Burren Slow Food Festival

Burren Slow Food Festival
16 - 24 May 2015
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Week 16th to 22nd May
PROGRAMME
EVENTS
✿ Meet the producer inof
the mornings
✿ Food & Family activity events in the afternoons
✿ Dining in restaurants in the Burren area
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✿ Cookery demos and talks with Michelin star
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at 12 noon
✿ Oyster demo & talk ✿ Talks & guided walks
✿ Farmers Market
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Afternoon Family Food Activity and
Evening Dining experience, all bookable,
organised by the Burren Food Trail and
leading up to the the Burren Slow Food
Festival weekend at Lisdoonvarna, which
will take place on 23 & 24 May 2015
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This year’s festival theme is Land & Sea,
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FOR MORE ON THE FOOD EVENTS EVERY DAY MEET THE PRODUCER,
AFTERNOON FAMILY FOOD ACTIVITY AND EVENING DINING EXPERIENCE VISIT
www.burren.ie/food-dining/burren-slow-food-festival
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
The Burren Slow Food Festival, 16TH – 24TH May 2015
FAMILY EVENT - Saturday 16th May
12 noon
• Bee keeping Talk & Demo
• Ballyvaughan Farmer’s Market
St John’s Hall, Ballyvaughan 10am – 2pm
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the Burren – this tour is an unforgettable
experience! Expect to spend between 2.5 and 3
hours on the water.
People Max 14, Min 2.
Cost: €50 pp, €45 for groups of 4 or more.
Family Friendly.
Booking Required: Patrick +353 85 119 5489 or
northclarekayaking@gmail.com
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FAMILY EVENT -Saturday 16th May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
FAMILY EVENT Saturday 16th May
Evening - ‘Dining Experience’
Farming For Conservation
in the Burren
LAUNCH of Burren
Slow Food Festival
at Ballyvaughan Farmer’s Market at
12 noon by IFA Michael Davoren
and Tina O’Dwyer, Burren Food Trail.
• Music and Tasting at each stall
• Seafood/ Meat/ Cheese
• Honey & Preserves
• Vegetable & Herb Growers
• Flowers & Plants
• Bakers
Ballyvaughan Farmers Market, St John’s Hall,
Ballyvaughan. 10am – 2pm
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FAMILY EVENT - Saturday 16th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
Wild Burren Tour with North
Clare Sea Kayaking
Magical. Exciting. Invigorating.
Stunning – An absolute blast” – are just some of
the fantastic comments from our delighted visitors
once they paddle our Wild Burren tour with us. By
far our most popular tour – we spend our time on
the water around the quaint village of
Ballyvaughan, with clear views into Galway City,
and in the shadow of the limestone mountains of
Forage for your Supper
Start the evening at Burren Fine Wine & Food
where Oonagh O’Dwyer, Wild Kitchen, will take
you on an exciting foraging walk. On your return
you will be treated to a feast of locally produced
home cooked food including your findings and
shellfish fresh from Galway Bay.
Booking recommended: Contact Cathleen:
+353 87 763 3241, info@burrenwine.ie
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FAMILY EVENT - Sunday 17th May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
A Sweet Fishy Treat
A Shoreline Foraging Trip
MEET producers Brid & Roger Fahy of Café
Linnalla. Start your morning at Café Linnalla with
ice-cream and coffee. Then it’s down to the water
to wade in the outgoing tide. See in the clear water
the native oysters, clams, mussels, razor fish and up
to 20 different type of seaweeds. Hear the story of
the local shellfish industry. Marvel at Vincent
Graham, Champion Oyster Opener, as he
showcases his craft on the shoreline. Finally, we’ll
walk with our donkey carrying our fish to Linnane’s
Lobster Bar for a bowl of fish chowder.
Time: 11am – 12.30 pm. Cost: €20 per person
Booking required: Brid & Roger Fahy,
info@linnalla.ie, +353 87 785 7589 or +353 87
618 3894. (Bring Wellies for wading in the tide!)
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FAMILY EVENT Sunday 17th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
Aillwee’s Woodland Survival
Demo & Flying Display
Learn Bushcraft survival skills and watch the
Birds of Prey in free flight.
The Woodland Craft Village is a hive of activity as
villagers share with and educate visitors on their
skills of wilderness survival and primitive living.
Learn about their skills at fire-lighting, wood
whittling and carving.
Watch and enjoy a flying display that will provide
the opportunity to see a selection of birds of prey
in dramatic free flight from Aillwee Mountain.
Time: 3pm-5pm Cost: €8pp.
