Tour de Fred: Northern Ireland

Fred Sirieix sets off on a gastronomic adventure, exploring Northern Ireland's hidden culinary delights, beginning in the Mourne Mountains. He travels across the region on a tour to uncover its best‑kept food secrets. The journey showcases the area’s finest flavours, revealing dishes that remain largely unknown beyond the local community.

The Mourne Mountains is presented as an episode of a television programme, positioned within the broader genre of episodic content. It centres on a single, self‑contained adventure rather than a multi‑part series, and the format follows a host as they move through a specific location to uncover particular stories. In this instalment, the well‑known hospitality figure Fred Sirieix sets off on a culinary quest. He begins his journey amid the rugged scenery of the Mourne Mountains, using the area as a launchpad for a food‑focused tour that aims to reveal some of Northern Ireland’s most closely guarded tasty secrets. The episode’s structure follows Fred as he moves from one hidden gem to the next, seeking out dishes and flavours that many visitors might miss. By tracing his path from the heights of the mountains down into the surrounding countryside, the programme highlights the region’s lesser‑known gastronomic offerings, keeping the focus firmly on the discovery of these discreet culinary delights.