The Menu: Feast for all at Kinsale Gourmet Festival

The Kinsale Gourmet Festival takes place from Friday October 12 to Sunday 14.

While it gladdens The Menu’s heart to see myriad new food festivals springing up annually celebrating our wonderful world-class produce and the talented souls who make it all possible, some of those strutting young pups would do well to look to the Kinsale Gourmet Festival (Oct 12-14) for lessons in longevity.

It was all of 36 years ago when the first KGF began in the impossibly picturesque little fishing town west of Cork, back before food was even invented and Kinsale was one of the few isolated Irish epicurean outposts.