Tipp butcher steaks claim on food awards

A Tipperary food producer has taken the top prize in this year’s Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards while Dunnes Stores was named the top retailer of 2016.

Irish food and drink producers were honoured at the fourth awards during a ceremony hosted by Ballymaloe chef and cookery writer Rachel Allen at the Mansion House in Dublin last night.

Taking the top prize of the Gold Q was Clonmel’s James Whelan Butchers with its Dry Aged Angus Striploin Steak.