We know just how good Abernethy Butter is, but now it’s been recognised at the prestigious BBC Food and Farming Awards. The Dromara-based company was nominated by the public and was in the final three of hugely competitive Best Food Producer Award. This is the first time a producer from Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland has made it this far in this category.

Abernethy Butter is made using the creamiest milk from cows grazing on the lush green grass of the Lagan Valley. Its signature waxed paper packaging with the blue Abernethy crest graces the shelves of top-notch food stores like Selfridges of London and any chef worth his or her salt fights to get it on their tables. Heston Blumenthal even uses it in his Fat Duck Restaurant in Berkshire.

It can add the Food and Farming Award plaudit to a host of others including a 2 star Great Taste Award for their Butter and 2 1 star awards for their Butter Fudge. Allison Abernethy was also Runner-Up in this year’s Belfast Telegraph Businesswoman of the Year Awards.

Also making the final three at the Food and Farming Awards this year was St George’s Market in Belfast. It consistently makes the shortlist and we’re confident it will win the Best Food Market Category soon.

The BBC Food and Farming Awards are now in their 14th year. This year, the ceremony took place in Bristol and was hosted by Sheila Dillon, who presents BBC Radio Four’s The Food Programme. She was joined by the celebrity chef, Valentine Warner, who recently co-presented a special Northern Ireland edition of the Food Programme featuring great local producers.

 

We are delighted to announce that some local companies have been recognised in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards 2014. Watch this space to find out more. Please see below the general press release.

 

BBC Radio 4 has tonight (Thursday 1 May) announced the winners of the Food and Farming Awards 2014 at a ceremony held in Bristol.

Jamie Oliver presented the Cook of the Year Award to Tony Mulgrew, a school chef from Halifax, whose determination to produce the best food possible for his high school – which includes growing food in school – has attracted interest from around the world. And Best Street Food/Takeaway has been awarded to the Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company, which combines foraged seashore ingredients with fresh local seafood – all served from its mobile Beach Shacks.

Best Initiative in British Food was awarded to Feeding The 5,000, a charity which focuses on reducing food waste. Their inspiring projects include The Pig Idea and Gleaning Network.

Best Food Producer was Gigha Halibut, who specialise in sustainable Scottish Atlantic halibut; and Outstanding Farmer of the Year went to Neil Darwent from Frome, who set up Free Range Dairy, a farmer-led initiative to promote the value of milk from pasture.

Raymond Blanc, judge and award giver at the event, said: “I don’t think you’ll find a list that features more inspirational people than this one – an amazing school cook who is changing so many young lives through food, right through to a team of young campaigners who’ve helped people all over the world understand the problem of food waste. These awards have also uncovered so many stories of great tasting food… producers, farmers, markets and retailers… all of them have made me feel excited about food in the UK… it makes me want to travel around the country and visit them all!”

Celebrity chef Cyrus Todiwala was named Food Personality of the Year. The judges said: “Cyrus is as passionate about the catering industry as he is about curry. His approach to teaching and sharing his passion on and off the screen is undoubting … He epitomises what a celebrity chef should be.”

Tom Jaine, organiser of the Oxford Food Symposium and editor of The Good Food Guide, received the Derek Cooper Lifetime Achievement Award. The judges said: “Tom’s knowledge and experience and the ability to cross the boundaries of history, culture, and gastronomy take him well beyond the status of an ordinary food critic, as an intellectual committed to bringing debates about food to the centre of public attention.”

Derek Cooper, the founding presenter of the Food Programme and a member of the first judging panel in 2000, who passed away recently, was honoured at the ceremony.

For the first time in the 14-year history of the Awards, the line-up of finalists covered every part of the UK, and also broke the record for public response, with the highest number of entries ever being received.

Two special editions of The Food Programme showcasing the Awards can be heard on BBC Radio 4: The Food Programme, Sunday 4 May at 12.30pm and The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2014 on Monday 5 May at 3pm.

