Donnybrook Fair Restaurant, Food Hall & Cookery School

89 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.

This urban restaurant, cookery school, 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 with menus that combine the finest seasonal Irish ingredients with flavours from around the world.

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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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Gleeson's Artisan Food & Wine Shop

The Manse, Market Square, Roscommon

This fabulous Artisan Food & Wine Shop is the brainchild of husband and wife team Mary and Eamonn Gleeson of Gleeson's Townhouse & Restaurant. They obviously did their homework here as you would never suspect that it is only a recent addition to the Roscommon shopping scene as its selves are stocked with carefully chosen products, a fine selection of wines and freshly baked scones and soda breads in abundance.

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Gleeson's Townhouse & Restaurant

The Manse, Market Square, Roscommon Town.

Overlooking Roscommon’s historic main square this 19th century townhouse has been lovingly restored by Eamonn and Mary Gleeson. This is an extremely comfortable and welcoming place to stay, and a superb place to eat out. Experience The Manse Restaurant, where you will receive all the old values of guest satisfaction and quality meals, and Gleeson’s Café where you can enjoy delicious range of homemade scones, cakes and breads and favourites such as homemade beef and Guinness Pie for lunch.

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Hargadons

4 O'Connell Street, Sligo.

Hargadons is a perfect pit stop in the centre of Sligo Town. Lunch is as buzzing as dinner and served in a fantastic old world pub, which has been lovingly restored to its latter-day authenticity. This Traditional Pub, Restaurant and modern artisan Wine Shop has become a favourite on the Sligo scene and renowned for it’s charming hospitality. Why not pop in for a local sirloin sandwich with some of Gráinne’s homemade chips and a wonderful pint of creamy Guinness, served with a smile, a chat and a tad of local gossip…

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Hickey's Bakery & Café

Westgate, Irishtown, Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

Hickey's Bakery & Café is a traditional family bakery which has been providing the people of the region with fresh bread and Hickey’s famous fruit brack loaves for over a century now. This long standing business also incorporates a day time café serving morning snacks, lunches and afternoon tea. You'll find a selection of light or substantial dishes along with the in house baking and patisserie too. We just love it when we find this kind of establishment – and we are only to happy to welcome the owner into the happy Good Food Ireland fold. Hickey's is easy to find right by the West Gate in Clonmel Town so you really can't miss it!

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Kates Kitchen

3 Castle Street, Sligo Town.

Kate O’Hara has recently taken over this prestigious shop in Sligo town and it remains one of the best gourmet food and wine shop and delicatessen around. The shelves are packed with goodies of all kinds, beautifully presented and laid out in an inspired style.

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La Dolce Vita

6/7 Trimmers Lane, Wexford.

Roberto Pons is suitably modest about his wonderful restaurant La Dolce Vita being known as ‘the best Italian in the country’. Ligurian-born Roberto and his wife Celine has created a little gem nestled in the shadow of Selskar Abbey. Roberto’s infectious personality and award-winning cuisine have been keeping customers happy and of course returning like old friends for some years now and the best news is they are now open in the evening on Fridays and Saturdays.

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Mannings Emporium

Ballylickey, Bantry, Co Cork.

Val Manning has been operating the Good food Ireland principles for years and it’s down in no small way to this man that the first artisans of West Cork found their feet. He supports numerous small producers and cheese makers in this area, here is one of the men, and indeed one of the shops, that help the Irish food revolution happen.

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Sage Café

86 Noth Main Street, Youghal, Co Cork

Its lively location on the main street in Youghal, right by the town’s landmark clock tower makes Sage Café a modern and spacious day time café and deli with lovely outdoor courtyard seating. This eatery specialises in the use of local produce that has been treated simply. There is a lovely selection of lunch main courses and a fantastic array of home baking and desserts. Baked goods, homemade jams, chutneys, relishes and house wines for all for sale here

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