Joe McNamee: The Munchies are back — here are my food highlights of 2025

Joe McNamee's annual food accolades, The Munchies, return once more, in which he rounds up his food highlights of the year. (Part II next week)

Fahmeda Naheed, Farahnaz Haidary, Chef Orla McAndrew, Phumie Nkosi Casserly, and Nadija Sedigi enjoying Breaking Bread: A Cultural Connection at St. Peter’s as part of Cork on a Fork Festival. Picture: Joleen Cronin.

Food Emporium of the Year

I have written before of my great love for Limerick’s Milk Market, unquestionably the finest farmer’s market in the land, a superb range of stallholders trading in a magnificent setting, alongside those in fixed premises running along the side of the market.