A true cottage industry

Cork’s longest-running food emporium, Cinnamon Cottage, has come up for sale in its 21st year of cooking and trading.

The food company was established at the old Rochestown Cafe in 1994 — and has watched with incredulity since, as thousands of new houses and apartments followed its arrival, in Rochestown, Maryborough, Passage West and as the ‘outer Douglas’ suburbs mushroomed.

Now, its owners, chef Carol Muphy and businessman Kieran Corcoran, are stepping down, and Cinnamon Cottage comes to market this month with Peter O’Flynn and Philip Horgan of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald. They say it’s a hugely strong business, but with scope for further development. Price is €575,000 for the business as a going concern, and for the smooth-running building with commercial kitchen, cold rooms, retail and display, etc.