Green Barn Restaurant and Garden Centre along East Cork ‘foodie trail’ has all the right ingredients

Will the East Cork ‘foodie trail’ stretch to producing a new owner/operator for the entrepreneurially-developed Green Barn Restaurant and Garden Centre near Youghal?

Built as an off-farm enterprise by the local Browne family, who have considerable dairy interests in Killeagh with a 800-strong herd plus the award-garlanded Ballymakeigh House B&B, Green Barn is described as a quality-developed lifestyle restaurant, garden centre/showroom and gift shop, on five acres by its selling/letting agent David McCarthy of Lisney, Cork.

He describes the setting as quite high profile, just off the Cork/Waterford N25, about 7km on the Cork side of Youghal, and states: “It would be ideal for a lifestyle/food operator, keen to take advantage of the large volume of daily passing traffic.”