The Ballymaloe Festival of Food will return to Cork from Friday 16 May to Sunday 18 May 2025.
The programme includes pop-ups, with Friday- and Saturday-night dinners, Sunday lunches and an afternoon tea, available to book now.
Friday night at the Ballymaloe Festival of Food features two different dinners, with the first coming from TV chef, podcast host and author Mark Moriarty cooking in the Woodshed Kitchen, alongside the founder of Portnoo Market Garden and a passionate advocate for chemical-free growing and sustainable food systems, Barrie Quinn (€95).
In Ballymaloe House, Fadi Kattan – the renowned Franco-Palestinian chef and hotelier, with restaurants in London, Toronto and Bethlehem – will cook for guests, along with sommelier and beverage designer Anna Patrowicz (€130).
On Saturday morning, the Garden Marquee Brunch will take place at 10.30am, hosted by Ballymaloe Foods (€30), and in the evening, the Woodshed Kitchen hosts James Ferguson and Alethea Palmer from their award-winning seventeenth-century pub and restaurant, the Kinneuchar Inn, in Fife, Scotland (€95).
There are two Sunday lunches on the final day of the festival, with local favourites Paul Flynn of the Tannery and Ivan Whelan of Ballymaloe cooking in the Woodshed Kitchen (€75) and Jeremy Lee, chef-proprietor of Soho’s iconic Quo Vadis since 2012, and one of the great exponents of classic British cooking, serving up lunch in Ballymaloe House (€80).
On Sunday afternoon, there will be a special Sunday afternoon tea in the Walled Garden Marquee, created by husband-and-wife team Henrietta Lovell – founder, CEO and tea lady of the Rare Tea Company – and Richard Hart – the celebrated baker and founder of Hart Bageri, originally in Copenhagen and now also in CDMX, Mexico (€75).
Set against the backdrop of Ballymaloe House and its unique complex of the Grainstore, the Big Shed, and the grounds and gardens, this year’s Ballymaloe Festival of Food will once again include cooking demonstrations, pop-up dinners, guided walks, talks, tastings and conversations, which aim to showcase the very best in modern Irish and international food.
The festival is proudly supported by Kerrygold, the Local Enterprise Office, Cork County Council, Fáilte Ireland, Bord Bia, Pure Cork, Ballymaloe Foods and Cully & Sully.
