Family Friendly Events
Children's Pizza Party Demo at the Marina Market
11-12, Wednesday 14 August, Marina Market
Learn how to stretch and top pizza with some of Oak Fire Pizza's chefs at the Marina Market. In this hands-on workshop kids will make their own pizza which will then be cooked for them to taste their amazing creations! Booking essential
Price: €15 (includes a pizza) Book Here
SOLD OUT: Pizza-Making 101
11.45pm-1.00pm, Thursday 15th August, Pompeii Pizza at Franciscan Well
Learn how to make pizza at home, using ingredients you can get in the supermarket. Participants will make their own dough & learn how to shape & top a pizza. Everyone will get a pizza on the day and you'll also bring home dough to practice at home. This is an ideal workshop for a family group.
SOLD OUT
Eat-In Cinema: Mama Mia at Marina Market
7pm-9.30, Wednesday 14th August, The Marina Market
Enjoy an Eat In Cinema experience with a movie screening of Mamma Mia and food at the Marina Market. Tickets include the cinema and a €15 Marina Market gift card so you can enjoy food from whichever vendor you like
Price: €20. Book Here
Hollyhill Community Garden Cork on a Fork Summer Festival
1-4pm, Thursday 15th August, Knocknaheeny, Hollyhill Community Garden (behind Apple Green garage)
Join Knocknaheeny Community Garden for a delightful day where you can pick fresh produce from the garden, enjoy live music and much more. This event is open to everyone. Come together to celebrate the spirit of community and the joy of gardening.
No pre-booking is required and the event is free of charge.
Hysterical Histories Dinner and Show at Amicus
7.00pm, Thursday 15th, Friday 16th & Saturday 16th August, Upstairs at Amicus Restaurant, Paul Street
Written and delivered by professional Irish actors, this jam-packed, laugh-out-loud dinner performance celebrates all things Cork. Over two hours, discover the highlights of Cork’s 1500-year history and become acquainted with a county full of quirky characters, their habits, humour, and language, while you enjoy local Cork food and drinks, live music and plenty of interaction with the actors. Leave with a belly full of food, a warm feeling in your heart and a new skill, having learned how to “speak Cork.” Located upstairs at Amicus, heart of the city’s historic Huguenot Quarter.
Price: €52 (adults), €32 (children under 12), kids under 2 go free). Use FORKFEST24 for €5 off adult tickets. Book here.
Sensory Cooking Class with the Cool Food School (3-7 years)
11.00am-12.00pm, Friday 16th August, St. Peter's
Join Deirdre Doyle from the award winning The Cool Food School for a fun, interactive pop-up cooking class for kids at St Peter's. Deirdre is a master at getting kids to have fun in the kitchen and promotes healthy eating in a fun and interactive way. From smelling to chopping to dancing and tasting, kids are sure to get lots out of these engaging cooking classes with simple, whole food recipes. In this class kids will learn to make lunchbox carrot cake powerballs.
Price: €15.00. Book here.
Children's Food Trail
11.30am - 1pm, Friday 16th August, Cork City Centre
Join this fun and fascinating food tour through Cork City Centre for Cork on a Fork Fest. Children (and accompanying adults if they wish) can sample bite-size child-friendly local food as they wander through the city. They will also hear fun and interesting facts about food and history in Cork. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Price: €18.00. Book here.
Make lunchbox carrot cake powerballs (7-12 years)
12.30pm - 1.30pm, Friday 16th August, St. Peter's
Join Deirdre Doyle from the award winning The Cool Food School for a fun, interactive pop-up cooking class for kids at St Peter's. Deirdre is a master at getting kids to have fun in the kitchen and promotes healthy eating in a fun and interactive way. From smelling to chopping to dancing and tasting, kids are sure to get lots out of these engaging cooking classes with simple, whole food recipes. In this class kids will learn to make lunchbox carrot cake powerballs.
Price: €15.00. Book here.
Bread, Butter and Beef at The Butter Museum
2.30pm-4.30pm, Friday 16th August, The Butter Museum, Shandon
The Butter Museum at Shandon is the place to be on Friday afternoon. There will be a number of demonstrations taking place outside the The Butter Museum including a demonstration on the making of traditional soda bread and butter, and a talk from local butcher James Nolan on corned beef. While you're there, make sure you visit the Cork Butter Museum, celebrating one of the great success stories of Ireland, the butter trade, thebuttermuseum.com.
No need to book.
