This unique dining experience will trace Limerick's relationship with fire and meat across eight centuries, from The SpitJacks of King John's Castle's great hall, through the city's time as "Pigtown" (Matterson's, O'Mara's, Denny's and Shaw's, whose hams reached Queen Victoria's table and were exported as far as Russia and Romania), right up to the spit turning in our own kitchen today.
A five-course tasting menu will follow that timeline; an opening course evoking the castle hearth, a course built around cured pork history, the spit-roast centrepiece, a course nodding to Limerick ham's export history, and a fire-finished dessert to close.
The story is told through the menu, with each course's description carrying its piece of the history, so guests read the journey as they eat at their own tables.
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