Booking recommended: +353 65 7077036
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FAMILY EVENT Sunday 17th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
Burren Nature Sanctuary
Nature Walk & Burren Signature plate…
Sea spinach cream cheese and Kinvara smoked
salmon roulade with organic leaves and wild garlic
soda bread
Time: 2 – 5pm. Cost: €8pp
Booking recommended: +353 91 637444,
info@bns.ie
FAMILY EVENT Sunday 17th May
Evening - ‘Dining Experience’
Hylands Burren Hotel,
Ballyvaughan
Come and join us for an indoor / outdoor BBQ
with live music, Burren sourced local produce
and Suckling Pig on a spit. Fun for all the
family…culturally curious and hopeless romantics.
Time: 4.30-7.30pm
Cost: €20 pp
Booking recommended: +353 65 7077037,
info@hylandsburren.com
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SPECIAL EVENT Monday 18th May
Sustainable Transport
e-Whizz cycle Festival promotion.
Cost: €28 per electric bike or €20 per standard
bike per day from Lisdoonvarna.
Helmets and hi-viz jackets included.
Booking Required: +353 87 6277000,
info@e-whizz.com
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FAMILY EVENT Monday 18th May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
Bean to Bar Chocolate
Revolution
MEET producer Kasia Connolly of Hazel
Mountain Chocolates. Tour of Bean to Bar Shed
and Tasting Room at Hazel Mountain Chocolates.
See & learn how the chocolate is made, tasting
chocolate from different bean origins and
understand why it is the best chocolate you can eat!
Time: 1 pm. Cost: €12 per person,
Booking Required: +353 87 9903000,
info@hazelmountainchocolate.com
FAMILY EVENT Tuesday 19th May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
St. Tola Goat Farm
MEET producer Siobhán Ni Ghairbhith
Producers of multi-award winning St. Tola
Goat’s Cheese. , Inagh.
Time: 11- 1pm Booking Required:
+353 65 683 66 33, info@st-tola.ie
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FAMILY EVENT Tuesday 19th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
FAMILY EVENT Monday 18th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
Mountain Goats Cheese Walk
Marie McGauran guide in the Burren
National Park will give you history of her family
farming and follow trail to Melissa’s goat farm,
you can taste the milk and cheese. Visit the tea
house for some home-made bread and cheese
tasting. Walk lasts 3 hrs.
Time: 2 – 5pm. Meet at Clare Heritage
Centre Museum, Corofin.
Booking Required: +353 86 8219441,
info@mullaghmore-burren.com
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FAMILY EVENT Monday 18th May Evening - ‘Dining Experience’
Burren Beilini & All that Jazz!
Kilshanny House presents a relaxing evening of
music with the Paul O’Driscoll Jazz Trio
accompanied by our local light bites from land
and sea. Time: 8p.m.Tickets: €10
Booking recommended: +353 65 7071660,
or email us: kilshannyhouse@gmail.com
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SPECIAL EVENT Tuesday 19th May
Sustainable Transport
e-Whizz cycle Festival promotion.
Cost: €28 per electric bike or €20 per standard
bike per day from Lisdoonvarna. Helmets and hiviz jackets included. Booking Required: +353 87
6277000, info@e-whizz.com
Craft Smokehouse
Salmon & Trout
Burren Smokehouse offer you a talk and
presentation at their Lisdoonvarna
Information Centre & Shop
Time: 2-3pm
Booking Required: +353 65 707 4432,
info@burrensmokehouse.ie
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FAMILY EVENT Tuesday 19th May
Evening - ‘Dining Experience’
A Taste of Burren’s Finest
Food Series
Gregans Castle Hotel Restaurant,
Ballyvaughan offer a unique Tasting Menu,
including local grown and produced food…
wine pairing
Time: 6pm. Booking Required:
+353 65 707 7005,stay@gregans.ie
Sheedy’s Hotel & Restaurant,
Lisdoonvarna. Award-winning chef John Sheedy
prepares a tasting menu of the very finest of Burren
produce.
Time: 7pm Booking Required:
+353 65 707 4026, info@sheedys.com
FAMILY EVENT Wednesday 20th May
Sustainable Transport
e-Whizz cycle Festival promotion.
Cost: €28 per electric bike or €20 per standard bike
per day from Lisdoonvarna. Helmets and
hi-viz jackets included. Booking Required:
+353 87 6277000, info@e-whizz.com
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FAMILY EVENT Wednesday 20th May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
Tickle Your Tastebuds on a
Traditional Farm
MEET producers Stephen & Eva Hegarty of
Burren Free Range Pork Farm,
Kilfenora,
Visit a small traditional eco farm situated a
stone-throw from the well preserved Tullagh
earthen ringfort. Free range rare breed Saddleback
pigs graze the fields as well as cows, donkeys,
chickens and ducks. On the smallholding, no
chemicals are used and eco-friendly methods and
animal welfare are key. You will learn how farming
was done in the Iron Age era compared to today’s
way. A leisurely stroll to the Ringfort where you get
to imagine how people farmed and lived. A handful
of other remains of ringforts dotted around the
landscape nearby will be pointed out. Our former
neighbour, who was one of the forming members
of the Kilfenora Ceili Band is a beautiful stone ruin
now and is seen from the road. A tasting plate of
farm to fork produce to tickle the taste buds and
a nice cup of tea is included to the sounds of the
traditional Ceili music of Kilfenora Ceili Band.