Full list of winners:

Best Local Food Retailer
Edge & Son Butcher (Wirral): A fifth generation butchers that places great emphasis on animal welfare, rare breeds and provenance. Rare among butchers these days Edge and Son have their own slaughterhouse, allowing them to work closely with farmers within a 25-mile radius of the shop. They also work with schools in the area, helping pupils to understand food production.

Cook of the Year
Tony Mulgrew (Halifax): Tony’s drive and determination to produce the best food possible at Ravenscliffe High School has led him to become a major figure in the Soil Association’s Food for Life Partnership and to become one of the founders of Incredible Edible Todmorden. His approach to school menus and growing food in schools has attracted interest from around the world.

Best Food Producer
Gigha Halibut (Scotland): Based on the Scottish island of Gigha, the team specialise in the artisan production of sustainable Scottish Atlantic halibut which is smoked to order using oak chips made from whisky barrels from the Kilchoman Distillery on Islay. A technique of rearing the fish in land-based tanks means wild stocks are protected and no antibiotics are required in the process.

Best Drinks Producer
Thornbridge (Derbyshire): Considered one of the pioneers of the UK’s craft beer movement, the Thornbridge brewery was originally based in the grounds of Thornbridge Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Its first beers went on sale in February 2005 and from developing IPA’s and blonde beers, they also added barrel aged editions.

Outstanding Farmer of the Year
Neil Darwent (Frome): Neil has been a dairy farmer since 1986 and set up Free Range Dairy in 2011, a UK farmer-led initiative to promote the value of milk from pasture, and has been building strategic partnerships with researchers and scientists to deliver new thinking and practical measures for dairy farmers.

Best Food Market
Aberystwyth Farmers Market (Aberystwyth): Launched in May 2000, the market has up to 30 stalls every first and third Saturday in the month. In 2010 the market was voted among the Top 10 Farmers’ Market in the UK by the Times – the only Welsh market to be included.

Best Street Food/Takeaway
The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company (Pembrokeshire): Aiming to celebrate the produce of the area, combining foraged seashore ingredients with fresh local seafood, the Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company has five mobile Beach Shacks offering signature local dishes.

Best Initiative in British Food
Feeding the 5,000 Food Waste Charity: All three campaigns – Feeding the 5,000, Gleaning Network and The Pig Idea – are about big ideas and big action to change the supply chain in favour of low-waste food production and consumption.

Food Personality of the Year
Cyrus Todiwala: the celebrity chef who is a passionate advocate of British produce, and committed to education and training. His recent work includes The Incredible Spice Men for BBC Two in 2013, and a book, Mr Todiwala’s Bombay: Recipes And Memories From India, published in October 2013.

Derek Cooper Lifetime Achievement Award
Tom Jaine, the organiser of the Oxford Food Symposium and editor of The Good Food Guide, whose work has contributed to increasing our knowledge of good practice in food, gastronomy and farming. Among his many achievements, Tom Jaine is also the author of four books; he has written for national newspapers; and presented The Food Programme on Radio 4. He was Editor of the annual Good Food Guide from 1989 to 1994. He owns Prospect Books, a micro-publisher focusing on the history, culture and ethnology of food.

BBC Radio Bristol Search for a Food Hero Award
Elizabeth Carruthers, Head of Redcliffe Children’s Centre. Elizabeth runs a food project for the Under 4s.

 

The following document provides you with an overview of the Expression of Interest process. Having read this document thoroughly, operators interested in providing the catering services are asked to formally register their interest by emailing DIIBTender@castlereagh.gov.uk by 12 noon on Friday 30^th May.

1. Background.

1. Castlereagh Borough Council is in the process of redeveloping its flagship leisure facility – Dundonald International Ice Bowl (DIIB). The Council recognises the need in taking such new opportunities forward that it is their responsibility where possible to reflect and support other cross cutting Government strategies such as Transforming Your Care, Sport Matters and Fit Futures. The redevelopment project has a number of key objectives which align it to the Council’s corporate position, all of which supports the need to develop a flagship facility which promotes health and wellbeing whilst working with partners to reduce health inequalities across the Borough and beyond. The Council is therefore considering options for new activities including health and wellbeing elements as part of the overall redevelopment of the facility. The Council is keen to explore tenancy/partnership opportunities at the facility.

