The Menu: A festival of food and drink in West Waterford

And the Examiner food columnist lends his stamp of approval to An Post's celebration of homegrown hospitality

The West Waterford Festival of Food makes a welcome return to Dungarvan in June. Picture: Patrick Browne

Welcome return in Waterford

We all have different means of quantifying what constitutes a return to some class of post-pandemic normality but for The Menu, one of the greatest signifiers to date has been news of the impending return of the West Waterford Festival of Food (June 10-12). Traditionally the April “opener” to his annual culinary calendar of Irish food events as it has, over the years, provided him with well beyond his quota of food-related fun.