Welcome to Dine-Out 2026

A small island with a very big food story.

Welcome to the fourth annual Delicious Jersey Dine-Out Festival.

When we created Delicious Jersey and the Dine-Out Festival four years ago, our ambition went far beyond encouraging people to eat out for a few weeks each autumn. We wanted to create something that could help Jersey recognise, celebrate and ultimately build upon one of this Island’s greatest assets: the extraordinary combination of people, produce and place that exists within our 9 × 5 miles. Since then, that ambition has grown.

The Jersey Hospitality Association is now stronger, larger and more diverse than ever before. We love the fact that our membership stretches from some of Jersey’s largest companies and employers to extraordinary single-person businesses, with restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafés, attractions, retailers, producers, suppliers and entrepreneurs in between. That diversity is not simply a feature of our Association, it is one of the things that makes Jersey special.

This year we are particularly excited to feature more of our Island’s producers throughout the Inspire section of this website and to be working more closely with other local food-focused initiatives. Our ambition is to help connect what is already happening across Jersey into a genuine 12-month calendar of food and drink events, education, experiences, celebrations and showcases, because Jersey has a remarkable opportunity.

Across Europe, culinary tourism and agritourism have become powerful reasons to travel. Increasingly, visitors want more than somewhere beautiful to stay. They want to understand a destination through its food, to meet its farmers, visit its producers, taste what comes from its land and sea and sit around a table with the people who turn those ingredients into something memorable.

For an island our size, Jersey packs an enormous punch. Our farmers, growers, fishers and aquaculture businesses produce remarkable ingredients. Our artisans and entrepreneurs turn them into distinctive products. Our chefs, bartenders, restaurateurs and hospitality teams create experiences around them, and our beaches, countryside, history and extraordinary tidal range provide a sense of place that simply cannot be replicated elsewhere.

We believe agriculture, fisheries, producers, hospitality and tourism should therefore be viewed not as separate worlds, but as interconnected parts of one diverse Island economy.

That is why the JHA created Delicious Jersey, it is why we created the Dine-Out Festival, and in spring, the Jersey Food Festival. These initiatives exist for one overriding reason: to give Jersey more opportunities to celebrate, experience and share the amazing, unique and utterly delicious things produced on our Island.

But there is an even bigger reason why this matters, a thriving hospitality, food and visitor economy is fundamental to Jersey's quality of life. The restaurants we eat in, cafés where we meet, pubs where we catch up, hotels and attractions that welcome our visitors, farms that shape our countryside, boats bringing home our seafood and independent businesses creating something new all contribute to making Jersey somewhere people want to live.

That, in turn, matters to every other part of our economy. Businesses across Jersey need to attract talented people and their families to make this Island their home. Our connectivity depends upon people wanting and needing to travel here. Our competitiveness depends upon Jersey being not simply somewhere to work, but somewhere people actively want to live, invest, visit and build a future. Take away the vibrancy of our hospitality, cultural, food and visitor economy and our quality of life diminishes. Our attractiveness diminishes with it, and ultimately so does our ability to compete and remain connected to the wider world. That is why supporting local matters.

It also means supporting the next generation. Jersey needs entrepreneurs, ideas, creativity and people prepared to take risks. We need young Islanders to see exciting careers and opportunities across food, farming, fishing, hospitality, tourism and entrepreneurship, and to believe that this is an Island where they can create something of their own.

So during this year's Dine-Out Festival, we ask you to do something wonderfully simple. Go out. Try somewhere new. Order something local. Discover a producer you didn't know existed. Meet friends around a table. Ask where your food came from. Raise a glass to the people who grew it, caught it, made it, cooked it or poured it. Every time we do that, we strengthen the connections between our Island's businesses, communities and people, and the wonderful thing is that supporting Jersey has rarely tasted quite so DELICIOUS!

Bouan Appétit!

Ana & Marcus Calvani

Co-CEOs, Jersey Hospitality Association