This weekend we launch the 11th year of Food Month at The Irish Times, which will continue until the end of November. You will find expanded coverage of food and drink at irishtimes.com and in the newspaper, as well as a programme of reader events, dinners and discussions running throughout the month.
On Friday, November 3rd, you can pick up a copy of our Winter Food & Drink magazine, distributed with the newspaper. The 52-page magazine will include an invaluable list of 100 Great Places to Eat, as well as interviews, recipes and food features. These will also be available online and you can keep up to date with all the latest Food Month news through our social media channels. Follow our dedicated food channels on Twitter/X, Facebook and Instgram and we’ll also be posting food content to our TikTok channel.
We are delighted to welcome chef, TV presenter and author Mark Moriarty as the new Irish Times recipe columnist, succeeding Gráinne O’Keefe, who pens her farewell column on Saturday after 12 months in the role. The first weekly column from Moriarty – whose first cookbook, Flavour: Everyday Food Made Exceptional, has just been published – will appear next Saturday, November 4th.
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We are also delighted to welcome back The K Club’s novice wine enthusiast competition, with a prize package worth €10,000 including a trip for two to Bordeaux, with a private visit to the Barton & Guestier Château Magnol, as well as time spent with the hotel’s head sommelier Lisa O’Doherty, and a gourmet break at The K Club. This will involve submitting a short essay describing a memorable moment shared over a bottle of wine. The entry page will go live tomorrow morning at irishtimes.com/competitions.
We have also released tickets for the first two reader events for Food Month, with more to come. Subscribers to The Irish Times Food and Drink Club had priority access to the Irish Beef Book and Waterford Whisky night in the private dining room at Hawksmoor with meat experts Pat Whelan and Peter Hannan and it sold out immediately. We have held back a few tickets for the Indian food and wine pairing dinner with wine writers John Wilson and Tom Doorley at Ruchii restaurant, and those have gone on sale today at irishtimes.com/events. Check in with irishtimes.com/food throughout the month for more Food Month news.
