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Cork English Market

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Overlooking the fountain from Farm-Gate

A lot of things taste better in Ireland: the Guinness, the farmhouse cheese, the fried pork, the dirty spuds. Since some of us aren\'t ready to ditch the St. Patrick\'s-ian mindset, this has to be one of the Emerald Isle\'s best culinary destinations: The English Market in Cork City, an indoor covered market hall and Ireland\'s answer to the lively, delicious Turkish bazaars. It\'s been around since 1786.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

The market includes a wide choice of healthy, nutritious and flavorsome vegetables, including Organic selections and fruit.

The Real Olive Company

In the Grand Parade market the range of olives and the produce that they are selling includes chillies, feta cheese, pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, vine leaves, olive oil and dried fruits.

Heavens Cakes beautiful with coffee

Heavens Cakes has got the right idea when it comes to cakes & savoury tarts.
Just looking at these beautiful tasty treats may put on a few calories, but when you taste them its well worth it.
Trading now in the market for a number of years they have started to give to the locals what used to be seen in cookery books or on the television.

Cork English Market

It is one of the oldest of its kind. Trading as a market since 1788, it predates most of the other markets like it. Barcelona\'s famous Boqueria market did not start until 80 years after it first started to serve the people of Cork. It has survived the Famine, Revolutions, Wars, Fire and Economic decline..

Lunch-time treat with coffee

Today you can find the older traditional stalls, Vegetable, Butchers, Fruit, Fishmongers along side Cheese, Pasta, Health, Coffee, Sandwich, Oriental stalls but to name a few. Produce that would have only been seen on holidays on far off exotic places are now readly available in the market every day.

Farmhouse Cheese\'s available in the market

On the Pigs Back in the English Market offers excellent cheese and charcuterie from both home and abroad. Whether its for the home table or a restaurant, they can cater for all your needs. The staff are friendly, professional and most important know about all the products they sell.

General Info

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Cooking Tips

Irish Vegetables

The Irish and their vegetables have always been something of a puzzle. How is it that at flower shows and country fetes you can marvel at the delicate tints and perfect flesh of rosy carrots, silvery leeks, snow-white cauliflowers, tomatoes glowing with health, green peas in matchless pods, broad beans and lettuces, radishes and cabbages all bursting with freshness and variety,

Cooking Vegetables

Vegetables are extremely versatile; most can be eaten raw (as crudites served with dips, or grated into salads), and they can be cooked by virtually every method. Cooking is a necessary part of making many vegetables edible.

Cooking Meat

As all raw meats can carry harmful bacteria on the outside, it is important to cook all meat properly to kill the bacteria that can cause food poisoning. This section advises you on how to handle and cook meat, and how to check that your meat is fully cooked and safe to eat.

Cooking Fish

Healthy and delicious, fish is also incredibly versatile. Once you have chosen your fish, you are spoilt for choice when it comes to cooking it.

O Sullivans Poultry
Kay O'Connell's

Glenys Landon has worked most of her life adult life in the market and like her, her daughters work the stall called O'Sullivans Poultry where they supply not only the finest chicken products but exotic meats as well. Read more...

Kay O'Connell's fish stall in the market is an impressive sight on any day. Fish comes from around the world and end's up on the stall fresh and ready to be cooked. Read more...

Cork English Market

Overlooking the fountain from Farm-Gate

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

The Real Olive Company

Heavens Cakes beautiful with coffee

Cork English Market

Lunch-time treat with coffee

Farmhouse Cheese\'s available in the market

General Info

Cooking Tips

Irish Vegetables

Cooking Vegetables

Cooking Meat

Cooking Fish

O Sullivans Poultry

Kay O'Connell's