Bay Tree Holywood (The)

118 High Street, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HW.

For the best part of 20 years, The Bay Tree Coffee House in Holywood has been attracting customers from far and wide. It is a food lover’s paradise, as Sue Farmer uses the best of local ingredients on her inventive menu. Sue prepares all her homemade fresh tasty food with tender care and her famous, secret recipe, Cinnamon Scones are worth the trip alone!

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Burren Smokehouse and Visitor Centre (The)

Kincora Road, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare.

Just off the main square in historic Lisdoonvarna, this highly acclaimed, award winning traditional smokehouse owned by Peter and Birgitta Curtin produces superb smoked salmon and locally caught mackerel, and also smokes cheeses from some of Clare’s renowned cheese makers. The Burren smokehouse is also home to a delightful Gourmet Food Shop stoked with superb Irish artisan produce, a charming Craft Shop and a very informative Visitor Centre, where you can see a traditional smoker and view their audio-visual presentation.

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Café Rua

New Antrim Street, Castlebar, Co Mayo.

The McMahon family's Cafe Rua is about all the good things Irish food has to offer, dressed up in a bright colourful space with staff who smile, clearly enjoy what they do and know the difference between one end of a carrot and another.

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Cavistons Seafood Restaurant & Food Emporium

59 Glasthule Road, Glasthule, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.

Based in the quaint south County Dublin village of Glasthule, Peter Caviston's 'Caviston’s Food Emporium', a landmark eatery, has been attracting custom from far and wide for almost 60 years! From its modest fish-shop origins, this family-run business has expanded to provide an impressive range of products spanning the seafood and delicatessen spectrum. For a culinary adventure par excellence, dine at Caviston’s Seafood Restaurant, where the atmosphere matches the food and true freshness, excellence and customer-satisfaction is always guaranteed.

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Cornucopia

19 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2.

Deirdre McCafferty’s Cornucopia has been a central part of the fabric of Dublin City for over twenty years and walking into the buzzing little café, it's easy to see why. Specialising in vegan, vegetarian and wholefood, paying special attention to those with food allergies or intolerances, menus rotate seasonally and are written to revolve around local, organically grown vegetables and Irish farmhouse cheeses.

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Country Choice

25 Kenyon Street, Nenagh, Co Tipperary.

Peter & Mary Ward’s passion for good food is palpable as soon as you enter their wonderfully buzzy eatery and deli in Nenagh. Whether you’re lunching at leisure over Peter’s infamous Beef & Guinness Casserole or simply popping in to take home some of Mary’s divine homemade chutneys, jams, preserves and dressings, you can’t help but become immersed in the characterful enthusiasm that exudes form this dynamic duo.

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Deli On The Green

30 The Linen Green, Moygashel, Co Tyrone, BT71 7HB.

Claire Murray was seriously inspired when she first opened first opened Deli on the Green in 2003 and when she decided to bring Executive Chef Bob McDonald on board things really started to get exciting. Here is a serious chef with a genuine love of the locale, its produce and its producers and a great deli and bistro to prove it! Bob is a serious part of the local food movement in Northern Ireland sourcing his ingredients locally whenever possible. This simply but elegantly styled delicatessen on The Linen Green retail centre is a Mecca for local food lovers and producers.

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Donnybrook Fair

89 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4

This urban restaurant, deli and foodstore has everything a food lover will need from all over the country and even further a field. The extensive food-hall is stocked to the rafters with a mixture of fine, artisan and gourmet speciality items and store -cupboard essentials. A dedicated butchery, fish counter and wonderful freshly baked breads, pastries, cakes and take-out hot and cold lunches, and not to mention the wonderful contemporary restaurant upstairs.

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Dunne & Crescenzi

14 - 16 South Frederick Street, Dublin 2.

When Eileen Dunne And her husband, Stefano Crescenzi opened their unassuming wine shop on Dublin’s Frederick Street, in 1999, they weren’t to know how quickly it was to become a well-loved institution. The room is buzzing with politicians and students, lunching ladies and the literati. What better place to enjoy simple food, late into the evening with a bottle or two of Amarone. A real Dublin gem!

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Fallon & Byrne

11- 17 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.

What did we ever do without Fallon and Byrne?! This wonderful gourmet emporium housed in a magnificently restored building on Exchequer Street is stocked with the choicest selection of artisan products from throughout Ireland and beyond including many Good Food Ireland favourites. With an impressive food hall, a fine wine cellar and a contemporary chic restaurant, it is perhaps the most diverse one-stop-shop and a veritable Mecca for Irish food lovers.

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