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Nifty Map of Irish Food Festivals

Tourism site GoIreland.com have put together a handy map and guide to Irish food festivals, including this weekend’s Dublin Bay Prawn Festival. Click the image to get the large version with all the details. Related posts:Special offers and artisa…

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Nifty Map of Irish Food Festivals

Tourism site GoIreland.com have put together a handy map and guide to Irish food festivals, including this weekend’s Dublin Bay Prawn Festival. Click the image to get the large version with all the details. Related posts:Special offers and artisa…

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Yelp’s Backyard Bazaar – Dublin, 6 May 2012

We love food events here at CheapEats but have to admit that there isn’t often a whole lot at the cheap end of the spectrum. The likes of Taste of Dublin can be enjoyable but come with a fairly hefty price tag.  So we were pleasantly surprised a…

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Dine in Dublin Week, Spring 2012

Dine In Dublin Week is coming up soon: this biannual event takes place from Monday 26th March to Sunday 1st April and will happen again in October.  It’s organised by the Dublin City Business Improvement District and aims to showcase Dublin rest…

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Fundraiser with Bite of Life

I was in the delightful Bite of Life cafe on Patrick St this morning when I heard them telling some regulars about a fundraiser event – so I got the details to spread the word here, as it sounds just lovely. Bite of Life, DIT and the National Gal…

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Happy Pancake Tuesday!

Feck eating healthily today, for today is Pancake Tuesday! I made a vat of pancake batter last night (it’s best if it gets to sit overnight) to bring into work, where we’ll be cooking it up in our office kitchen with savoury fillings for lu…

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Come Dine With Me Ireland looking for hosts

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 cookin…

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Food & Wine Christmas Show: Review

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 ev…

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Food & Wine Christmas Show this Weekend

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 s…

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Cake Sale for Barnardos: Thanks!

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 vulnerabl…

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Sat 29th Oct: Cheapeats Cake Sale for Barnardos

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…

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2001st post! Recipe: Halloween tea brack

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 somethin…

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We need your baking! Cheapeats Cake Sale for Barnardos this weekend

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 char…

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Féasta Bia/ Atlantic Way food weekend

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 …

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Foodie Film event tonight in the Sugar Club with For Food’s Sake

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 e…

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Review: Dublin Bay Taste and Music Festival, August 26-28

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, fr…

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Theatre of Food at the Electric Picnic

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 …

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Flash Feast today in Dublin

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 F…

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Unique To Dublin Event, 1-3 July 2011

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 discou…

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Review: Bloom 2011

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…

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Bloom in the Park 2011

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 re…

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CrackBird: Last Chance

Here’s a few things you should know about CrackBird: It’s a pop-up restaurant that was set up for a period of 12 weeks only. The 12 weeks are about to end: its last sitting is at 10pm this Sunday, May 22nd. CrackBird serves fried chicken in…

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Pop-up Tea Party in Dublin on April 16th

My friend Ruth is organising Wafty B’s Tea Party: a lovely, once-off, pop-up, afternoon tea event in Dublin on Saturday April 16th. I have every faith that this will be completely delightful – I can’t say enough good things about Ruth…

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‘Crackbird’ pop-up restaurant starts next week

The people behind Jo’Burger in Rathmines have come up with a clever idea for a pop-up restaurant in Dublin city centre. They’ll be serving chicken dishes for 12 weeks at Crackbird, 19 Crane Lane in Temple Bar.  The chicken is being billed …

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Ken Hom cookery demonstration in Tesco Merrion

Ken Hom, one of the world’s leading Chinese chefs, will be in Tesco Merrion next Monday, January 31, from 4pm. He’ll be cooking up some delicious dishes in store for customers to sample. It’s a free event to mark Chinese New Year and …

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