Rua, Castlebar, wins prestigious Good Food Ireland Award ^Featured

Over 300 guests including hoteliers, restaurateurs, farmers, food producers and fishermen as well as key dignitaries were in attendance.

Speaking at the awards ceremony Margaret Jeffares, Managing Director, Good Food Ireland applauded the award winners and the Good Food Ireland network of businesses for their continuous commitment to the purchasing of local food. “It is only through serving our customers and international visitors to Ireland the food of our country and by telling them the story behind it that we can become a unique  food tourism destination”.

The Good Food Ireland Supreme Award sponsored by Kerrygold went to Source Sligo.  Some other winners included Glenilen Farm, Cork for best Food Producer , The Cliff House Hotel in Waterford for Culinary Hotel, The Chocolate Garden, Co Carlow for “Come and See” Food Producer , Sheelin Tea Shop in Enniskillen for best Café, Chapter One in Dublin for best restaurant, The Oarsman in Carrick-on-Shannon best Food Pub, Rua in Castlebar for best Local Food Shop and Aldridge Lodge in Duncannon, Co Wexford for Culinary Haven.

The “Come and See” Producer of the Year is an award given to food producers, farmers or fishermen who have welcome the public. We live in a world of dramatic disjoint. To open up, reveal, explain, is a real gift, education in its raw state. The Chocolate Garden is a producer who generously realises this.

For further information on the Good Food Ireland Conference and Awards please visit www.goodfoodireland.ie