Heat expansion from new restaurant by Midleton’s Iceland

Hot spicy food - by way of a fourth Ramen Asian street food restaurant - is set to ok up next to an Iceland store, in East Cork’s Midleton Distillery Lane’s €30m development.

Growing with remarkable rapidity, the year-old food company Ramen is taking over the former c 1,300 sq ft Café Moccha in the Main Street scheme, where Iceland opened in December of 2014, taking c 8,000 sq ft for its sixth Irish store.

Iceland aims to expand to 50-60 Irish outlets in this, its second, expansion drive here and says it will create 1,000 jobs. Iceland reports ‘record’ business in Midleton, and, with Ramen, the duo will now drive footfall to the shops’ scheme on the old Tesco site.