Anybody who wants to shake a leg or stamp their
feet is welcome!
Time: 11 – 1pm Cost: €12 per person
Booking Required: +353 65 7088931 /
+353 86 8815974, burrenpork@gmail.com
(Wear Wellington boots for the genuine
experience!)
Some Events can be booked through Eventbrite,
CHECK: www.eventbrite.ie
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FAMILY EVENT Wednesday 20th May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
The Great Stalactite
Doolin Cave
Take an unforgettable and enjoyable guided tour to
the heart of Doolin Cave underneath the magical
Burren landscape. Visitors will be awestruck by
the magnificence of the Great Stalactite. Take your
journey from underground to above ground and
enjoy afternoon tea at our garden cafe and sample
the best of local produce.
Time: 2 – 4pm
Tour of the Cave: €10 per person
Afternoon Tea: €10 per person
Booking Required: +353 65 7075761,
tours@doolincave.ie
FAMILY EVENT Thursday 21st May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
Growing for Health – Designing
Your Edible Landscape
MEET producer Deborah Evers at Clareville
House Kitchen Garden
Deciding on what to grow to suit your taste and
to benefit your health. Burren Masterchef winner
2013 will get you to taste juices, sauces, jam, jelly
and relishes made from foods you can grow easily
or source locally. Then plan your edible garden.
Grower & Producer of Burren Kitchen Garden
Preserves.
Time: 11 – 1pm Cost: €10pp
Booking required: +353 86 8038477,
burrenkitchengarden@gmail.com
FAMILY EVENT Thursday 21st May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
FAMILY EVENT Friday 22nd May
Morning - ‘Meet the Producer’
Surf ’s Up in Fanore
Burren Gold Cheese at Aillwee
Take to the waves in the heart of The Burren for
an exhilarating dose of adventure with Aloha
Surf School and ‘Warm the Cockles – picnic on
the beach delivered by Vasco’ after surfing fun
with Aloha in Fanore.
Time: 2 – 5pm
Booking required: karen@vasco.ie or
+353 65 7076020
MEET producer Nuala Mulqueeny and watch
cow’s milk turn to cheese. Burren Gold is a
firm-textured, Gouda style farmhouse cheese with
a rich creamy taste and, as the name suggests, a
wonderful yellow-golden hue. It is made, in the
traditional way, at the Aillwee Farm Shop. The
cow’s milk used to make Burren Gold comes from a
neighbouring Friesian Dairy farm. The cows graze
on only unique nutrient rich grasses of The Burren.
Available in six different flavours – Plain, Garlic
& Nettle, Smoked, Black Pepper, Cumin and Piri
Piri – Burren Gold can be tasted every day at our
Farm Shop. Our cheesemaker, Diarmuid, along
with Raquel and Maggie will explain how Burren
Gold Cheese is made and will love to answer any
questions our visitors have.
Time: 11 – 1pm Cost: Free Event
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FAMILY EVENT Friday 22nd May
Afternoon - ‘Food & Family Activity Events’
FAMILY EVENT Thursday 21st May
Evenings - ‘Dining Experience’
Vasco Dine Wine Deli
& Eco Adventure
3 course meal featuring food gathered from the
wild & rugged Black Head coastline, Fanore
Time: 7pm
Booking Required: karen@vasco.ie or +353 65
7076020
The Great Burren Lunch &
History
At the Stonecutters Kitchen with John Simms,
‘history of food preservation in Ireland’; it will
include several methods of preservation including
smoking; salting and using the bogs for storage.
We will offer samples of food preserved with the
various methods discussed.
Time: 1 – 3pm Booking Required: +353 65 707
5962, stonecutterskitchen@eircom.net
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FAMILY EVENT Friday 22nd May
Evening - ‘Dining Experience’
Taste of the Wild Atlantic
Presented by Hotel Doolin
Wild & foraged menu based on all items growing
or caught naturally in the Burren & coastal area.
Time: 7pm Booking Required: +353 65 7074111,
info@hoteldoolin.ie
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
- Saturday 23rd May
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
- Sunday 24th May
(events are still being finalised and times
(events are still being finalised and times
are subject to change)
All Day Tasting – Burren Smoked Irish Organic
Salmon in the Burren Smokehouse Visitor Centre.
