Two for two at Crosshaven Tearooms

Some eagle-eyed readers will recall no doubt recall The Menu’s debut column kicking off with an appeal for old china crockery to stock The Tearooms at the heart of the restoration of Fort Camden, in Crosshaven, ‘star’ of Diarmuid Gavin’s RTÉ series Dirty Old Towns.

Unfortunately, just as The Tearooms was set to open it got entangled in the bureaucratic brambles setting back the launch date. With the last administrative thorns extracted, The Menu can now sip daintily on his lapsang souchong from his favoured spot, The Tearooms’ outside deck area with stunning views over Cork Harbour.

Run by baker-extraordinaire, Mags Curtin, formerly of Café Paradiso, it features her exquisite cakes, cookies, scones, along with Slice O’Pie’s beautiful savoury pies (another favourite of The Menu’s), soup, sandwiches and a range of loose-leaf teas, Barry’s Tea and Fair Trade Organic Coffee.