Many would make the trek to Dingle solely for the pleasure of tucking into one of the treats on offer at this cheerful blue and white fronted café down near the harbour.
The Murphy brothers, Kieran and Séan, have been making ice cream with fresh Kerry milk and cream here since 2000 and have earned a national reputation in the meantime - now they supply a network of discerning restaurants and specialist outlets around the country and are expanding with a second café in Killarney and a couple more opened in Dublin in summer 2010.
The café is unusual in that it only offers coffees and ice cream (the range of flavours is growing all the time), scooped in time-honoured fashion from a freezer cabinet in the shop and available in little tubs to take away if you like; also milk shakes and and ice cream desserts (sundaes, banana split).
The only exception to this rule is German baker Wiebke Murphy’s collection of superb utterly irresistible gateaux, which are displayed in a cabinet and would be very difficult to ignore.
There’s also a Murphy’s Ice Cream Cake, the perfect party piece, and some of the Murphy’s own favourite chocolates.
* Kieran and Séan Murphy published their ‘Book of Sweet Things’, available from the cafés and bookshops.
Seats 25 (outdoors, 8). Open 7 days a week - high season, 11-10pm; low season, 11-6.30pm. Toilets wheelchair accessible; children welcome. No credit cards.
