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Don’t Panic! Here’s a Fab Last-Minute Gift for the Foodie in Your Life


By Sharon Miney
16th Dec 2015

Galway Food Tours

Don’t Panic! Here’s a Fab Last-Minute Gift for the Foodie in Your Life

Galway Food Tours

Not a?fine food connoisseur? No worries.?You needn’t fear making an embarrassing?blunder when buying for that?picky gastronome/wine buff in your life. Just’snap?up a voucher for one of these food tours run by fabulous francophile/Galway girl Sheena Dignam, and you have a truly tasty foodie Christmas gift…

Sheena Dignam. Photograph: Nathalie Marquez Courtney
Sheena Dignam at the Spanish Arch. Photograph: Nathalie Marquez Courtney

Previously a bit of a word-of-mouth phenomenon, the supremely popular Galway Food Tours are now selling gift vouchers for their 2016 foodie adventures. Sommelier and food fan?Sheena Dignam, born in Ireland but raised in France, leads regular?culinary walking tours of gorgeous Galway, which?allow people to try top-notch produce from oysters to cheese,’sushi to crab, doughnuts to strawberry tarts. Galway’s famous food culture is explored over a morning or afternoon, taking in some of the city’s best-known and secret food haunts, and, of course, a sumptuous spin around the famous weekend market. Hmmm, all this talk is making us really hungry… Get your vouchers now!

Food tour vouchers are available for €26 in McCambridge’s, Kai ?and Cases,?Galway.

Merveilles d’Irlande

Keep an eye out for our brand-new January-February issue, on shelves Friday (December 18), for a full interview with Sheena as part of’six pages devoted to the gorgeous gourmet scene in Galway…