The Menu: Food news with Joe McNamee
The Menu is delighted to see the very excellent Neighbourhood initiative, offering consumers who otherwise might not be able to attend the actual markets themselves, the opportunity to shop online at their leisure for the finest of local farmers’ market fare and collect same at a pre-arranged collection point on one specific evening of the week. The latest arrival to the ‘family’ is in Watergrasshill at the increasingly intriguing O’Mahony’s, an old family establishment undergoing a very welcome revival as a gastropub under Máire O’Mahony and Victor Murphy, formerly of House Cafe at the Opera House.
Producers available at the Watergrasshill Neighbourfood include: Fitzgerald butchers, Kilbrack farm, Knocklara farmhouse cheese, Eight degrees brewing, Longueville house beverages, Future Orchards,Yummie foods, Square garden, Adams eggs, My Goodness ltd, Olives west cork, Yum Gelato, Saturday pizzas, Bread & Roses and Organic republic with more to follow. Collection time 5-7pm, each Wednesday. (www.neighbourfood.ie/markets/watergrasshill/14)
