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Cork English Market

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The Real Olive Company

In the Grand Parade market the range of olives and the produce that they are selling includes chillies, feta cheese, pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, vine leaves, olive oil and dried fruits.

Heavens Cakes beautiful with coffee

Heavens Cakes has got the right idea when it comes to cakes & savoury tarts.
Just looking at these beautiful tasty treats may put on a few calories, but when you taste them its well worth it.
Trading now in the market for a number of years they have started to give to the locals what used to be seen in cookery books or on the television.

Overlooking the fountain from Farm-Gate

A lot of things taste better in Ireland: the Guinness, the farmhouse cheese, the fried pork, the dirty spuds. Since some of us aren\'t ready to ditch the St. Patrick\'s-ian mindset, this has to be one of the Emerald Isle\'s best culinary destinations: The English Market in Cork City, an indoor covered market hall and Ireland\'s answer to the lively, delicious Turkish bazaars. It\'s been around since 1786.

Farmhouse Cheese\'s available in the market

On the Pigs Back in the English Market offers excellent cheese and charcuterie from both home and abroad. Whether its for the home table or a restaurant, they can cater for all your needs. The staff are friendly, professional and most important know about all the products they sell.

Cork English Market

It is one of the oldest of its kind. Trading as a market since 1788, it predates most of the other markets like it. Barcelona\'s famous Boqueria market did not start until 80 years after it first started to serve the people of Cork. It has survived the Famine, Revolutions, Wars, Fire and Economic decline..

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

The market includes a wide choice of healthy, nutritious and flavorsome vegetables, including Organic selections and fruit.

Lunch-time treat with coffee

Today you can find the older traditional stalls, Vegetable, Butchers, Fruit, Fishmongers along side Cheese, Pasta, Health, Coffee, Sandwich, Oriental stalls but to name a few. Produce that would have only been seen on holidays on far off exotic places are now readly available in the market every day.

General Info

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Ballycotton Seafood

The story of Ballycotton Seafood is as good as it gets. Starting of first as a small traditional smoke house in Garryvoe, Midleton, Co. Cork. it soon went on to bigger things. They had their own fishing vessels supplying them with fresh fish and prawns, which in turn they used to supply many restaurants in the South-East region.

As they started to expand by opening the retail shop in Main st., Midleton they also started to supply many commerical seafood outlets in the South of Ireland and Bandon Fish was but one of them, supplying Jack and Marian for many years where they in turn sold the fresh fish to the locals in the English Market.

After the sad parting of Marian Burke in 2007, Jack decided to put away his filleting knife and Ballycotton Seafood took over the stall in the market, this was a new quest for them and they used their many years of experience both from the factory and shop in Midleton to continue what Jack & Marian had done for many years, supply good quality fresh fish to the shoppers in the market, whether you be a local restaurant or buyer for the table you get the same top quality service and fresh fish.

Supplying alot of restaurants in Cork and beyond, as well as the local, its not unusual to see prominent chefs shopping here for their produce to be cooked that evening. Most of the fish sold on the stall comes either from their boats or from the auctions at Union Hall or the nearby ports of Castletownbere and Ballycotton. The fresh fish is brought up each morning from the factory in Garryvoe and displayed on the counter for all to buy.

If you are not sure what to buy then ask one of the staff for a recommendation and if you are lucky you may get a tried & tested recipe to go along with it.
All the fish can either be sold on the bone or filleted, the choice is yours. The staff are professional and language is not an issue at this stall so no matter where your from and if your in cork then you know where to buy fresh fish.

Fishmonger, or Fisherman ?
The art of being a fishmonger is not easy to learn and it takes time and patience to learn the structure of each fish that you work with.

The range of FRESH fish available every day is what makes Ballycotton unique in the market.
Cod, Hake, Salmon, Plaice, Lemon Sole, Black Sole, Turbot, Skate (Ray-Wing), Sea-Bass, Sea-Bream, Haddock, Monk Fish, Tuna, Sword-Fish, Halibout, Battle-board (Salted-Ling), Whiting, White Sole, Chowder-mix, Mussels, Oysters, Organic Salmon (on request) Crab meat, Smoked Coley/Haddock, fresh Prawns and much much more.

Frozen products also available.
A range of freshly prepared products made in the shop in Midleton is available each day to take home. From fish-cakes, Smoked haddock pies, Seafood pies, garlic mussels, garlic mushrooms, cod au gratin and many many more ready for the oven...

The Smoke Salmon sold at the counter is smoked by Ballycotton themselves using time proven methods, if something is perfect then try not to make it better.
Ballycotton Seafood is a family business built on years of fishing experience and knowledge of fish. Suppliers of fresh, smoked and added value fish to the retail and catering market.

Processing Plant:
Garryvoe, Midleton, Co. Cork.

Retail Outlet:
Cork English Market, Cork.

46 Main st., Midleton, Co. Cork.