Food Producers

The Ivory Tower is an intimate, quirky dining room above some shops on Oliver Plunkett Street, the busy heart of Cork city centre. Chef Seamus O’Connell is something of a Cork legend, a maverick, an inventor, a supremely talented chef who fuses Irish ingredients with French, Mexican and Japanese traditions. His tasting menus are famous, the experience is rarely less than intriguing and it will almost certainly be a meal to remember.

Award-winning fully-licenced Wine Bar in Cork City, open for morning coffee, lunch and light evening meals. We serve a wide selection of organic, biodynamic & natural wine and honest and simple food based on traditional home-cooking found in French Bistros and Italian Trattorias.

Ballymaloe House has been at the centre of Cork’s food culture for decades, with a cookery school that has won international acclaim. The famous old country house in East Cork runs regular early morning Pastry & Bread Making Courses. But be ready for an early start – dough mixing begins at 7am!

The O Crualaoi group of local family butchers and delicatessans, have been offering the very finest and freshest quality food produce since 1957.

The Hyde collection is three limited edition and very distinctive Irish Whiskeys, matured to perfection in County Cork.

They are a small family business who have been operating for 12 years throughout Cork City and County.

The Castle Pantry is a wholesale gourmet fine food company based in Midleton, Co. Cork.

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, with its restaurant and store still in Midleton and a charming restaurant and balcony café in the City’s English Market.

Guided activity days which have a strong foodie element (along with adventure sports, hill-walking and sight-seeing) in several different regions in Cork, including the city, East and West Cork and the stunning, wild scenery of Glengarriff and the Beara Penisula.

Eat raw nettles, discover how to brew delicious herbal teas, pick a fresh salad and find out about common uses of plants, trees and funghi, the folklore of the flora of the Irish landscape with Will & Away foraging walks at various locations in Cork.