'People tend to think of lentils and soggy salads' - Café customers served vegan food without knowing

Carolanne Rushe has a way of drawing you in. Talk of her travels and how the vertiginous mounds of aromatic spices in the Qatar souk influenced her cooking is enough to whet any appetite.
Little wonder then that many who eat at her award-winning plant-based café on Bridge Street in Sligo were coming to Sweet Beat for over a year before realising that all the food was vegan.