Food Festivals
Cookery schools
Feast your eyes and taste buds on these
Whether you prefer hands-on participation
fabulous festivals and events, the perfect
or watching demonstrations by the experts,
ways to sample Northern Ireland’s
Northern Ireland’s cookery schools are
acclaimed gastronomic culture:
an entertaining and informative way to
discover the delights of Irish food. Create
• Apple Blossom Festival, County Armagh, May
some culinary delights at these cookery
Celebrate the beautiful apple blossom season with
schools in the heart of the countryside:
tours and festive events in the Orchard County.
• Belle Isle Castle and Cookery School,
• Festival of Fish and Seafood Trail,
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
County Down, August–September
Choose among a wide selection of cooking and wine
Seafood tasting, competitions and festive menus
courses, served up amid in the gorgeous Fermanagh
provide family fun in the four fishing villages of Kilkeel,
lakelands.
Annalong, Ardglass and Portavogie.
• Grange Lodge Cookery School, Dungannon,
• Hillsborough International Oyster Festival,
County Tyrone
County Down, August–September
Join Norah Brown, one of Rick Stein’s ‘Food Heroes’,
Held in the historic village of Hillsborough, the festival
in her kitchen at Grange Lodge and see first hand how
features local food and lighthearted events such as the
entertaining and family food are made easy.
World Oyster Eating Championship.
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