Take a food and drink journey around the Emerald Isle
No trip to Ireland would be complete without sampling and tasting its many culinary delights. We took a quick trip around the Emerald Isle to taste some of the best traditional Irish food and drink on offer, and here is what we found out.
Start your food and drink journey off in Dublin, you’ll see that this cosmopolitan city has become a mecca for flavours from all around the world! However, Dublin keeps its traditional Irish way in food and drink, most of which can be found in a cosy pub on any corner in the city. Oliver St John Gogartys (https://www.gogartys.ie/) offers the best beef and Guinness stew in Dublin, along with some of the best traditional Irish music. A trip to Dublin would of course not be complete without a visit to the Guinness Storehouse to taste the finest Guinness in Dublin and to see how it all began. Finish off your food and drink journey to Dublin with a visit to the Woollen Mills (https://thewoollenmills.com) to have the most popular Dublin dish there is, Coddle. This is a big bowl of bacon, sausages, onion and potato, honest and hearty, and very Dublin! Try the recipe here https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/304349/recipe/irish-coddle
Head out West on your food and drink journey along the Wild Atlantic Way to taste some of the best seafood in Europe! Here you will taste seafood fresh off the boats, Taste the traditional Irish famous salmon in Silgo at Clarkes Salmon Smokery (https://clarkes.ie/) Don’t miss out on the Wild Atlantic Cultural Tours in Co Mayo (https://wildatlanticculturaltours.weebly.com/) , where your guide will bring you along the coast in search of wild morsels, mussels and even seaweed!
Continue down along the Wild Atlantic Way to beautiful West Cork and visit the famous Clonakility Distillery and Visitor Experience (https://clonakiltydistillery.ie/the-distillery-experience), get a behind the scenes tour of a real working distillery and taste the best whiskey and gin that Cork has to offer.
Finish off your food and drink journey by heading along the south coast to the original Viking city of Waterford to taste the Waterford blaa, a soft white delicious bread roll that has a long connection with the city and county. Head to Walshs Bakehouse (https://walshsbakehouse.ie/) to try the best. The most traditional Irish way to eat one is a breakfast blaa. Rashers (or bacon outside of Ireland) along with some traditional Irish sausages, you could even have the contents of a full Irish fry in it! You could also try one of Irish people most popular blaa fillings, Tayto crisps!! (chips).
That’s it for our whistle stop food and drink journey around Ireland, stay tuned for more food journeys across the world!
Dublin’s Fair City
Head West for Seafood!
The home of Cork Whiskey
Waterford Blaa
That’s it for our whistle stop food and drink journey around Ireland, stay tuned for more food journeys across the world!
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Hi Dublinia Viking. I love your post, I think it puts our country in a great prospective. However, I think you should not forget to emphasize
ReplyDeleteour most popular drink..which is of course Guinness haha.
Must definitely give a try to sea food sometime soon..(not a big fan)
I have never tried a blaa with crisps, but dare I say it sounds fitting? I think the best way to try seafood is a chowder - it's one of my favorite dishes in the West. There's a place in Kinsale that does wonders with it: https://www.lemonleafcafe.ie/
ReplyDeleteWow! So many links in this post, thank u for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI got attracted to open this post because of the title picture! Guinness! I love Guinness - when i was travelling to Dublin, my uncle and i would have a tradition of our own - we would order a shot of Irish whisky drop it in our Guinness pints and then would have it! I don't suggest trying as a headache is a high possibility the next morning :p
Will be trying the whisky in the post, will share an updated comment on the tasting notes