A flavour of Limerick: getting to know the city's restaurants and cafés

Joe McNamee tours the food delights of the Treaty County

Lorna O'Toole, Green Acres at the Milk Market, Limerick. Picture Dan Linehan

Towards the tail end of 2019, I went on an extended two-day food tour of city and county with a posse of Ireland’s finest from the Irish Food Writers’ Guild and there were strong signs that Limerick was finally ‘coming good’, culinary dots last being properly connected and previously disparate elements gradually coming together in a unified vision of the Treaty County as an Irish food destination of note.

To be honest, the wonder is why it took so long for the epicurean re-emergence of ‘Pigtown’ - thus named for a time when its reputation as a producer of finest Limerick hams was global and thoroughly deserved.