Cork Penny Dinners keep pace with recession demand
You may well have walked past it and not given the single-storey squat building a moment’s thought. Its exterior is entirely nondescript: the kind of white pebble-dashed building that is swallowed into its grey surrounds.
But look closer and you’ll see a simple teak plaque with Cork Penny Dinners engraved. The name harks back to its 19th century origins for Cork Penny Dinners may have been set up as a soup kitchen by the Quakers during the Famine when the practice of paying one penny for soup and bread was born.
