Restaurant review: The Café at Stephen Pearce Pottery Shanagarry, Co Cork

Some months ago, a great comrade, GB, steered me in the direction of what he promised was a mighty fine dining establishment indeed. 

With that questionable attention to detail that is the hallmark of all true space cadets, I retained only a few key words of our conversation, namely, ‘Stephen Pearce Pottery’, ‘café’ and ‘Shanagarry’ and fetched up one Sunday morning in the East Cork village at a large pottery and crafts barn.

I presumed this to be the correct place, having some vague memories of once squiring Dear Old Sainted Mother around the premises, she, a pottery junkie of long standing, Stephen Pearce’s work, in particular, her handturned equivalent of crystal meth.