Eat the Streets Festival! 2023

Jewellery Making with Briana O Dotherty

Kids dance party that combines song, dance & play through engaging physical activity, imagination, and FUN! - Dancing to all the best foodie tunes with Carla Roberts

Design an outfit using a fashion croquis and waste materials with Lynn Haughton

Join our cooking skills workshop led by Fiona Uyema to learn to chop like a chef and earn your knife licence, while prepping delicious fresh veggies!

Due to the nature of this workshop all participants must be 7+.

Join Fiona Uyema for a cooking skills workshop on quick and delicious asian inspired dishes from Garden Grown Veg

Join Graham Herterich, The Cupcake Bloke as he leads a cooking skills workshop and takes you on an exploration of chemistry in the kitchen by making soda bread with a twist!

Oysome - founded by TTA Young Chef Ambassador & Botanical Cuisine grad Sarah Browne - shows how to shuck, store, and savour oysters with foraged flavours so that we can all enjoy some of Ireland's most sustainable seafood at home!

Discover the vibrant world of tie-dye at the “Tie Dye Workshop using Vegetable Inks” hosted by Lollipop Apparel. Dive into a creative journey as you learn the art of using natural vegetable inks to transform plain fabrics into kaleidoscopic masterpieces. Unleash your imagination and craft colorful memories in this unique hands-on experience.

Join GIY’s Mick Kelly as he leads a workshop called “Grow your own garlic to fix the future” for the Eat the Streets Festival.

Mick Kelly’s food growing journey started with garlic 20 years ago when he noticed some garlic he was about to buy was from China… it’s easy to be self-sufficient in garlic and this is the perfect time to plant it for next year, so join Mick for an inspiring and practical workshop on growing this wonder food yourself. Mick Kelly is founder of GIY, and presented the TV series Grow, Cook, Eat and Food Matters.”

Salads in the City

Salads are the perfect plants to grow in small spaces and what could be more rewarding than growing and picking your own fresh and nutritious salad leaves? Join Kitty Scully for a fun and informative hands-on workshop which is sure to motivate gardeners of all ages and experience.

Kitty Scully is an organic gardener and local food advocate who is well known from her days as head kitchen gardener in Airfield Estate . She is a natural communicator who regularly gives talks, lectures, teaches workshops and is co-presenter of the RTE horticultural show, 'Home Grown'. Her energy and enthusiasm for growing, learning and talking about all things nature based and edible is endless.

Join us for a conversation with young people, hosted by Kathleen Stokes, on Nourishing a Healthy Planet for the Future.

What are young people's experiences of the food system and their vision for the future.

Join Colm O'Regan as he discusses the circular food economy with Simon O'Rafferty, Tom Curran, Michelle Darmody and Norah Campbell

Join us for a conversation with those that have branched out beyond the kitchen with food!

We'll be exploring the experiences of James Burke from the Dublin Food Chain, Peader Rice of Small Changes, Roann Byrne chef and co-founder of Danú, Aoibhin McGarry Tik Tok content creator for Irish food businesses and Catriona Kenny co-founder of Community Roots.

Join us for a conversation with the original Eat the Streets chefs for what will be an insightful glimpse into what it means to be a chef, their experiences so far and what drives them forward.

Join Jean Wallace Foraging Walking Tour. This session you will learn how to forage and what to look out for as a beginner forager. We will explore and discuss the urban wild plants in the area that are edible, medicinal and linked to our national food heritage. We will discuss the poisonous look alikes if appropriate! All participants will be provided with an information sheet - this will include:
Common and seasonal plants to forage in an urban environment. Recipes for the wild plants available and herbal remedies.

Goldenbridge Cemetery is Ireland's first garden cemetery and was founded by ‘the Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell almost 200 years ago.

Visitors will be guided through this unspoilt cemetery and learn about its unique history, including the vaults, the armed guards, the Cuban bloodhounds, the body snatchers and the people buried in the historically significant and interesting graves within its walls.

You will hear the stories of two former Taoisigh and their family member Vol. Thomas Burke killed in action in the Easter Rebellion. A new stone has been erected over Eugene Lynch killed by in 1916, aged eight years. We will visit the resting place of a rebel priest of 1798 and Doctor Bob Kenny who befriended Parnell and James Joyce.

Please note, the tour through the Garden Cemetery takes place on uneven terrain and paths and we ask all visitors to wear sturdy footwear and please follow the guides instructions and directions at all times. This is an outdoor experience so please dress for all weathers. Whilst walking tours are a safe and enjoyable experience, in order to ensure social distancing, our group size is limited.

The Long Table Dinner is being held as part of Eat the Streets Festival. This 'Jeffersonian' dinner will be hosted in the beautiful newly-established production kitchen in the Spade Enterprise Centre on 15th September. The theme of the dinner is the Dublin Food Strategy ‘Eat the Streets’ and will feature many of the brilliant producers from the centre. Chef activist Seáneen Sullivan has created a four course feasting menu featuring produce from local farms, producers & allotments including local ginger beer from Zingibeer, bakes from No Messin', Brack from the Cupcake Bloke, sauces and dips from Zaria & Too Savage, and icecream from Dae.

The tradition of a Jeffersonian Dinner began at the home of Thomas Jefferson, the American statesman. Jefferson hosted all manner of thinkers and experts from a range of fields: arts, science, politics, philosophy (the influencers of the late 1800s!) to converse over a meal, mulling over weighty topics of the day. The idea was to listen, learn, and inspire meaningful dialogue around a particular topic as well as enjoy food and drink together.

The theme of this Jeffersonian dinner is the four pillars of the Dublin Food Strategy: Healthy Citizens, Healthy City; Growing Food at Home; Cooking & Creating; and Farm to Fork & Back. Each of the four courses of the dinner will contain a question sparking conversations about food waste, community growing, food sharing, innovation and the role of food in climate resilience.

Venue: SPADE Enterprise Centre, North King Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 CX22

Join us for around the table to chat about Nourishing a Healthy Planet For the Future (A Conversation with Young People) with our host Kathleen Stokes

Kathleen will be joined by young people from X and ECO-Unesco to talk about their ideas for a healthy planet!

Join Nicky Halliday and learn how to make a hedgerow ketchup with hawthorns, elderberry and blackberry. She will discuss the healing properties of these magical berries and how else we can use them for our food and health.

There's nothing quite as comforting as cradling a warm bowl of dhal especially as we head towards the colder months. It's a classic in our house and hopefully after this it'll be a classic in yours too.

Just when you think its meant for the compost heap, Chef Spacey challenges you to embrace your veggies for all they are worth

Join Chef Dan Keane In Making Three Deliscious Dishes. Damson, apple and goats cheese salad, Wild mushroom and nettle risotto and Seasonal Blackberry Eton Mess

Join Martynen and Lena in an exciting culinary adventure as they prepare a delicious Ukrainian feast! Together, they will be whipping up a hearty pot of Ukrainian Borsch, along with Vareniki stuffed with savory cabbage filling. Get ready for an immersive cooking experience filled with the rich flavors and traditions of Ukraine. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn, cook, and savor these iconic Ukrainian dishes