Full of beans: Three Fools cafes leases warehouse for growth

Three Fools has three outlets to date, wholesale sales and also operates its recently purchased beans.ie site for international bean links

De caff: Three Fools Coffee's pod on Grand Parade, where the business started in 2015.

CORK is known nationwide and further afield for a certain major tea brand, Barry’s which was founded in 1901 – but, coming up on the outside is a perky ring of coffee roasters who also source their wares from growers around the world and give them a local Cork accent.

A local specialist coffee brand with three outlets to date - and with two pop-ups planned for the Christmas period - has just marked its tenth anniversary with the lease of a 700 sq m (7,560 sq ft) warehouse for its storage and coffee bean roasting needs: it has joined a clutch of others such as Cork Coffee Roasters, Velo, Mahers, SOMA as well as West Cork Coffee and Stone Valley amongst other roasters operating locally.