Northern Irish premium beef showcased at UK food festival

Glenarm Estate premium beef from Northern Ireland will be showcased by celebrity chef Mark Hix in the forthcoming Food Rocks Festival in Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Hix will feature the award winning beef from the estate in county Antrim in a new feature for 2018 - the Glenarm Estate Beef Supper Club on 8-9th September.

Food Rocks is celebrating its sixth year in Lyme Regis, Dorset. The festival started as a vision of Mark Hix with the aim of promoting the produce of his hometown of Lyme Regis and the surrounding areas, by presenting some of the best food, producers and suppliers that Dorset and the South West has to offer.

Featuring Glenarm Estate beef is a tremendous endorsement of the quality and outstanding taste of the Northern Ireland meat, which is supplied by Northern Irish entrepreneur Peter Hannan of Hannan Meats in Moira, county Armagh for ageing in his complex of Himalayan Salt Chambers.

Hannan is a longstanding supplier of quality meat to Hix, who runs a network of upmarket restaurants in London.

Glenarm Estate's Adrian Morrow says: "We are delighted that Mark Hix, among our most valued and respected customers, has chosen to showcase our beef as a central feature of the colourful Food Rocks Festival in September."

The festival brings together top chefs, exhibitors, locals and those who are visiting Lyme Regis. The main stage will showcase a diverse mix of interactive cookery demonstrations, talks and tastings across the weekend.

In addition to this, all money raised is donated to the RNLI and the Fishermen's Mission.