Bloodied steak sandwiches, frightfully fiery soup and other ghoulishly good food will be on the menu when Derry’s Waterloo Place is transformed into Hell’s Kitchen during the city’s upcoming Hallowe’en celebrations.
Some of the North West’s most spooktacular street vendors will be cooking up terrifyingly tasty bites from 12 noon until 8.30pm on Friday-Sunday, 28-10, and to 10.00pm on Hallowe’en Night, Monday, 31 October, when Hell’s Kitchen will stay open that bit later to feed famished festival foodies.
Local celebrity chef Emmett McCourt will be among traders and revellers getting into the spirit of the celebrations by donning a special costume and, his Irish Food Heritage truck will also be getting a Hallowe’en makeover for the event coinciding with October’s Harvest theme during Northern Ireland Year of Food and Drink 2016, supported by Derry City and Strabane District Council.
Mary Blake, Tourism Development Manager with Derry City and Strabane District Council – organisers of the Hallowe’en festivities, said Hell’s Kitchen would cast a culinary spell on foodies keen to get their teeth into the city’s 30th anniversary ‘Out of This World’ Hallowe’en celebrations in Guildhall Square and Waterloo Place.
She continued: “We are delighted to be incorporating our new Hell’s Kitchen together with Council’s Haunted Harvest Market showcasing food and crafts from local producers and suppliers, including the Walled City Market.
“As with all our festival events, Hell’s Kitchen will celebrate award-winning local food provenance and we are delighted the event is attracting street vendors from across the north west and wider region as we continue to celebrate Northern Ireland Year of Food and Drink and this month’s Harvest theme.”
Emmett McCourt, author of the Gourmand world award-winning cookery book, ‘Feast or Famine’, will be cooking three special Hallowe’en themed dishes in Hell’s Kitchen including, Bloodied Steak Sandwich using 25-day salt cured sirloin steak from Hannan Meats with Sperrin Blue cheese from Tamnagh Foods served on local sourdough bread and wild rocket.
Hungry revellers will also be saying a big ‘fang you’ when they get the chance to feast fearlessly on Jack O’Lantern Fiery Turnip and Pumpkin Soup, and Emmett’s signature Boxty - a traditional Irish potato pancake – given a special Hallowe’en twist with Armagh apple and Lumper potato.
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