2. Dundonald International Ice Bowl is owned and managed by Castlereagh Borough Council. Millions of visitors have passed through its doors to date and it has been one of the main leisure facilities and tourist attractions in Northern Ireland since its opening in 1986. The NI Tourist Board / DETI NI Visitor’s Survey 2010 rated Dundonald International Ice Bowl as the number one participating visitor attraction in Northern Ireland with 618,000 visitors; this was a higher footfall than the Giants Causeway Visitor Centre and the Ulster Museum. It repeated this success in 2011 with a footfall of over 601,000.

c. Dundonald International Ice Bowl is an important service provider in the local area and across the whole of the Province; it currently employs over 100 staff and is supported by a number of SMEs.

d. The Review of Public Administration will conclude on 1 April 2015, with the facility remaining within the enlarged joint Castlereagh & Lisburn council area. The new Council area will host a number and range of further facilities which may be considered for inclusion of a similar arrangement at a later stage.

e. The final design brief for the new facility is yet to be confirmed, however it is anticipated that the facility will include:

• An Olympic sized ice rink
• 24 lane of tenpin bowling
• An indoor softplay area
• A gymnasium
• A 12 court sports hall
• Entertainment and video arcade
• Catering and vending

f. It will also have other activities owned and operated by partners/tenants such as:

• Climbing wall and high ropes
• Offices for several sports’ governing bodies

g. The facility, which will be linked to a health and wellbeing ‘hub’ encompassing GP surgeries, pharmacy and muscular skeletal (rheumatology, physiotherapy and orthopaedics) etc will open in 2017.

 

h. Vending (soft drinks, snacks and coffee/tea etc) within the facility is currently operated in-house. The Council would wish to retain control of this operation but would be amenable to discussions regarding the proximity of such machines to the catering outlets.

 

2. Aim. Whilst the Council currently delivers catering in-house, as part of a value for money exercise, it is currently market testing the outsourcing of this service for the new facility. Therefore the aim of this document is to provide an overview of expectation and is in no form to be considered binding upon the Council.

 

3. Objectives. The Council has 4 prime objectives with regard to this exercise:

a. To provide a catering service which will complement the other facilities, tenants/partners and services contained within the building.

b. To provide a financial return on its capital investment in the facility.

c. To engage with the successful applicant at the earliest opportunity so as to influence the architectural design of the complex. The successful applicant will be expected to fit-out, equip and provide the catering services.

d. To appoint a tenant/partner capable of delivering a catering service to meet the needs of the facility, on behalf of the Council.

 

4. Need. The Council wishes to offer the following catering options within the new facility:

1. Quality Coffee/Tea and accompaniments.

• The Council foresees a demand for a quality coffee/tea ‘island style’ outlet in the main concourse and adjacent to the health hub which will cater for:
  • Waiting parents
  • Visitors to the health hub
  • The more health conscious customer

2. Healthy Food Options.

 

• The long debated dilemma of what children ‘want’ versus what the Council as a responsible body should be encouraging
• The Council supports healthy lifestyles and will soon have within the facility a gymnasium and major health hub
• An appropriate catering offering is deemed necessary

 

The following four categories below reflect what is currently served and it is anticipated these will be sustained in the new facility:

3. Walk In Fast Food.

 

• No advance notice
• Primarily fast food served and eaten in the café area
• Served all day; but peak periods being post school, evenings and weekends

 

4. Children’s Parties.

 

• Generally booked in advance and served following an activity within the Centre
• Primarily fast food served in a dedicated party room
• Occasional requests for healthy option menus
• Parents generally want to know the cost of adding catering when booking a party activity and therefore a number of fixed price menus has to date proved easier to co-ordinate
• Peak periods being Friday to Sunday

 

5. Functions.

• Requests to cater for larger functions in a function/conference room
• This can range from a 3 course sit down meal to finger buffet food
• No peak period identified

 

• With the addition of a 12 court sports hall to the facility, several sporting governing bodies have indicated that they would require catering when hosting sporting events

6. Tea/Coffee at meetings.

• Function/conference rooms are hired out to external groups who often request tea/coffee served with biscuits or scones pre/during/post meeting
• Peak periods being Monday to Friday office hours

 

• It is anticipated that the health hub will also wish to avail of the catering services on offer

The Council would be keen to see a catering service which promotes the use of local produce.