Meet the Producers Family Bus Tour
9.30am-12.30pm, Saturday 17th August
Experience Cork's Food Culture on this 3-stop producers tour by bus. First you will visit a working dairy farm in Blarney, where you will see where the cows get milked, hear all about life as a farmer, and sample some cheese from a local cheesemaker. We will make a quick play stop to Blarney Woolen Mills playground. Next up you will visit an orchard, see bee hives for pollination and sample some delicious apple juice. Our last stop is to a Beekeeper, where you will hear all about beekeeping and taste their delicious honey with Cork cheese. Finally everyone will enjoy a Glenilen yoghurt on the way back to the final stop, The English Market, a haven for Cork producers.
Price: Adult €23, children (under the age of 16) €20. Book here.
Cork on a Fork Market & Cooking Demo Marquee
10am-5pm Saturday 17th August, 11am-5pm Sunday 18th August , Emmett Place
Get a taste of Cork's incredible produce and local businesses at the Cork on a Fork Food Market and Cooking Demo Marquee. There will also be live music and family fun including face painting and live music during the day. Sponsored by Failte Ireland, Ireland's Ancient East and the Wild Atlantic Way.
No booking required.
Food, Fun & Farm at the Cornmarket Street Market (Coal Quay)
11am-3pm Saturday 17th August, Coal Quay
Pop down to the Cornmarket Street (Coal Quay) Market, enjoy light bites on the street and everyone can have lots of fun with farm animals, facepainting and giant Jenga, connect four, corn hole, balance board games, colour catcher games, tug of war and more, with our Let’s Play Cork play leaders. Note: this is not supervised play and parents are responsible for children.
No need to book.
SOLD OUT: Pizza Party at Il Padrino
11am Saturday 17th August, Il Padrino
Kids will have lots of fun at this hands on pizza making demonstration at Il Padrino, serving the families of Cork for 24 years. Your little masterchefs will have the opportunity to roll their own fresh dough and put on toppings before enjoying their own creation. The price includes a drink and ice-cream.
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Play with your Food Lunch - food,farm & fun at Urban Mirror
1.30pm, Saturday 17th August, Urban Mirror Shared Table on Cornmarket Street
Enjoy a delicious outdoor light picnic at the new Urban Mirror sculptural table on Cornmarket Street. You’ll taste and hear about Cork produce as the Roughty Foodie at The English Market serves you up delicious bites. Rumleys Farm will also be there with their pop-up farm, and there will be a pop up play street with Let’s Play Cork. The Cornmarket Street Market will also be in full swing. Supported by TS Events.
Price: €10 Book here.
Picnic Tour of Glenbrook Farm
11am, Sunday 18th August, Glenbrook Farm Whites Cross, T23TC67
Enjoy a fascinating family-friendly tour and picnic at Glenbrook Farm with Brian McCarthy from Cork Rooftop Farm and Peter Twomey from Glenbrook Farm. Meet at Cork Rooftop Farm on Cornmarket Street, a positive example of the future of Irish horticulture, giving access to locally grown organic fresh food. You will then hop on a bus to visit Brian’s 60acre organic vegetable farm in Whites Cross, which aims to ‘feed’ Cork. Half an acre has been dedicated to growing many varieties of beans and Brian will share why this is beneficial for soil health and for healthy diets. Next you will meet Peter Twomey, owner of Glenbrook Farm, to hear about the free range pig enterprise he developed from a hobby. Finally, you will be dropped back to Cork’s Rooftop Farm where you take home some seeds to grow your own vegetables, and Glenillen yoghurts.
Price: €23 adults, €17 children (with bus from city) €20 adults, €15 children (no bus). Book here.
Cork on a Fork Food Market & Play Street
11.00am - 5.00pm, Sunday 18th August, Emmet Place (outside Crawford)
Get a taste of Cork's incredible produce and local businesses at the Cork on a Fork Food Market. There will also be live music and family fun during the day from 11am-4pm. A Cork City Council event, sponsored by Fáilte Ireland, Ireland's Ancient East and the Wild Atlantic Way.
Hanna's Afternoon Bee
2.30pm, Sunday 18th August, Perry Street
Indulge in a lip-licking honey-themed children's afternoon tea while learning about honeybees from a local award-winning beekeeper, Hanna from Hanna’s Bees. Hanna will talk about life as a beekeeper and guide you through the fascinating process of how honey is made, all the way from flower to the hive to the jar! Meet some of Hanna’s Native Irish Honey Bees up close and personal in a glass-walled hive, engage in charming bee-themed colouring activities, and discover how you can help our native bees and other pollinators. A Q&A session with Hanna will provide an opportunity to have all your bee and honey-related questions answered. Every child will also receive a small gift from Hanna’s Bees.
Price: €18 per child including gift. Parents can order from the menu. Book here.