The third annual Georgina Campbell Irish Breakfast Awards, held in association with Failte Ireland to honour Ireland’s best breakfasts, have taken place and collecting the top award for Best Breakfast in Ireland in the Visitor Attraction category is Hook Lighthouse.
David Chapman is Head Chef at Hook Lighthouse and he leads a highly talented team of local Chefs, including Patricia Duffin and Craig Power, and a complementary team with varied skillset who are passionate about sourcing and highlighting local food products and producers.
Collecting the award on behalf of Hook Lighthouse Café, David congratulated the Café team for service excellence and innovation and assured of an ever-evolving food offering at Hook with lots of new ideas in the pipeline for each season.
Sinead Hennessy Failte Ireland complimented David for implementing the learnings from the Taste of Place Failte Ireland programme, as the lighthouse features and uses as much fresh local produce as possible.
Georgina Campbell was greatly impressed with the variety of Food Experiences at Hook Lighthouse, ‘Hook is doing something no one else is doing’ offering mention for the innovative Sunrise and Sunset Food Tour Experiences. She strongly commended the use of local cuisine and the great support the Lightkeeper’s Cafe offers to local suppliers.
Commenting on the award win and another positive accolade for Hook Lighthouse, Manager Ann Waters said; “We are thrilled to win the ‘best breakfast amongst all of Ireland’s visitor attractions’ it’s a wonderful accolade especially for the hardworking team in the Café.
“In 2018, we created a whole new menu offering we really concentrated on upping our entire offering in the café with a brand new weekend brunch menu and a full day long menu with great focus on local and artisan food producers and we knew that was a real hit with our visitors so it is a really fantastic achievement to gain national award recognition for this.
“We are also delighted to announce that from March 1st our Brunch menu will be on offer seven days per week and we will continue to focus on offering new food experiences for each season.”
Hook Lighthouse is presently the most popular tourist attraction in Wexford and the third most popular in the South East region, coming in third after the Rock of Cashel and Kilkenny Castle respectively.