Norah and Ralph Brown’s renowned Georgian retreat offers comfort, true family hospitality and good food. The house is on an elevated site just outside Dungannon, with about 20 acres of grounds; mature woodland and gardens (producing food for th ... more...
This extraordinary place is well worth a visit, whether to attend one of its courses - covering a wide range of life skills, including cookery courses, and offered on a regular basis - or just to have a look.
Their Eco-Shop offers seasonal produce fro ... more...
Cheeses / Classes/Courses / Internet/Phone Mail Order
In rich pasture land beside the River Erne, Silke Cropp makes her wonderful range of goat, sheep and cows' milk cheeses. Silke is one of Ireland's longest-practising cheesemakers, and the original, Corleggy, is a natural rind hard goats' cheese with co ... more...
Easy to spot with its white walls and beautiful hanging baskets - and the cast iron farm gates wide open in a welcoming, “Come say Hello”, type of way - cheesemaker Helen Finnegan's café is at Knockdrinna Farm on the main street of ... more...
Men on a mission would be the best way to describe Marco Giannantonio and Maurizio Mastrangelo, who set up the Flavour of Italy Group in 2005, hell bent on promoting Italian food and wine 'in Ireland and other foreign countries'.
Their Pinocchio resta ... more...
Sligo native Aisling Kelly returned to her home town in 2014 to open this friendly café in the premises that was once her family’s pub.
Situated near the bridge and just a stone's throw from the famous statue of WB Yeats, this well-named ... more...
Café / Classes/Courses / Fish & Seafood / Restaurant
A small, bright sushi restaurant tucked away down by the docks, Wa Cafe was opened by Yoshimi Hayakawa on the 08/08/2008 - and this date is no coincidence, as the number 8 is considered a very lucky number in Japanese culture. It's a cosy little spot w ... more...
Gallery only (by appointment) until further notice
This is a fantastic little place and, even if the stunningly beautiful Loop Head (and its lighthouse) weren't such a magnet, it would be worth heading to the peninsula just for the pleasure of a visit ... more...
NOT OPENING IN 2022
As neat as a new pin, Kevin and Ber O’Donnell’s delightfully situated farmhouse is on a former dairy farm, surrounded by three mountain ranges - the Comeraghs, the Knockmealdowns and the Galtees - and close t ... more...
Eggs / Farmshop / Fruit & Veg / Meat & Game / Poultry
Regan Organic Produce is a 45 acre organic mixed farm where the main focus is on poultry - with both laying and table chickens and ducks, as well as turkeys for Christmas - but there are also pigs, lambs and a small suckler herd. Details of all the bre ... more...
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