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FarmGate Restaurant

Farm Gate Restaurant

Farmgate Cafe and Restaurant is a must when visiting Cork, whether just for a Coffee, Breakfast or having lunch.

Opened since 1994 and still meeting the locals high standards for Traditional food to be served as it should. Nearly all the raw ingredients used in the kitchen come from either the Market below or from local suppliers that also supply some of the other stalls in the Market.

If you fancy trying a good value breakfast then this is the place for you to get set for the day.
You have a choice from the traditional sausage & bacon to poached or scrambled eggs. A must for all if in town for the day. Coffee and Scones are very popular mid morning whilst soaking up the every day coming and goings in the market. The surroundings have changed little in the intervening years and just sitting there you will start to get a feel for how the market was in a past era.

The food is prepared by highly skilled chefs using top quality produce and you can really tell. Maybe its the mouthwatering anticipation when you see the waiter approaching your table! One visit to Farm Gate and you'll soon see why its so popular among the locals. So next time you fancy a breakfast before work or shopping then come to one of Corks best known spots for no nonsense good food.
Farm Gate Restaurant
Some of the food delights freshly cooked & served daily.
Fish Chowder, fresh Oysters, Organic Smoked Salmon, Corned Beef & Corned Mutton, Irish Stew, tripe & drisheen, shepherds pie, bacon & liver, chargrilled chicken, maccheroni cheese, chicken salad, goats cheese salad, farmgates own special salad.

Irish Farmhouse cheese plate, lemon tart, apple tart, fruit crumble, bread & butter pudding, banoffi and many more desserts for the sweet tooth.
An excellent selection of wines from France, Spain, Italy, Argentina to name but a few are available to accompany your meal either by the glass or bottle.

The food is very reasonably priced and comes highly rated.
Breakfast is served in the morning. Lunch is served from 12 till 3pm Monday - Saturday with an afternoon menu serving till 4pm.
 

Past & Present

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New Entrance
New entrance New entrance to Prince's-Street Market....


The entrance to the new Prince's-street market... will henceforth rank amongst the principal buildings in our city. It is certainly as handsome a structure as exists in the three kingdoms having the same object, and reflects the greatest credit on our city Architect who designed it, and superintended its construction, and on Mr Walsh, the builder, who carried out the design. The only fault that can be suggested, not in the immediate work itself, but in connection with it, is the difficulty of getting a good view of the front in its position, in a narrow street, which is also one of the busiest thoroughfares in Cork....

The front is a well-designed and graceful structure which under any disadvantages of position must look well. In the centre is a lofty entrance or gateway, twenty feet high and ten feet broad. This being the main purpose of the erection is of course the part to which everything else is subservient. Use and profit, however, are not neglected in the accessories, which consist of two exceedingly handsome houses, especially designed for shops, one at either side of this entrance, the whole forming a large building designed artistically, and erected in a workmanlike manner. There is no particular style adhered to in the design, but in it a general resemblance to buildings built in brickwork after the Lombardo-Italian school, prevails. The front is chiefly constructed of red brick, tastefully varied however in several parts by other colours. For instance, the large arch over the entrance is in black and white brickwork, and the mouldings are of the limestone of this district. The whole building stands on a base of two feet and a half of handsomely cut limestone. The houses on each side are divided vertically on the lower storey into three divisions by two pillars, one division acting as a doorway, and the other two serving as windows. The second storey of each house is in four divisions created by three handsome pillars, and the top storey in five divided by pillars. Over the central arch is a large semi-circular light very ornamentally finished, and a little above this is a circular space for a clock, should it ever be deemed advisable to put one there. The whole is surmounted by a capping of limestone, consisted of a series of corbals, each carrying a semi-circular arch over it, the spaces under the arches being deeply cut, so as to throw a deep and effective shadow - an arrangement that must be noticed and admired by anyone looking at the front from Princes-street. The keystone of the large arch is of limestone. On the whole the front is one of striking beauty.

Passing in through the archway, the visitor stands in a corridor thirty feet deep, the shape of the arch, at each end of which there will be exceedingly handsome gates; inside the outer one will be an entrance from this long archway or corridor into the houses at either side. Inside the corridor lies the market. As is well known, the orginal object of the change in the market was to provide protection for the dealers carrying on their sales there of vegetables, fowl, fruit, fish, etc. That this object has been realised with the utmost regard to utility, and yet in the most perfect compliance with the rules of good taste and effect, will be evidenced to the most casual visitor to the market.

1986 Fire
1986 FireAnother Fire struck the market on Monday night the following is from The Cork Examiner on Tuesday January 7th 1986. The price of the paper was 0.45p
New Market after fire
Restoration after Fire
1980 Fire
1980 Fire
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