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Six days we would pay for ourselves, with live availability, the real price, and the operator's own page beside ours.
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The days
Galway Food Tours walking tasting
Galway city · About 2 hours 30 minutes · from €85
Sheridans, the market, the bay's shellfish, with a guide who knows the growers. The fastest way to understand west of Ireland food.
Howth seafood and craft beer trail
Howth, County Dublin · About 3 hours · from €89
Thirty minutes out on the DART to a working fishing harbour, eating along the pier. The best half day in Dublin for anybody who came for the sea.
Aran Islands food and heritage day
Inishmore, County Galway · About 5 hours · from €95
The islands, the stone walls, and the food that came out of a place with no soil. Take the early ferry and the late one back.
Lough Neagh shoreline food and drink tour
County Antrim, from Belfast · About 4 hours · from £75
Northern Ireland's inland fishery, eels and all, with the smokers and growers. Dinner at Mourne Seafood in Belfast after.
Private oyster tour and tasting by the Flaggy Shore
New Quay, County Clare · About 2 hours · from €120 for two
Out to the beds with the people who grow them, then a tasting on the shore. Lunch at Linnane's at the end of the pier after.
Ballymaloe Cookery School day course
Shanagarry, East Cork · A full day · from €245
The hundred-acre farm that taught modern Ireland to cook. Day courses sell out months ahead. Book direct, because there is no reseller worth using.
Tables, not tours
The rooms that take direct reservations
Ballymaloe House
Shanagarry, County Cork
Reserve directAniar
Galway
Reserve directChapter One
Dublin
Reserve directLinnane's Lobster Bar
New Quay, County Clare
Reserve directMourne Seafood Bar
Belfast
Reserve directThe Oak Room at Adare Manor
Adare, County Limerick
Reserve direct
Not sure which day fits your route? Start with the dining guides, read the food travel guide for seasons and costs, or check the questions page. Back to the food hub.
Build the trip around it
Where we would stay for a food trip
Hayfield Manor
Cork City
Ten minutes from the English Market and inside striking distance of Ballymaloe and Kinsale.
€€€€ · rates last checked July 2026
Glenlo Abbey Hotel
County Galway
A base for Galway's restaurants and the Saturday market without sleeping in the noise.
€€€€ · rates last checked July 2026
BrookLodge & Macreddin Village
County Wicklow
The Strawberry Tree cooks wild and organic only. The one Irish dining room built around its own supply.
€€ · rates last checked July 2026
Castlemartyr Resort
East Cork
The room we book for Ballymaloe country. Twenty minutes from the cookery school and the same again from Midleton.
€€€€ · rates last checked July 2026
Perryville House
Kinsale, County Cork
The best-eating small town in Ireland, and everything worth booking is a walk from the door.
€€€ · rates last checked July 2026
Clontarf Castle Hotel
Dublin
A base for the Dublin dining rooms without paying city-centre rates, with a fast run into town.
€€€ · rates last checked July 2026
The weeks this fits inside
7 Days in Greater Dublin: The Definitive Itinerary
Four nights in Dublin, three in Wicklow. The base change at Day 5 is the trick most itineraries miss.
7 Quiet Days in the West
Two houses, no rush, seven days. The West held at the pace it actually keeps.
7 Days for the Second Trip
Three bases, no first-time beats, the Ireland the second trip is for.
Ask before you book
Not sure it is worth the day?
Tell me your dates and what you want out of the food side of the trip. I live here, I have eaten and drunk my way through all of it, and I will tell you plainly when something is not worth your day.