Seaweed is an important coastal product in the West of Ireland. In addition to its traditional use to enrich farmland, it is harvested commercially for culinary and therapeutic use, particularly in Co Sligo, and Frank and Betty Melvin of Carrig Fhada S ... more...
Originally established by French chef Franck Pasquier 2008, he left this popular continental bakery in good hands when it was taken over by Clotilde Rambaud and Tomasz Giderewicz in 2012.
Clotilde, who is from Nantes in southern Brittany, had worked ... more...
The popular Sneem black pudding originated in this little butchers and is still made here, baked like a big cake and sliced as required.
Kieran Burns is a fourth generation butcher and it was his grandmother, Margaret (Clifford) Burns, who came up wit ... more...
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Handmade with the best Belgian chocolate, Marlene's Chocolates offer a range of sweet indulgences, with no additives or preservatives added.
Wedding favours, children's party novelties and corporate gifts are a speciality and there\'s a wide range to ... more...
This long-established quality catering company and deli offers irresistible freshly baked cakes, pastries and desserts - alongside excellent savoury fare including ready meals, great salads and sandwiches. more...
Whether for a special joint of meat (local Connemara Hill Lamb, perhaps), or to top up with speciality foods, a visit to this wonderful shop is de rigeur for foodies when heading out west from Galway for a break in Connemara - and again when heading b ... more...
Slow Food farmers Martin and Noreen Conroy are renowned for the free range pork, bacon and sausages that they produce, with the help of their five children, on their small mixed farm near Midleton - and for which they received a very well-deserved Euro ... more...
This boutique coffee roasters was set up here in 2008 by the highly experienced and coffee-educated Australian Brock Lewin who relocated to Co Cork with his wife who is from Fermoy.
Although they now have retail outlets in Galway and Dublin, their unu ... more...
When former dairy farmers Paul and Siobhan Lawless started their farmhouse bakery, “The Foods of Athenry” in 2000, a converted bicycle shed on their Co Galway farm was the unlikely setting for the new business. By 2004, however, growing dem ... more...
One of Ireland’s most famous butchers and rightly so, McCarthy’s of Kanturk in Co Cork is an institution that is very definitely ‘worth a detour’.
Fifth and sixth generation butchers Jack McCarthy and his son Tim come from a lo ... more...
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