Stuffed Olive Cafe reopens and launches book

The Menu has enjoyed wonderfully uplifting repasts in The Stuffed Olive Café, in Bantry, so was saddened when it closed last year.

Thankfully, Trish Messom and her daughters, Sarah and Grace O’Shea, have found new premises on Bridge St and Trish has penned the delightful The Stuffed Olive Cookbook (€9.95), which features many of their regular dishes, including an array of inventive salads, all designed to salve The Menu’s conscience prior to altercations with their wonderful cakes and confections. A donation from each copy sold goes to the Irish Haemochromatosis Association — Sarah and Grace’s dad, Timmy O’Shea, died three years ago from this genetically inherited condition. Purchase in-store or email: [e-mail].

A swift jaunt through newish venues