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 [...]

It’s that time of year again. A trough full of pie, mash, and mushy peas can only mean one thing: Pieminister at Electric Picnic. But, amazingly, the pie is being overshadowed this year, and nosh is really coming to the forefront with the launch of The Theatre of Food. Demos, wine tasting, pop up dining, samples, [...]

A Flash Feast is taking place on the Milennium Bridge at 1pm today, so if you’re in the vicinity, get yourself down there and you may be one of the lucky 40 passers-by who will get a free lunch.   Hurry up! The event is kicking off the Street Feast festival – find out more on [...]

An event that aims to celebrate independent businesses in Dublin is taking place this weekend.  Unique to Dublin was organised by the Dublin City Business Improvement District and a range of independent businesses are offering special deals and discounts. Foodies can pick up special offers in Coppinger Row, Murphy’s Icecream, The Port House, Lolly & [...]

I wasn’t able to make it along to Bloom in the Park over the weekend, so my heavily pregnant sister Barbara kindly agreed to take my press pass and bring along her husband Keith and their little boy Dylan. Here’s her feedback. What was good about it? Lots of decent value options for food, and [...]

There’s no end of interesting distractions for the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend. Once again, Bloom in the Park, which kicks off today, is one of the big summer highlights. It’s a must-attend event for any foodies or gardeners. I’m really looking forward to checking out the new Bord Bia food village and the live cookery [...]