Dinner Add-On D&D | Belfast Whiskey Week 2025

Name: Belfast Whiskey Week 2026
Start: 2026-07-24
End: 2026-08-01
Location: Belfast

Filed: 15 Jul 2025
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 2 min
Ref: BWW/25/236

Some of the finest moments at Belfast Whiskey Week have always happened around a table, and the D&D Dinner Add-On at the 2025 festival was a testament to that simple truth. For just £10, this supplementary dining experience offered ticket-holders the chance to turn a great evening into something truly memorable — slowing down, sitting together, and letting the food and the uisce beatha do the talking.

Looking Back

There is a particular kind of magic that settles over a room when whiskey and a well-set table come together. The D&D Dinner Add-On was conceived precisely with that magic in mind — a modest but meaningful addition to the main event that gave attendees the chance to ground their evening in something nourishing before, or alongside, the drams to come. At just a tenner, it was one of the shrewder investments any festival-goer could make.

Belfast Whiskey Week has always understood that whiskey is not merely a drink but a duchas — a tradition, a way of gathering. The dinner add-on leaned into that understanding, creating space for conversation and conviviality that the bustle of a tasting session doesn't always allow. Plates cleared, glasses charged, stories shared: it was the festival at its most human.

The D&D format sat naturally alongside some of the week's most ambitious dining experiences. Guests who paired this add-on with an evening like the Redbreast Fine Dining event at the Waterman Restaurant found the combination elevated both experiences — the formality of one complementing the relaxed warmth of the other. Similarly, those who took in the Urban Scullery Supper Club Extra spoke of how the dinner add-on helped ease them into the night with a welcome sense of occasion.

It is worth noting the range of food-led events that defined BWW 2025 — from the theatrical intrigue of A Peculiar Tea: It's a Mystery to the hearty, shipyard-soul of the Titanic Distillers Taste of the Shipyard. The D&D Dinner Add-On served as a quiet connective thread running through these experiences, a reminder that in this tír, we have always set a good table.

Sláinte to the organisers who understood that the best whiskey festival is also, always, a bit of a feast.