Try these Tasty Food Treks around Dublin This Autumn

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The Glyde Inn on the Irish Flavour Trail

Exploring Ireland rich food scene is a joyful experience any time of year.  This autumn, start your culinary trek around Dublin, where you can  visit a new urban dockside market, take a city-centre walking tour, escape to a country house estate or check out a sustainable farm, as you discover the authentic taste of contemporary Ireland.   

Smallholding and Honey Farm tour
Just a short drive from Dublin and close to  beautiful Bohernabreena Reservoir Park in the Dublin Mountains is Olly Nolan’s small farm, an inspiring testament to self-sufficiency. Renowned for the award-winning Olly’s Farm raw honey collected from his apiaries around Dublin and Wicklow, Nolan has recently opened his farm to visitors. At the monthly farm tour, walk the orchards, vegetable garden and livestock paddocks to see native Dexter cows, laying hens and pet goats, before enjoying a house tour and honey tasting. 
  
Whitestown House

Whitestown House and Estate
North of Dublin in Nual, the Keogh family has opened their historic home at the 122-acre Whitestown House and Estate. The  Pick and Cook tour invites visitors to harvest blackberries, apples and plums from the estate grounds and then gather in the Aga-warmed kitchen for Chef Kelly Keogh’s recipe demos and a hearty lunch, while The Dining Club offers a seven-course dining menu.  “The Darker Half” menu showcases estate-game like pheasant, duck or venison and seasonal vegetables homegrown or from neighbouring McNally Family Farm. 
  
Newbridge House & Farm

The Courtyard Kitchen at Newbridge House and Farm
Nearby in rural Fingal, The Courtyard Kitchen at Newbridge  launches this autumn. Filled with light from the adjacent 18th-century courtyard, the new demo kitchen is designed to host workshops, feasts and interactive cooking demonstrations from local food network Dublin Coast and Fields members amongst others. Another good reason to visit this beautifully preserved Georgian mansion and estate and its working farm with a family-friendly interactive Farmyard Discovery Trail. 

Ultimate Dublin Food Tour

Ultimate Dublin Food Tour
All The Food (ATF) and international food tour providers Devour Tours have teamed up for the Ultimate Dublin Food Tour, which takes you from 17th-century merchant mansions through to modern food truck heroes, with five food stops. Favorites along the way include Dublin Bay crab on toast and homemade Irish ice-creams.  The stops curated and regularly updated by eagle-eyed experts on Dublin’s fast-evolving food scene. 

Flavour Trails
At Flavour Trails, owner-operator Gráinne Lawlor pairs each sample dish of traditional Irish flavors with complementary local beers and ciders for their flagship Irish Food Trail. Meanwhile, Derek King of Experience Irish Whiskey has teamed up with Gráinne Mullins’s artisanal Grá Chocolates to offer a premium whiskey and chocolate pairing (bookable for private groups).


Walking food Tours

Walking Food Tours
there is something for every budget, with the introduction of a new luxury all-inclusive Taste & Tales private walking tour with owner-operator Kevin Adams. This complements their original pocket-friendly Food on Foot and Drinks on Foot public tours, with its unusual format that allows visitors choose which food and drink samples they purchase based on the guide’s recommendations. 


Boland Mills

Boland Mills
Stay tuned for an iconic new destination opening this fall along Dublin’s Docklands. Boland Mills opens in autumn 2024 as a food hub, featuring hip bars and restaurants, coffee shops and local food producer amidst a beautiful new space on this reimagined 19th century flour mill.

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