The Council currently operates a restaurant licence with alcoholic beverages being served as part of a substantial plated meal. It also serves alcohol at ‘closed’ corporate events. It is not anticipated that alcohol would be served in public areas, in other circumstances

5.Process. Whereas it is the Council’s preference to have one operator providing all of the catering services in the new facility, it recognises that some interested parties may wish to express their interest in specific elements. The process to be followed will be:

a. Expressions of Interest. Interested parties are asked to register their interest by emailing DIIBTender@castlereagh.gov.ukby12 noon on Friday 30^th May.

b. Interested parties who register an Expression of Interest, will be invited to a site inspection and powerpoint overview of the project, with Council Leisure Officers on either of the following dates:

Tuesday 3^rd June @ 1430 hrs

Thursday 5^th June @ 1030 hrs

This will take place at Dundonald International Ice Bowl. Please confirm your attendance and preferred date in your Expression of Interest email (paragraph 5a above).

c. Interested parties will then be given until 12 noon onFriday 25^th July 2014 to submit their commercial proposal / business plan, addressing the issues in Appendix A, and in sufficient detail to enable the Council to assess your submission using the scoring matrix at paragraph 6. This should be either emailed to: DIIBTender@castlereagh.gov.uk or hard copied posted to:

Jeremy Knox

DIIB Project Manager

Dundonald International Ice Bowl

111 Old Dundonald Road

Dundonald

BT16 1XT

• The Council cannot accept responsibility for postal or delivery delays.

• The Council does not bind itself to accept any Expression of Interest received.

d. Paper evaluation of the proposals.

e. Negotiations – if necessary.

f. Final evaluation.

g. Presentations to be given to the Leisure Park Board (LPB) – TBC.

h. Notification will follow consideration by the Leisure Park Board.

6.Scoring Matrix. The submissions will be evaluated by the following scoring matrix:

a. Commercial proposal/business plan 65%

b. Previous relevant experience 25%.

3. Design, appearance and image in keeping with the host facility 10%

7.Standing Costs. The successful applicant will be responsible for the following (list is not exhaustive):

a. Rates – if under lease

2. Public Liability Insurance – £5 million

2. Employers Liability Insurance – £10 million

2. PRS and PPL costs

2. Utility costs

2. Maintenance and repair of the demised areas and site curtilage.

2. Waste disposal

2. Service Charge

8. TUPE.

a. Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 and Service Provision Change (Protection of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006. Whilst a catering service is to continue to be provided at Dundonald International Ice Bowl, the Council is considering outsourcing as a means of delivering this service which would result in a change of employer for the Council catering staff located at Dundonald International Ice Bowl, therefore TUPE would apply.

b. At present 6 staff employed by Castlereagh Borough Council are assigned to catering at Dundonald International Ice Bowl under Leisure Services contracts of employment.

1. 1 x Catering Manager

2. 2 x Senior Cook

3. 1 x Cook

4. 2 x Catering Assistants

9.Area.

a.The main area under consideration for the catering will be on the ground floor within the main complex. To enable a planning application to proceed, an area of 308sqm has been assigned, inclusive of kitchen, stores and seated areas.

b. Appendix B gives the intended floor space available to the catering operator. The operator will have latitude to liaise with the Council re the positioning of offices or stores etc within this area.

c. It is anticipated that the Quality Coffee/Tea and accompaniments will be located in the main concourse, ground floor. The exact location will be determined in consultation with the successful applicant.

d. An additional ‘servery’ has been located on the first floor adjacent to the function suites. Due to the topography of the site and the building design, this can be accessed directly from ground level without the need to access lifts and enter the main concourse. It is anticipated that this servery will facilitate an operator wishing to bring in pre-prepared food when catering for a function, without the need to disrupt the general flow on the main kitchen. To enable a planning application to proceed, an area of 25sqm has been assigned. It should be noted that this area will not form part of the lease but will be available to service functions within the facility.

