Good Food Ireland Awards honour people and places for their commitment to using local Irish food
Good Food Ireland, for everyone who simply loves good local food held its annual awards ceremony in its member hotel The K-Club on Tuesday, September 22nd at 12 noon.
The lunchtime Irish artisan picnic reflected members’ continuous commitment to offering consumers a local food experience. Over 300 key representatives from the food and tourism sectors including chefs, restrauteurs, hoteliers, farmers, fishermen and food producers from the four corners of Ireland were in attendance. Guests of Honour speaking at the Awards included Trevor Sargent TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, with responsibility for Food and Horticulture and key guest Ian Walker, Skipper of the Green Dragon in the Volvo Ocean Race who attendance in recognition of Good Food Ireland’s voluntary efforts in travelling all over the world during the race to feed the crew and promote Irish food tourism.
“The objectives of the awards are to highlight places committed to local Irish food so that consumers can find out and make informed choices on where to go to eat out or stay. Good Food Ireland is the only all island organisation that brings together a club of like-minded, committed people across all sectors of the hospitality and food industry” says Margaret Jeffares, Managing Director, Good Food Ireland
We would like to thank all of the Media who have been amazing in covering the awards and all of our membership activities over the past year. It is with their encouraging support and the voluntary efforts of the Good Food Ireland Membership that our organisation can grow.
Congratulations to all of you who were nominated for awards and of course to all the winners.
Visit our Awards Area to view all the nominations and winners>>>
Hi Michael
Thank you sincerely to you and your team at the KClub, from our perspective it was an excellent day and everybody was impressed with the “Artisan Picnic” theme. The venue, the setting all added to make it all a great experience. Special thanks to David and Finbar for their efforts on the ground, and thanks to Finbar for cooking the beef fillets for our Brown Thomas showcase....the beef was perfect and was enjoyed by all present.
Anybody travelling to Waterford....give me a call.
We were obviously thrilled and humbled to win the overall award.
Its a great credit to you that your marketing went into overdrive and you got the word out there.
With so much publicity our bookings since the award have increased significantly.
We feel that the coverage will generate 10's of thousands of euros worth of business. It may not be generated online through your booking system but from phone calls and emails we know that it has happened because of Good Food Ireland.
We do love being a member of Good Food Ireland, as you get us out and about meeting like minded people and most importantly you get us out of our comfort zone.
We look forward to working with you over the next year.
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