Cheese, eel and ale among the winners in the 2023 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards.

The Irish Food Writers’ Guild celebrated 30 years of food awards with a ceremony and lunch held at Suesey Street, on Tuesday, 7th March. It was the first in-person awards presentation since 2020 and was attended by IFWG members, press and friends of the Guild.

Pictured: 2023 winners including Pat Close from Lough Neagh Fishermans Cooperative, Adrienne Heslin from West Kerry Brewery, Eoin Bird from The Wooded Pig, Mark Wright from Ballylisk Dairies, Gabriel Faherty from Aran Islands Goats Cheese, Aisling Flanagan from Velvet Cloud, Nicky Green (left) and Debbie Kelleher (right) from Down Syndrome Cork Field of Dreams.

For the full story on the 2023 awards, plus winners’ citations and recipes, click here.