From Our Fields & Wates
In Cork, we take great pride in our food and our food heritage and culture. Many of our best chefs now insist on championing and using only locally sourced ingredients as far as is possible.
These are our local heroes. The chefs, cafes and restaurants that believe that as we have some of the best produce in the world, we should look to our own fields and waters, to guarantee quality and encourage sustainability.
From award-winning restaurants to craft butchers and country house cafes, what you see on our tables or in our stores is often from local fields and shores. It is a big part of who we are.
In Cork, those championing local ingredients include:
Sage Restaurant
Midleton, Ireland
In the market town of Midleton, close by the famous Jameson Whiskey Distillery, you will find the celebrated Sage Resturant with its famous “12-Mil...
Cork Character Cafes
Cork, Ireland
This confederation of some of Cork’s best-loved and most characterful cafes is an initiative of Ruth Healy of Urru Culinary Store in the town of Ba...
Pilgrim's Restaurant
Cork, Ireland
This restaurant, in the charming West Cork village of Rosscarbery has built a fine reputation by using the very best of West Cork growers and produ...
Ballyvolane House
Castlelyons, Ireland
This historic Irish country house has grace, warmth and style, and a restaurant (under head chef Teena Mahon) which focuses heavily on locally sour...
Rachel's Restaurant
A recent addition to the city’s roster of top-class restaurants, Rachel's Resturant is named for restaurateur Rachel Allen, one of Ireland’s best k...
The Farmgate
Cork, Ireland
From small beginnings, as a family farm store and café in the market town of Midleton in the early ‘80s, the Farmgate has become a Cork institution...
Paradiso
Cork, Ireland
This innovative, award-winning vegetarian restaurant first opened its doors in 1993 and has since become a Cork icon.
