Have you checked out your local award-winner yet?
Everyone thinks their local restaurant or bakery or particular item of food is the best in their town/county/entire country, but there is very little way to actually prove which is the best, unless you take it upon yourself to travel to every town/country/entire country to check them all out.
Thankfully, the folks at Blas na hÉireann do exactly that, with the end result being the Irish Food Awards for 2020.
The goal of the awards is to celebrate and reward the very best tasting Irish food and drink products, and the passionate, driven producers who make them.
The Irish Food Awards announced the best Irish food outlets for each county in 2020, and they are as follows:
Armagh – Holmes Bakery
Antrim – Maud’s Ice-cream
Carlow – Sunshine Juice
Cavan – Lakeland Dairies
Clare – East Clare Apiaries
Cork – Kepak
Derry – Broighter Gold
Donegal – Donegal Rapeseed Oil
Down – Crawford’s Rock
Dublin – Bretzel
Fermanagh – Crust & Crumb
Galway – Loughnane’s
Kerry – Kennedy’s Butchers proudly supported by Kerry LEO
Kildare – Coghlan’s Bakery
Kilkenny – The Fig Tree Restaurant T&H Clarke Ltd
Laois – Cocoa Couture
Leitrim – Dromod Boxty
Limerick – Kearney’s Home Baking
Longford – Goodness Grains
Louth – Carlingford Oysters proudly supported by Louth LEO
Mayo – Little Cheesecake Shop
Meath – Royal County Puddings proudly supported by Meath LEO
Monaghan – Silverhill
Offaly – Wild Irish Foragers
Roscommon – Oliver Carty
Sligo – Clo’s Chocolates
Tipperary – The Scullery
Tyrone – Ispini Charcuterie
Waterford – Irish Gourmet Butter
Westmeath – Mr Crumb
Wexford – Scup Gelato
Wicklow – Rhoda Cocoa
Image via Instagram/@dromodboxty
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