zester Daily, 5 June 2012
• Courses for courses (a round-up of cooking classes around Ireland), Irish Times, 14 April 2012
• Irish whiskey, an unfussy, constant companion, New York Times, 8 March 2012
• Kitchen tour: Irish culinary celeb Rachel Allen, The Kitchn, 10 January 2012
• When food is the local hero, The Irish Times, 23 July 2011
• Cork’s hidden village [about the English Market], RTÉ Radio 1, 16 July 2011
• Time to cut mustard with foodies abroad, The Irish Independent, 10 July 2011
• Flynn family favourites, The Irish Times, 25 June 2011
• Foodies bring home a taste of the Big Apple [about Fallon & Byrne], The Irish Independent, 26 June 2011
• Microbreweries in the land of Guinness, The New York Times, 18 June 2011
• The Mammy of Irish cookery, The Irish Independent, 18 June 2011
• Foodies flock to culinary Cork, The Irish Times, 18 June 2011
• Meet Ireland’s Rachel Ray — and a hot new global brand, Forbes, 16 June 2011
• When it comes to the crunch [about O’Donnells Crisps], The Irish Times, 10 June 2011
• Catherine Fulvio: land girl, The Irish Independent, 5 June 2011
• Mayo to go: a new foodie trail,The Irish Times, 4 June 2011
• The best ingredients in Europe? They’re probably Irish, The Atlantic, 23 May 2011
• True characters — cheesemonger Kevin Sheridan, The Irish Times, 21 May 2011
• Tried and tested: Favourite Irish food, The Telegraph, 13 May 2011