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Glebe House Gardens

Jean and Peter Perry’s wonderful gardens just outside Baltimore attract a growing number of visitors each year and they have a delightful café for those in need of a restorative bite; it’s all very wholesome - and they generously allow you to bring your own picnic too, if preferred.

The menu is sensibly short but the food, using organically grown ingredients from the garden and from named local craft suppliers, is unpretentious, and cooked (to order) to a very high standard indeed.

For example, you might try a four fish chowder, accompanied by delicious home-made brown bread and the lightest, fluffiest white scone you are likely to find anywhere followed, perhaps, by a scrumptious three cheese (Irish farmhouse) and tomato tart accompanied by a delicately dressed salad from the garden.

Other possibilities include smoked mackerel pate with a green salad, breads and toasts, or a children’s lunch, of Rosscarbery sausage with pea & potato mash - and all this at a surprisingly reasonable cost. Simply delicious.

In 2008 the food side of the business developed further with the addition of a new restaurant space and dinner, was offered for the first time, featuring daily changed menus based on whatever is freshest and best on the day.

The choice offered is limited to three main courses (which always include a vegetarian option) plus a selection of starters and desserts.

Wine list available.

The Glebe Cafe : Gardens open weekends Easter-June and Wed-Sun Jun-Aug. Café open daily from 10am for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea; restaurant open Wed-Sun 7-10pm, in summer.

Directions:

Off Skibbereen-Baltimore road: entrance directly opposite 'Baltimore' sign as you enter the village.