10. Agreement. A legal agreement will be drawn up by the Council’s solicitors and issued to the successful organisation. The term of the agreement will be negotiated.

11.Further Information.

a. Further information on the project can be obtained by contacting:

Jeremy Knox

DIIB Project Manager

Dundonald International Ice Bowl

111 Old Dundonald Road

Dundonald

BT16 1XT

jeremyknox@castlereagh.gov.uk

Tel No: 02890 809 101

12.Summary. The Council welcomes ideas and is open to suggestions regarding the proposed provision of these new facilities. It is not the Council’s intention to stipulate a fixed rent but rather will consider each submission on its own merit and how that meets the Councils’ objectives. Applicants must however state a suggested rent per square metre.

 

We are so excited to host the biggest Local Food and Drink Pavilion that Balmoral Show has EVER had! Just have a look at the exhibitors below!

You can also click here to print the Chef Timetable, and to find the mouth watering recipes!

Exhibitor List 2014

Armagh Cider Company

They pride themselves in delivering artisan and hand crafted apple products, from blossom to bottle!  All their products can be sampled at the show.

Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend

Find out about food and farming! Farms all over Northern Ireland will be opening their gates, visit our stand to find out your nearest participating farm.

Belfast Cookery School

The Belfast Cookery School is dedicated to helping those who want to share our passion for food and learn more about the way it should be prepared.

Bella Jo

Becoming a household favourite in Ireland for their unique relishes and chutneys.

 

Bite to Savour.com

Sign up for a year and get four seasonal boxes with local produce, visit our stand to find out more.

Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil

Come visit to try single variety cold pressed Rapeseed Oil & infusions

Broughgammon Farm

The Cole family do every delicious thing you can think of with tender goat kid meat, free- range Rose- Veal and seasonal game.

Bruces Hill

Award winning meat, their signature “Roundhouse Burger and Dexter Burger” will be available at the show.

Chocolate Memories

Chocolate memories will be providing this years shows with a beautiful range of chocolate displays.

Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt

Cows milk yoghurt in a variety of scrumptious flavours

Comber Earlies Growers Cooperative Society Limited

They grow, pack and market the delicious Comber Earlies Potatoes.

Comber Potato Company

Potatoes by the tonne- They eat, sleep and breathe spuds.

Cookstown

Visit their stand where you can taste their deliciously famous sizzling Cookstown Sausage and other scrumptious products.

Country Garden Herbs

50 varieties of Culinary herbs including Rosemary’s sages, Thymes, Mints, Oreganos Chives, Fennels, Dill, Corrianders and basils.

Country Kitchen

Avondale is home to Country Kitchen branded products. Its soups and side salads are well- known across Ireland.

Dale Farm

Northern Ireland’s leading dairy company Dale Farm will be showcasing its quality products from the cream of Northern Ireland’s dairy farms.

Deli Lites

One of Ireland’s best known Gourmet producers of hand held ready to eat convenience snacks.

DJs Juice and Cider

Tempted? Irish Craft Ciders are artisan ciders made by dj’s juice and cider outside Lisburn.

Eagle Restaurant Galgorm

The Eagle Bar and Grill at Galgorm Golf Club is perfect after doing 9 or 18 holes but utterly delicious enough to make a special trip.

Eleanor Craig’s Fudge

Specialise in the manufacturing, packaging and distribution of handmade crumbly fudge

Eva Paris

Hand made macarons made the true French classic way.

Flavour of Tyrone

They will be showcasing the best of local produce.

