Galmere Fresh Foods Achieves 2023 Gold Membership in Bord Bia’s Origin Green Program: A Triumph in Sustainability and Nutrition Galmere Fresh Foods is honoured to announce we have obtained a 2023 Gold Membership of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme. In our ongoing sustainability programme, we have been acknowledged to have achieved exemplary performance in three of our targets; Product Health and Nutrition, Raw Materials and Supplier Certification and Packaging. This is the second time that Galmere has achieved Gold Membership status, the first being in 2021.   Read More In their r ..read more

Discover The Galway Kitchen: Affordable, Locally Made Houmous now at Tesco Ireland We are delighted to launch our latest brand, The Galway Kitchen, a range of delicious and great value Irish made houmous. There are three gorgeous options to choose from, with more to follow; Classic Houmous, Reduced Fat Houmous, and Organic Houmous which are now available on-shelf with Tesco Ireland. Retailing from just €1, keeping the rising cost of the shopping basket front of mind, Irish consumers can buy local (most of the houmous sold in Ireland is imported), without breaking the bank!   Read More ..read more

Galmere Scoops Gold at 2020 Blas na hEireann The whole team here at Galmere was thrilled to receive two Gold Awards in the prestigious 2020 Blas na hEireann, the Irish Food Awards. Pestle + Mortar pestos win again! Our sauces brand Pestle + Mortar picked up Gold for the second year in a row for our Sundried Tomato Red pesto.  We’ve refined our Red and Basil Green pestos in this range, using our many years’ experience making award winning pestos and sauces for our trusted private label clients.  Our Basil Green pesto won Silver in these Awards in 2019.     ..read more

Galmere Takes Gold: Awards Season 2021 It has been a wonderfully rewarding awards season for us at Galmere, and we are delighted to announce the accumulation of several new awards. We have been commended in both Blas na hEireann and the Great Taste Awards, alongside a momentous acknowledgement from Bord Bia’s Origin Green Sustainability Programme. Read More (image: Jennifer oppermann for galmere foods) Award Winning Roots and Shoots Green Lentil Dahl Beaming at Blas In early October, the 2021 Irish Food Awards, Blas na hEireann, were announced.  Blas n ..read more

Galmere Celebrates First Basil Harvest Galmere Foods owned brand Pestle + Mortar is now made using fresh Irish Basil. Galmere Foods are now the proud owners of a vertical, digital basil farm on our premises in Galway.  All of the basil harvested will be used for Galmere owned Pestle + Mortar Mutli Award Winning Green Basil Pesto. The basil due to the growing process and care needs no pesticides, and has an incredibly low carbon footprint due to it being grown on location. With all of this considered, we think this must make Pestle + Mortar the freshest pesto in Ireland.  Thi ..read more

Galmere Foods Introduces Site Wide PCR Testing Galmere Foods has begun its first regular site-wide Covid-19 PCR testing. Testing is being carried out in-house, in a fully safe environment, by trained team members, with the first tests having been completed efficiently and effectively.  Any visitors to our production site in Ballybrit already make appointments in advance, now they are tested and wait for just over an hour for their PCR result before entering.  Galmere procured the full equipment for running the tests on-site to maximise speedy turnarounds. We issued surgical masks ..read more

Happy Houmous! Introducing The Galway Kitchen We are delighted to launch our latest brand, The Galway Kitchen, a range of delicious and great value Irish made houmous. There are three gorgeous options to choose from, with more to follow; Classic Houmous, Reduced Fat Houmous, and Organic Houmous which are now available on-shelf with Tesco Ireland. Retailing from just €1, keeping the rising cost of the shopping basket front of mind, Irish consumers can buy local (most of the houmous sold in Ireland is imported), without breaking the bank!   Read More (image: Jennifer Oppermann) Th ..read more

Stronger Together Two words that came to define Ireland in 2020 and continue to do so this year. As we struggle to come to terms with the impact of Covid-19 and the ever shifting pattern of restrictions and regulations, we have certainly come to appreciate the power of pulling together. Eric Matthews, head chef at Dublin’s Michelin star Chapter One Restaurant knows all about the necessity and benefits of teamwork. “It’s the most basic ingredient to success in any enterprise, but nowhere more essential than in a restaurant kitchen,” he says. “We’ve always been flat-out busy at Cha ..read more

Christmas Sparkles Early As we prepare for Christmas 2021, celebratory bubbles began flowing a little earlier in the Hennessy household. Caroline Hennessy, fresh from the international launch of her beautiful new book, The Official Guinness Cookbook, won Online Food Writer of the Year at the 2021 Irish Food Writing Awards, sponsored by Pestle + Mortar and judged by UK food broadcaster Andy Clarke. Read More (image: Irish food writing awards) Caroline Hennessy with her Irish Food Writing Award for Online Food Writing Christmas Sparkles Early “I was very proud to have been ..read more

A Sooper Future: An Interview with Simon Stenning Eighteen months ago who could have predicted the success of letterbox cocktails or home-finished meals from Michelin starred restaurants? The global pandemic has altered lives and businesses on every level, disrupting the food industry on a scale not seen in more than 80 years. “Sadly, this has been a period of devastation for some operators dealing with high fixed-costs and a trade that disappeared almost overnight.  For others, a time of reinvention and growth,” says Simon Stenning, one of the UK’s most highly reg ..read more