Comber Earlies Food Festival Local Chefs 2024

The annual Comber Earlies Food Festival is a wonderful day out filled with family fun, cookery demos in the Festival Kitchen and activities that celebrate the Comber Earlies potato which holds PGI Status, part of Taste Summer in Ards and North Down running 19 - 30 June.

Read more about about Comber Earlies Food Festival, returning to Comber Leisure Centre Car Park on Saturday 22 June, 11am - 5pm. Read more about Taste Summer in Ards and North Down.

Alongside Rachel Allen and Lotte Duncan, there will be a variety of local chefs wowing us with their culinary talents, including, Jim Mulholland from No. 14 The Georgian House, Comber and Gavin Murphy from The Old Inn, Crawfordsburn.

Gavin Murphy, Executive Chef at The Old Inn

Gavin joined the Galgorm Collection in June 2021. From working in a restaurant for a summer school where he discovered his love for cooking, to starting his career professionally in 1984, he has a wealth of experience from time spent in hospitality in London, Dublin, Mayo, Fermanagh, Cambridge and more recently County Down, Northern Ireland. Gavin’s midweek signature dish would be a traditional Irish Stew and recommends a fish dish of your choice for special occasions, you can’t go wrong with that!

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Try Gavin's recipe for Comber Earlies, Natural Smoked Cheddar, Sort Herbs, Double Cream and Dressed Summer Leaves at home.

Chef Jim Mulholland, head chef and proprietor No. 14 Georgian House

Jim Mulholland has found his home within the walls of the award-winning No. 14 Georgian House in Comber, his aim - to blend the old and new to tell the story of Ireland’s past along with its future. His ethos of creativity and culinary expression has led to an individual style that is both rare as it is highly sought after, It is local produce cooked well and given the Mulholland signature at the Michelin Guide awarded restaurant.

Find out more about No. 14 Georgian House, Comber

Try Jim's recipe for Kilkeel Turbot, langoustine, sea purslane, dundrum bay dulse butter sauce, comber earlies at home.

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