Ballymaloe Fest is Back
Following its brilliant inaugural year, the Ballymaloe Festival of Food is back from Friday 16th May to Sunday 18th May 2025. The festival has announced its programme of pop-ups, with Friday and Saturday night dinners, Sunday lunches and a very special afternoon tea.
Friday night features two different dinners, with the first coming from TV chef, podcast host and author Mark Moriarty, cooking in the Woodshed Kitchen, alongside founder of Portnoo Market Garden and a passionate advocate for chemical-free growing and sustainable food systems, Barrie Quinn. In Ballymaloe House, Fadi Kattan, the renowned Franco-Palestinian chef and hotelier with restaurants in London, Toronto and Bethlehem, cooks for guests along with sommelier and beverage designer inspired by Palestinian flavours, Anna Patrowicz.
On Saturday morning there is a Garden Marquee Brunch at 10.30am hosted by Ballymaloe Foods, and in the evening, the Woodshed Kitchen hosts James Ferguson and Alethea Palmer from their award-winning 17th century pub and restaurant, the Kinneuchar Inn in Fife, Scotland.
There are duelling Sunday lunches on the final day of the festival, with local favourites Paul Flynn of The Tannery and Ivan Whelan of Ballymaloe cooking in the Woodshed Kitchen, and Jeremy Lee, chef-proprietor since 2012 of Soho’s Quo Vadis and one of the great exponents of classic British cooking, cooking lunch in Ballymaloe House.
Finally, on Sunday afternoon, there will be a special Sunday Afternoon Tea in the Walled Garden Marquee, created by husband and wife team Henrietta Lovell, founder, CEO and tea lady of the Rare Tea Company, and Richard Hart, baker, founder of Hart Bageri, originally in Copenhagen and now also in CDMX, Mexico.
Tickets for the pop-ups are on sale now, and the full programme will be available in March 2025.
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