A new series of Come Dine With Me Ireland will soon be filmed by ITV, and they’re looking for people in Cork, Kerry, Leitrim/Sligo, Cavan/Monaghan and Tipperary to take part.  If you’re interested in appearing on tv to show off your cooking skills, your home’s tasteful interior and your grace under pressure, this is the [...]

I was hoping to head along to the Food & Wine Magazine Christmas Show this weekend but some last-minute work prevented me from going. So I asked my lovely friend and previous Cheapeats contributor Ruth to go along and send us her thoughts on the event.  Here’s what she had to say: ‘I’ll be an [...]

The annual Food & Wine Magazine Christmas Show takes place this weekend in Dublin’s RDS.  It’s aimed at foodies, funnily enough, with the main highlights of the show being the cookery demonstrations and masterclasses.  This year has some added drama in the form of a Masterchef cook-off so it should be fun.  There’s also restaurants [...]

A big, big thank you to everyone who helped out with our Cake Sale and everyone who came along to buy cake.  We had a delightful afternoon, there was SO MUCH delicious cake, and we raised over €300 for Barnardos and their crucial work with vulnerable children in Ireland. Some of the things we got [...]

Where: Upstairs in the Grand Social, 35 Liffey St, Dublin 1 When: 12pm till 3pm (or until treats run out!) Come along to the Grand Social on Saturday for the Cake Sale to support Barnardos, and have some fun at the Hapenny Flea. The Hapenny Flea Market runs from 11 till 5 and you can [...]

Halloween is about death, fun and cake. This weekend, Cheapeats – also known as Jean and I – are holding a cake sale in The Grand Social to raise money for children’s charity Barnardos. We’d love, love, love you to bake something for the sale and bring it along. Resident ireland am cook Catherine Leyden [...]

Barnardos are running a huge fundraising campaign this week – the RTÉ 2fm Dress Up for Barnardos -  to raise badly needed money for their valuable work.  We’ve thought up a way that we (and you!) can help.  We’re organising a charity cake sale this weekend in Dublin city centre, and are calling on food [...]

For readers in the west of Ireland: this weekend, there’s a series of events named “Féasta Bia”, which includes bespoke food trails, tasting sessions, local produce in restaurants and in local farmers’ markets, as well as food workshops for kids. Events take place in Limerick, Galway, Kerry and Clare. Lunches in Limerick’s Brasserie One, food [...]

The foodie group For Food’s Sake have been running food-themed evenings in Dublin’s Sugar Club for a while now. It’s always managed to clash with other plans for me, but I’m hoping to make it along for the movie screening this evening. It sounds great! Dublin Screening: Eat Drink Man Woman Thu 29 September; The [...]

Update, Sat 12 noon: Free entry before 4pm today and tomorrow, and just €5 after 4pm. Under-16′s free with an adult. Another event worth a look: the Dublin Bay Taste and Music Festival. This weekend in the People’s Park, Dun Laoghaire, from noon until 10pm. There’s cooking demos, music and entertainment, and a selection of [...]