Flossie’s Fudge

Luxury handmade fudge made from fresh dairy products and fair-trade sugar.

Fluffy Meringue

Fluffy Meringue is a family run business which uses local produce, and specialises in handmade pavalovas and meringue nests.

Food Standards Agency

The Food Standards Agency is an independent government department for food safety and hygiene across the UK.

Food Stories

Also new to the show this year, come visit their stand to find out more!

Foodie Folk

Well hung meat, dry cure bacon, just caught fish, local farm veg, freshly baked bread & lovely deli stuff.

Food NI

Organisers of the Food Pavilion, and working to enhance the reputation of quality food and drink from Northern Ireland

Fosters Chocolates

Sweet creations using their chocolates and their best-seller honeycomb and nougat.

Genesis Crafty

Their range of products include scones, pancakes, rolls & baps, wheaten, sodas and cakes.

Glastry Farm Ice Cream

Producers and manufacturers of dessert ice-creams and sorbets on their farm at Kircubbin, on the Ards Peninsula of County Down.

Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organisations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. Come and visit their stand to see how they could help you.

Ground Espresso Bars

Voted one of the top 50 coffee bars in the UK. Visit them at the show to taste their award winning products.

Harnett’s Oils

Cold – pressed rapeseed and hemp oils. Infused oils and salad dressings.

Heatherlea

The Heatherlea is a busy and stylish food lovers delight based in Bangor. Come and see them at this years shows to try some of their freshly baked products.

Heavenly Tasty Organics

A range of healthy baby foods such as purees of Apple, pear, mango and carrot.

Hilden Brewery

Hilden can boast of being Ireland’s oldest independent brewery. Check out their Hand- crafted beers at the show.

Home Restaurant

The fantastic Home Restaurant on Wellington Place for fans of feel good food, with a great range of non-seafood, vegetarian and fish dishes.

Hovis Limited

Come and visit Hovis this year to try out some of their breads and bakery products.

Irwin’s Bakery

Home of the famous Irwin’s Nutty Krust, Muffins and traditional breads, they will also be showcasing their new Sandwich Skinnys range available in white and brown.

Joan Boyd Home Bakes

Want to taste the ultimate traybake this year? No better stand to visit than Joan Boyd Home Bakes.

Jolly Pies

They love to jolly up your face with pies. Check  them out at the show to taste their unique flavours such as haddock, cider and shallots.

Just Live a Little

They manufacture handmade granola products that come in a scrumptious range that everyone loves.

Kearney Blue Cheese

A truly spectacular blue cheese that has an amazing story. Don’t miss them at the show!

Keen Nut Butter

Keen Nut Butter makes crazy tasty nut butters such as Almond Cinnamon, Pecan Maple and any other nuts they can smoosh into yumminess.

Kilmegan Cider

For food lovers: Kilmegan “Real” Cider – Dry- Perfect with white meat,seafood,and pasta dishes.

Krazi Baker

Come see the dough mixed,pinned cut baked into Soda Bread Potato Apple and much more the smell and taste is amazing.

KookyCook

On Thursday, make sure you visit Kookycook in the Pavilion to taste the totally mouth watering handmade pesto!

Linen Hill Kitchen and Deli

An exciting new restaurant just opened in Banbridge. Visit their stand to find out more about this great new establishment.

Linwoods

Linwoods Super Foods obtain a variety of milled seeds, nuts and berries that provide a range of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.

Little Treats NI

Go and buy some home- made creations including spectacular cakes and cookies.

Long Meadow Cider

Longmeadow Cider has just been launched at the beginning of this year, consisting of a medium and sweet cider.

Lough Erne Resort

Visit their stand at this years shows to find out information on the fabulous golf and spa resort and if you’re in the right place at the right time you may even get a book signed from their wonderful chef Nevan Maguire.

Made With Love xo

Chutneys, Jams and fudges that are not to be missed at this years Balmoral show.

Mash Direct

They select older heritage varieties for flavour, steam cook, gently mash and prepare on the family farm with the taste and texture of homemade cooking.

