The Menu: Kinsale Food Festival
The Menu is very much looking forward to the Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale, as he weaves in and out of the fray to judge the Transition Town 50-mile Meal. Now a global phenomenon, the transition town movement began in Kinsale, and this event is a fine example of citizens putting the ‘epicure’ back into ‘environment’. The long-running Kinsale Food Festival (Oct 11-13) sold-out weeks ago but Paul Flynn and Martin Shanahan, from RTÉ’s Surf n’Turf, return for a demo cook-off (Friday, Oct 11) at Acton’s Hotel, completely free. (www.transitiontownkinsale.org / www.kinsalerestaurants.com). And if he wasn’t swanning around Kinsale on a skite, The Menu would surely be up in Co Tipp, at Cloughtoberfest, a tiny boutique festival of gypsy jazz, craft beer tent and plenty of excellent eating options especially from the wonderful Sarah Baker, of Cloughjordan House. www.cloughtoberfest.com
