Serving for Centuries

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.

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.

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.

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..

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

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

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.

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.

General Info

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Bresnan and Son

One of the longest running family business in the Market selling meat for over a century.
Like all butchers in the market their meat is brought in from local suppliers and worked on the chopping board.

The range of meat, mutton and pork available is like most of the other butcher stalls in the market and prides itself on good quality produce that is bought by many of the locals.

As you may be able to see from the image below, the range of produce on offer is much better than your local supermarket.

Orginally started as a butchers in 1898 by Michael Bresnans Grandfather, Michael has worked in the market since he was a child.

Spiced beef and bodice, traditional food of Cork.