Mourne Seafood Bar

The Mourne Seafood Bars are known the length and breadth of the country and beyond for serving no nonsense, affordable and delicious locally caught seafood.

Moy Park

They are the chicken people! Moy Park branded fresh, breaded and added value chicken products as well as retailer own label chicken products.

Mullins Ice Cream

They specialise in making home-made luxury ice cream, speciality ice cream cake desserts and sorbets for scoop parlours, retailers etc. Not one to miss at this years show!

Norr & Brown

Come and see their stand to see wonderful handmade selection of chocolates. Wow!

Northern Ireland Tourist Board

The Signature Kitchen is back! Supported by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board. We can’t wait to see what the chefs have to cook up! Focusing on Great Taste Award winners.

Noir Fine Foods

They care about quality and provenance just like us, so go visit their stand to pick up more information.

P. McCann and Sons

Fresh fruit, pure apple juice range and cider that are not to missed at this years show.

Pizzado

New to the show this year, frozen home- made pizza kits that are such a good idea.

Quails Fine Foods

Deli and online butcher service of foods that are entertaining at home.

Quinns Handmade Gelato

In 2011, the Quinn family began to make its own Italian-style Gelato, with more than forty fantastic flavours and they’ve added sorbets to the range.

Red Dog Artisan Foods

Sauces, Marinades,  Chili Jelly’s, Dry Rubs, Herb infused Sea Salts – ALL produced with local Irish sourced Ingredients!

SD Bell & Co. Tea and Coffee Specialists

S.D. Bell’s have been importing and processing the World’s finest teas and coffees in Belfast since 1887.

Soil Association Certification

A membership charity campaigning for planet-friendly organic food and farming. They believe in the connection between soil and food.

Tayto

Set deep in the heart of Ulster countryside is Tandragee Castle where Tayto have been making crisps and snacks since 1956.

TESCO

TESCO Sponsored Cookery Theatre in the middle of the NI Food Pavilion with dozens of local chefs cooking up a storm for the full three days!

The Big Lunch

The one day get-together for neighbours. Sign up for news about the event on Sunday 1 June 2014 at this years Balmoral show.

The Good Little Company

A little company with big plans and an even bigger mission. Visit them at this years show to obtain more literature.

The Open Bakery

Scrumptious range of freshly baked local products on offer at this years Balmoral show.

The Wild Hog

Love the smell of pork roasting on a spit? Come visit them at the 2014 Balmoral show.

Thompson Family Teas

A family- owned company who are passionate about tea, and have been since thier grandfather Robert first started blending over one hundred years ago.

Thyme & Co Gluten Free Bakery

Gluten – free and Wheat – free baking that was created to meet the demand of their local customers in their award winning cafe.

White’s

A wide range of hot and cold based breakfast cereals for all the family to enjoy. Come and see their wide range of products at this years show.

 

The Mourne Seafood Bars are known the length and breadth of the country and beyond for serving no nonsense, affordable and delicious locally caught seafood. With restaurants in Belfast, Dundrum Co. Down and our new location in Dublin we have the country covered!

The new Dublin restaurant is located on Charlotte Quay, right on the water’s edge, with beautiful views across the Grand Canal it makes for a majestic location both day and night. There is a fully licenced bar for those who just wish to enjoy a quiet drink or an aperitif, as well as large outside seated area. The restaurant itself will comfortably seat 50 guests with an additional raw bar with seating for 28 guests. There is a private bar and dining room which can host 40 guests. The restaurant location could not be more convenient – directly across from the Marker Hotel and the Bord Gáis Theatre, 5 mins walk from Pearse Street Dart Station, 15 mins walk to the Aviva Stadium, O2 Stadium, Connolly Station, the Convention Centre and town centre. Not to mention being only 5 mins drive from the Port Tunnel and 10 mins drive from the airport.

Millennium Tower, Charlotte Quay, Dublin

0035316688862

Dublin@mourneseafood.com

www.mourneseafood.com