Famous Irish
foods & beverages

tips on Irish cuisine

 

Ireland's most famous
traditional specialties


Most celebrated dish

Irish Stew
Lamb (or mutton) is simmered with potatoes and onions.

Other renowned specialties
alphabetical

Banger
This sausage is similar to the English banger, but less seasoned.
Bacon and Cabbage
Those two ingredients are stewed together.
Barmbrack
Fruit-studded bread. Popular at teatime.
Boxty
The Irish potato pancake. Grated potatoes are mixed with mashed potatoes, then fried.
Calcannon
One-pot dish of boiled potatoes, cabbage and onions.
Champ
Mashed potatoes mixed with onions and doused with butter.
Coddle
A medley of bacon, pork sausages, and potatoes. A Dublin favorite.
Crubeens
Breaded, fried pigs' trotters.
Drisheen
Blood pudding sausage
Dublin Lawyer
Lobster with a whisky-and-cream sauce.
Farl
Pan-fried soda-leavened flatbread
Soda Bread
Round soda-leavened bread loaf etched with a cross on top.

Most famous meal

Irish Breakfast
An enormous meal simultaneously featuring eggs, bacon, pork sausage, black pudding, fried tomatoes, and more.

Best known beverages

Guiness Stout
The one brewed in Ireland is noticeably superior to a Guiness Stout brewed abroad.
Irish Whiskey
It differs from Scotch Whisky in two ways: It has a less pronounced smoky flavor - and it's spelled with an "e". Bushmill's and Jamison are the top two brands.
Tea
The Irish are great tea, not coffee drinkers.

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