11am – 4pm Clare Farmers Market
featuring everything to do with cooking, artisan
products and produce from the area. There will also be
a Café with delicious baked goods and coffee/tea to be
enjoyed. The savoury side of it will be available as well
with barbecued delicacies and much more.
12pm Opening of the Festival – John McKenna
from Guides.ie will be opening the festival with a
short talk. John and his wife Sally have had an
immense influence on the food scene in Ireland not
only with their guide books and online guide. He has
won numerous awards for his food writing, including
a series of Glenfiddich Awards, the Andre Simon Special Award and the Slow Food Ireland Media Award.
A long-time writer for the Irish Times, contributor to
RTE television and news programmes, John also has
written for various international publications,
including The Art of Eating. He is regarded as a
leading commentator on Irish food.
12.30pm Cookery Demo – by Adrian Martin. Young
celebrity chef Adrian Martin will be giving a cookery
demo in our show kitchen. He has made regular
appearances as a chef on TV3’s “Late Lunch” show as
you can see here.
1pm Demo – “Bean to Bar Chocolate
Revolution with Hazel Mountain
Chocolate” Kasha Connolly from Hazel Mountain
Chocolate will show you how a cocoa bean is transformed into chocolate.
1.30pm Talk & Demo – “The Food Producer, The
Butcher, The Chef“. Donal Monaghan from
Gleninagh Buren Lamb, JP McMahon from Anair
(Galway), Neil Hawes Crafts Butcher in Lisdoonvarna
will talk about farming, demonstrate how to get the
best cuts and what to do with the meat.
1.45pm Book Launch – details to be announced
3pm Talk, Demo & Tasting – “All things
Oysters“. Thomas Galvin from Moyasta Oysters will
be giving a talk together with Richard Donnelly from
BIM (Bord Iasca Mhara) which will also include a
tasting!
4pm Talk – more to be announced later
7pm Burren Slow Food Banquet – Gleninagh
Burren Lamb on a Spit by Kieran’s Kitchen’s chef
Vivian Kelly
All Day Tasting – Burren Smoked Irish Organic
Salmon in the Burren Smokehouse Visitor Centre.
11am – 4pm Clare Farmers Market
featuring everything to do with cooking, artisan
products and produce from the area. There will also be
a Café with delicious baked goods and coffee/tea to be
enjoyed. The savoury side of it will be available as well
with barbecued delicacies and much more.
12pm Talk – “Creative Gardening with a Menu in
Mind”
Join Kitty Scully for a fun and informative session on
growing seasonal garden delights successfully. Kitty
will talk about her role as Head Kitchen Gardener
in Airfield House in Dundrum and the joys and
tribulations of managing a 3 acre food garden that
has over 100,00 visitors annually and supplies a busy
restaurant. Airfield’s Food Garden is not solely about
production as it is also endeavours to show case the
range of crops that grow in Ireland while looking
pretty as well. Best known for her RTÉ 1 series ‘How
to Create a Garden’, Kitty also writes a weekly
vegetable gardening and foraging column for the Irish
Examiner. In 2009, gaelic speaking Kitty contributed
to TG4’s gardening programme, ‘An Garraí Glas’, and
in 2010 she visited community gardens around Ireland, co-presenting RTÉ’s ‘Corrigan Cooks Naturally’.
1pm Demo – “How to source seasonal local food”
are subject to change)
Cillian Murphy is the owner of Murphy Black’s
Pub in Kilkee. He is also the chairman of Loop
Head Tourism, which is a very recent initiative that
surprised everybody by winning the Irish Times
top holiday destinatins award. Cillian will be
showcasing what he does, and how he sources his
seasonal foods locally.
2pm Inspirational Talk – by John McKenna
from guides.ie will be talking about the Snail of
Approval.
3pm Cookery Demo – Derry Clarke from
Michelin star restaunt L’Ecrivain, Dublin explains
seafood presented by Burren Seafood, Newquay.
Oysters, lobster, mussel, and Burren Smokehouse
Irish Organic Salmon will be on the “menu”.
JP Mc Mahon
Ross Lewis
DeRRy CLaRke
Burren Slow Food Festival
16 - 24 May 2015
th
th
Week 16th to 22nd May
✿ Meet the producer in the mornings
✿ Food & Family activity events in the afternoons
✿ Dining in restaurants in the Burren area
WeekenD 23th to 24th May
✿ Cookery demos and talks with Michelin star
chefs & many more
✿ Oyster demo & talk ✿ Talks & guided walks
✿ Farmers Market
✿ Burren Slow Food Banquet with Admission
€5.00
Gleninagh lamb on a spit
u/18 FREE
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