I thought I would be missing the Electric Picnic this year due to a lack of funds and free time (I’m off on holidays to New! York! on Wednesday – I’d love to hear your NY restaurant tips). But then my awesome pal Jules offered me a plus one on her freebie day pass for Sunday. Best of both worlds: I got to go down and partake of some of the fun while still saving some cash and babysitter credits for my holiday.
One of the very many fantastic things about the Electric Picnic is of course the wide variety of high quality and interesting food. There is also a wide variety of overpriced rubbish. We lunched on delicious pies, mash and gravy (€8 each) from the justifiably reknowned PieMinister. Our dinner came from the Slow Food Tent – my sausage sandwich for €6 had a little too much bread and not quite enough sausage, but the sausage was very good indeed. Jules’ BLT for €7 was excellent, and came with about nine rashers – definitely the better choice. The DJ playing there on Sunday evening was excellent so we happily lingered. Some of the food tents are lovely destinations in their own right.
How was your Electric Picnic food experience? What was the most delicious, the best value and the biggest rip-off?
By the way, Conor Pope has a hilarious piece about ‘posh’ camping in the Irish Times today, in which he reports having spent €350 on food over the whole weekend, consuming an eye-watering number of burgers and pies.
Monday 6 September, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Go to Sushi Yasuda in New york! Best meal we have ever had. We booked a seat at the bar and asked for “omakase” (it’s up to you) and the head chef prepared the most amazing sushi that we wouldn’t have had the courage to pick ourselves. Very expensive but worth it.
As for EP, best food was def the pies and Slow Food, worst was €6 for an hour wait for a bacon bap.
Monday 6 September, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Pieminister, let’s get married. I was in Derry this weekend, a city where they’ve heard of pies. Pies are top of my wishlist for food options in Dublin – why oh why have we not warmed to them? I really really miss the pies in the South William.
Tuesday 7 September, 2010 at 9:54 am
you are able to buy the pieminister pies in the gourmet bank in churchtown so instead of going to the picnic i bought some of those instead not quite the same as being able to go but at least i had the food covered
Tuesday 7 September, 2010 at 10:28 am
Excellent, thanks Kat! I’ll hotfoot it down and buy me a pie. Wonder if they’ll freeze…
Wednesday 8 September, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I ate everything at Electric Picnic. Nachos from the Flying Cactus (vg), chips with garlic and cheese from Chunky Chips and Wicked Dips (vvg), veg fried rice from Wok N Roll (poor), plaice goujons from can’t remember (vvvg) and garlic chips from Eddie Rockets (vg). Also had some mash from Pie Minister (vvvg). Oh, and a pizza from some Italian place (vvvg). And I also saw some bands etc.
Sunday 21 November, 2010 at 9:14 am
pieminister pies are stocked in most superquinns now 🙂