Posted February 10th 2011

If you’re conscious about supporting restaurants, hotels, pubs, food shops and cookery schools that are committed to using Irish, local and artisan food produce, then the Good Food Ireland website is one to keep an eye on. Founded in 2006, Good Food Ireland is an all-island Irish food tourism organisation that endorses and promotes these places that have shown a commitment to local produce and link the food producer, farmer and fisherman with the hospitality sector.

Log on this week to find out the best Valentine’s deals coming up from Good Food Ireland members, such as two nights’ bed and full Irish breakfast with one gourmet five-course dinner included, plus a bottle of prosecco, homemade cookies and chocolate dipped strawberries in your room on arrival, Eur159 per person from the Connemara Coast Hotel in Galway; a five-course meal for Eur39.95 in Brooks Hotel , Dublin followed by a romantic movie in the private cinema; or a four-course Valentine’s Day meal with a complimentary Rossini cocktail for GB£29 in The Cloth Ear at The Merchant Hotel, Belfast.

Good Food Ireland members promise a genuine Irish food experience so by choosing to spend your Valentine’s evening at one of these locations you can be guaranteed a night to remember.