The Menu: Food news with Joe McNamee

Here’s what’s going on in the world of Irish food. 

SAVOUR KILKENNY

Any opportunity to return to Kilkenny is a special one for The Menu is most fond indeed of the Marble City and never more so than during the magical masticatory melee that is the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival (Oct 27-30) with over 30,000 hungry heads expected over the four-day extravaganza. Highlights include a return by the ever-popular Neven Maguire; a mushroom hunt at the School of Food led by the very lovely Bill O’Dea; the Medieval Food & Craft Village, and Foodoppi, a fusion of science and the nosebag.