A festival that happens at harvest time, gathering up and bringing together the best of what East Cork has to offer.
A young festival with old values
Since 2017, fEast Cork has stepped up onto the solid foundations created by the Midleton Food Festival over fifteen years before it, building a festival that reaches out from Midleton across the wider East Cork region.
Based in a market town with a rich food heritage, fEast is a food and drink festival with a sure sense of place, a celebration and showcase that mixes the old and the new, the traditional and the innovative.
A fresh blend of
everything East Cork
Hardworking, innovative food producers from all over a landscape defined by food production and food heritage.
Long tables, good company, and the people behind the plates. This is where the region's food stories are told.
Hedgerows and coastline explored with the people who know where the wild flavours grow.
From the town that put Irish whiskey back on the world map. Drinks with real provenance.
Old values and traditions carried into a young festival, with layers of authenticity and history in the community.
Midleton's market streets, Ballinrostig's farmland, and the seaside jewel of Ballycotton.
The ethos that travels the world
Jameson and Midleton Whiskey's meteoric rise all comes from the historic, handsome distillery in the heart of Midleton. Barley grown by East Cork farmers and East Cork river water helped put those whiskeys on the map, and Irish Distillers in turn help raise the profile of the producers of the entire region.
The ethos originally created by Myrtle Allen at Ballymaloe House and Cookery School has become a global force of nature, felt in the best kitchens from Sydney to San Francisco. East Cork resounds with a genuine celebration of the local, the seasonal, the real, and fEast magnifies those shared values in the most celebratory way.
Held in Midleton and the surrounding areas in the first week of September, fEast marks the beginning of the harvest season and attracts in excess of 30,000 visitors annually.
Taste the spirit of East Cork
A week of harvest celebrations from the 1st of September, culminating on Sunday the 6th. Food, drink and community, pure fEast Cork.