Irish Cooking Class & Dinner in Dublin: Make Traditional Dishes

Cook an Irish dinner and eat it the same night

An Irish cooking class in central Dublin where you make traditional soda bread, soup, Beef and Guinness casserole with Colcannon, and Irish coffee in your host Ann's home, then sit down to dinner together. The evening runs three hours and includes all drinks; Ann is a certified national tour guide with decades in catering and hospitality. A recipe booklet goes home with you.

The Experience

Ann welcomes you into her Dublin home for an evening that moves straight from the kitchen to the table. You'll cook alongside her—making traditional Irish soda bread, a leek and potato soup, a Beef and Guinness casserole with Colcannon (the Irish potato and kale dish), and finishing with Jameson Irish coffee. The work is hands-on but unhurried; this is not a rushed demonstration. Once everything is ready, you sit down to eat what you've made, and the evening shifts into the kind of conversation and laughter the Irish call craic.

The group is small and mixed—other travelers who showed up for the same reason you did. Ann moves between cooking instruction and storytelling, sharing both her food knowledge and her perspective on Dublin itself. She'll give you practical advice on where to spend your remaining time in the city, the kind of thing a local tells you over dinner that no guidebook captures. Drinks—wine, coffee, Irish coffee—flow throughout, and by the end of the night you've made new people into something closer to friends.

The three-hour evening happens in her home in central Dublin; the exact address arrives on your confirmation voucher. Public transportation stops are nearby. You leave with the recipes you've cooked and the kind of memory that makes a trip stick—not a performance, but a genuine evening in someone's kitchen and at their table.

What’s included

• Cooking instruction for traditional Irish soda bread, soup, Beef and Guinness casserole and Colcannon.
• dinner with all the dishes you've made.
• wine, coffee and Irish coffee throughout the evening.
• a recipe booklet to take home.
• advice from Ann on exploring Dublin.

Good to know

Public transport nearby

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Is this one for you?The evening asks for three hours of hands-on cooking and conversation in a home kitchen—no rushing, no performance, just the pace of making food and eating it together. If you want to learn Irish cooking by doing it rather than watching, and you're comfortable with a small group of strangers who become friends over dinner, this is the real thing.

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Top questions

What exactly do I cook during the Irish cooking class?

You make traditional Irish soda bread, leek and potato soup, Beef and Guinness casserole served with Colcannon (potatoes and kale), and your own Jameson Irish coffee. Everything you cook becomes the dinner you eat together afterward.

Is this a small group or will there be a lot of people?

The class is an intimate social dining experience in Ann's home, designed for like-minded travelers to cook and eat together. The setting is cozy and personal, not a large commercial kitchen.

What's included in the price, and do I need to bring anything?

Dinner, all beverages (wine, coffee, Irish coffee), instruction, and a recipe booklet are included. You bring yourself and any dietary restrictions or allergies you need Ann to know about when you book.

How long does the whole evening take?

The experience runs three hours from start to finish—cooking, sitting down to eat, and the conversation that follows.

Will Ann give me tips about Dublin beyond the cooking?

Yes. Ann is a certified national tour guide with many years in catering and hospitality, and she shares information and advice about the city so you get the most out of your stay in Dublin.

Is there outdoor seating, or do we eat inside?

Outdoor seating on a beautiful terrace is available in summer months, weather permitting. Otherwise, dinner happens inside her home.