Electric Picnic: Theatre of Food returns with Michelin star chefs, fish and chips experts and toasted sandwich champions
Demystify wine, drink in the history of beer, mix it up with the best cocktail makers around – or join the NoLo revolution with the island’s premium alcohol-free options
The apex of the culinary calendar that is Theatre of Food at Electric Picnic returns for the sixteenth time this year.
Get ready for a taste of the action as the Theatre of Food features a host of Ireland’s culinary extraordinaires, cooking and exhibiting across three stages, celebrating all things food, barbecue, and drinks.
Sunday morning’s feel-great Theatre of Food Brunch will return once more, this year in partnership with Aldi and raising money for Barnardos.
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In 2024, Theatre of Food welcomes Trisha Lewis and Aldi back to the main stage. Ireland's busiest foodie, Marcus O’Laoire will be joined on stage to match recipes with records with Kevin O’Donnell.
Michelin-starred chef JP McMahon will be cooking up some Irish classics alongside Graham Herterich aka the Cupcake Bloke, and TV chef Erica Drum will host Chimac from Dublin in a Cluck-off, a fried chicken battle for the ages.
Ireland’s hottest chef Aishling Moore teams up with food waste expert Conor Spacey to elevate your fish and chips at home, whilst internet sensation Garron Noone and Ireland’s original rockstar chef Kevin Thornton will pile in on our conversation about Irish snack culture, just one of the riveting conversations on the Foodhaus Podcast.
Cork’s reigning Toasted Sandwich Champions 51CornMarket return to take on their newest opponents Aran Bakery from Kilkenny. Kilkenny versus Cork? A grudge match for the decade!
Gisele Makinde and Jeeny Malteese will bring South American food to the Theatre of Food stage, whilst Ireland’s hottest pizza slinger Ryan Lally of Grá Pizza will showcase a pizza-making masterclass. Ivan Varian once again returns to the Theatre of Food stage alongside Daniel McCrea to baffle and bamboozle us all with the science of our sensory understanding of food.
In the Drinks Theatre, curated and presented by leading Irish drinks writer Aoife Carrigy, we take a deep dive into Irish drink culture and its amazing drinks producers, importers and promoters.
Kildare’s very own Judith and Susan Boyle will kick the weekend off with an EP Apertivo show while Kate Dempsey of Kinsale Mead Company and Mel Roddy of Gursha Ethiopian Restaurant will look at Honey Wine across centuries and continents. We will demystify wine with Bridey’s Wine Chats and The Long and Short of It podcast, and the Beer Ladies Podcast will trace the development of Irish beer culture, from medieval ale wives to modern styles and trends.
Come for some boozy seafood brunch bites with Valentia Island Vermouth, The Old Spot, Burren Smokehouse, Carlingford Oysters and Leslie Williams, and Oisin Davis author of Irish Kitchen Cocktails, will be throwing a madcap Punch Bowl Party alongside Kristin Jensen of Nine Bean Rows Books.
Polish Wine Fest and Vinifinesse will look at the surge in quality in Polish and Hungarian wines, Kinara Kitchen will take on Whelehans Wines in a cocktails versus wine food pairing challenge, and Majken Bech-Bailey and friends will look at the NoLo revolution and all things Kombucha.
Susan Boyle and Shamim de Brún will turn the Drinks Theatre into the Abbey Theatre, with a double bill of A Wine Goose Chase and Splitting the G, and Shannon Healey of the Collector, Jennie Moran of Luncheonette and Izzedeen Alkaraj of Cafe Izz will explore international coffee cultures with the United Nations of Coffee. Ireland’s leading authority on pints, Ali Dunworth, will be joined by Sian Conway and Shamin de Brún who will take our guests through a blind taste test on Irish crisps, with some beer involved, of course.
On the Theatre of Food Garden Stage, expect the best barbecue bites all weekend long from Smokin’ Soul Barbeque honchos Pat and Jim. Across the weekend guest chefs will deliver the most mouth-watering tastes, including Sham Hanifa, Best-Selling author of the new Blasta Book Agak-Agak; Ireland’s Chinese food champion Kwanghi Chan; Lily Ramirez, the ultimate authority on Mexican cuisine in Ireland, and there will be echt gaucho Argentinian delights from Killarney’s Tango Street Food.
The Garden Stage will have Filipino tastes from Alex O’Neil and Richie Castillo aka Bahay, and barbecue masterclasses from John Relihan of Pitt Bros and John Whelan of the Devils Menu. You won’t want to leave the Garden stage all weekend!
Theatre of Food is a FoodHaus production curated by Samuel McKenna, along with Aoife Carrigy, Smokin Soul, the McKennas Guides, and with support from Aldi and Diageo.
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