Dingle Food Festival

Friday 3rd - Sun 5th October 2025

Welcome - Fáilte!

A Massive Thank You! We’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended and supported the Dingle Food Festival 2024! Your enthusiasm and participation made the event truly special. From the Taste Trail to the markets, the energy around town was incredible, and we couldn’t have done it without you. We hope you had a fantastic experience, and we look forward to welcoming you back next year! Míle buíochas!

Welcome to the Dingle Food Festival, set in the charming fishing town of Dingle on the Dingle Peninsula along the Wild Atlantic Way. Join us from Friday, October 3rd to Sunday, October 5th, 2024, for a celebration of flavours with a focus on zero waste. Organized by local volunteers on a non-profit basis, the festival features the popular Taste Trail, Market Stalls, Masterclasses, Workshops, Children's Events, Street Entertainment, Ceiliúradh Bídh Chorca Dhuibhne, and more. Celebrate food, community, and sustainability with us!

Bring your own bowl, rent a bowl or buy a bamboo bowl are the new changes to the 2024 Dingle Food Festival which is continuing its mission to be the first Irish “Zero Landfill Waste” festival and will take place from Friday 4th to Sunday the 6th of October in the West Kerry town. Included are in photo are in front, Gráinne Kelliher, (with her own bowl), Jamie Ó Flannura, (with a purchased bamboo bowl) and Aisling Conlon (with the €2 rental bowl) while at back are sustainable members Manuela DEi Grande, Niamh O'Kennedy, Darach Ó Murchú, Martin Bealin, Eileen Ashe and Trevis Gleason promoting the new sustainable changes at this years festival launch in Dingle this week. Taste trail and market outlets will only be serving food on to reusable tableware, with the main aim being to reduce the amount of disposable packaging over the weekend.
Photo: Don MacMonagle
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Once again this year, all festival goers are being encouraged to bring their own bowl - bear leat do babhla! For those who don’t, there will be stainless steel bowls available to rent for two euro (with five euro deposit). There will also be festival packs on sale consisting of a bamboo bowl and cutlery set. Taste trail and market outlets will only be serving food onto reusable tableware, with the main aim being to reduce the amount of disposable packaging over the weekend. Speaking at today’s launch, festival Chairperson Martin Bealin was highlighting the amount of waste festivals generate and the sustainable practices that the Dingle Food Festival are implementing to reduce this. “There will be approximately 150,000 tastings happening over the weekend, so getting rid of the disposable packaging will make a huge impact… it’s a big challenge for the Dingle Food Festival community but one we know will be embraced” he said.Other sustainable practices over the weekend will be HVO Generators - festival generators will be run on ethically sourced HVO for the weekend, providing the electricity for the market stalls. Less Paper - printed material moving online, with a smaller festival programme being printed.
Green Transport - working with Bus Éireann and The Local Link, providing more bus options to and from the peninsula over the weekend Sustainable practices workshops - workshops on how you can practice better sustainability including one specifically for children, delivered by Jennider Attard of MTU on “Limiting Food Waste” Micro Bio Digester manufacturer “MyGug” will set up a micro bio digester to convert all the unavoidable food waste, instantly into gas, which will be used to power the cookery demonstrations by local producers. Highlights of this year’s festival include the much loved Taste Trail, where festival goers purchase a book of taste tickets and get to sample food delights throughout the picturesque town. Numerous Food Masterclasses and workshops will be taking place including Pitmaster Barbeqing from Smokin Soul, Seafood Curing and Smoking with Burren Smokehouse, Sourdough Making, Cake Baking and Wine Tasting and much much more. Tickets for all masterclass and workshops can be purchased from dinglefood.com where full the line up and event details are also listed. Together with the Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards, market stalls, street entertainment, live music and kids activities, there really is something for everyone! Check out www.dinglefood.com
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Highlights of the 2024 Festival

Taste Trail

Street Markets

Masterclasses

Workshops

Children's Events

Street Entertainment

Ceiliúradh Bídh

Festival Fringe: Arts, Crafts. & Other Events

Sustainability

The 2024 Dingle Food Festival is continuing on its mission to be the first Irish “Zero Landfill Waste” festival. Taking place from Friday 4th to Sunday the 6th of October, the festival is expected to attract over 10,000 visitors with 150,000 food tastings on offer. Once again this year, all festival goers are being encouraged to bring their own bowl - bear leat do babhla! For those who don’t, there will be stainless steel bowls available to rent for two euro (with five euro deposit). There will also be festival packs on sale consisting of a bamboo bowl and cutlery set. Taste trail and market outlets will only be serving food onto reusable tableware, with the main aim being to reduce the amount of disposable packaging over the weekend.

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