Not content with bagging September’s World BBQ Championships, Limerick is hosting the International Food Truck Festival from June 1-5 in the People’s Park, which is handily located across the road from Colbert railway station. 60 food trucks from 14 countries will be dishing up everything from burritos, artisan Belgian chocolate and shark to noodles, lobster and edible insects.

Whilst we won’t be rushing to try them again, we quite enjoyed the spicy deep-fried locusts we sampled recently in Bangkok, but not the scorpions, which are veritably Satan’s good. There will also be a side order of live music and other family-friendly fun. limerick.ie/foodtruckfestival.

While we’re too long in the tooth to be turning cartwheels, Hot Flavours’ excitement levels went off the Richter Scale when we heard that Fade St. Social has a new menu requiring rigorous examination.