supported by supported SINCE opening almost ten years ago, The Sage Café has steadily built a reputation for fine, fresh food and friendly Sash @No1 FOOD Heritage service. Owned and operated THE charming restaurant on the first floor by Mike Hogan (bass player with of Limerick’s Georgian boutique hotel, No1 Canteen Limerick Strand world famous rock band The Pery Square, offers seasonal, traditional LIMERICK HAM WITH two coveted McKennas 100 Best in AwaRD-winning Executive Chef Tom Flavin and his team Cranberries) and wife Siobhán, menus with a contemporary twist using local During the 19th and early Ireland awards, and three RAI awards, all in surpass expectations by using the freshest local ingredients and located in the heart of ingredients. Focusing on home cooking 20th centuries, Limerick City the last two years, Paul Williams has raised where possible from the riches of the Wild Atlantic Way and Limerick City, The Sage Café with an extra layer of sophistication, this was renowned for its four great the bar for simplicity with his no frills eatery Golden Vale at the Limerick Strand Hotel – multi-award offers an eclectic breakfast and Irish country house in the city creates dishes bacon factories: Matterson’s, Shaw’s, Canteen. Handpicked local suppliers assure winning for its food offering. The AA Rosette River Restaurant lunch menu in a bright, roomy using old-school, time-proven techniques O’Mara’s and Denny’s; which produced first rate produce for the ‘honest fast food’ has one of the best dining views in the city overlooking the dining area plus delicious home with added herbs and leaves grown in Limerick Ham, world famous for its quality Canteen promises. Fast, simple, local, good River Shannon, as does the Terrace Bar, a popular meeting baked desserts and gluten- Sage their kitchen garden. Sash also carries a and healthy – this is what it’s all about. point where Pastry Chef Janet’s famous homemade scones free pastries. THE SAGE CAFÉ carefully selected winelist from unique and flavour. They employed thousands of And great coffee of course. CANTEEN and pastries are hard to resist. LIMERICK STRAND HOTEL WWW.thesagecafe.com boutique producers. SASH RESTAURANT people and gave the city a bustling merchant WWW.wearecanteen.com 30 MALLOW WWW.STRANDhoteLLIMERICK.IE ENNIS ROAD, 67-68 CATHERINE STREET, WWW.ONEPERYSQUARE.com GEORGIAN atmosphere. This inspired an award-winning STREET, LIMErick (085) 215 3212 LIMErick (061) 421 800 LIMErick (061) 409 458 Café QUARTER, LIMErick (061) 402 402 play about that time called ‘Pigtown’. MIllING HISTORY There is a long history of flour milling in Limerick with the most famous mill being Ranks on parlours, chippers, bakeries and more and bakeries chippers, parlours, the Dock Rd (closed since 1983) but there gastro pubs, market stalls, ice-cream ice-cream stalls, market pubs, gastro Tuck into the best of casual also were many older smaller mills in the city. to Limerick’s restaurants, cafés, cafés, restaurants, Limerick’s to Y our local independent food guide guide food independent local our grub or posh nosh in these GOLDEN VALE The county of Limerick is situated in the region known as the Golden Vale, favourite local eateries one of the richest agricultural areas in Ireland for dairy farming and cattle raising. Cornstore RIVER SHANNON ONE of the city’s buzziest restaurants, the Situated at the mouth of the River Cornstore is open seven days a week for Shannon, the longest river in Ireland, and lunch and dinner serving locally sourced 30mins from the coast, means Limerick 1826 Adare seafood and dry aged beef, their specialty has a constant supply of fresh fish. OLD world charm meets modern Irish cooking at 1826 Adare, which is aged in-house. Cornstore’s signature awarded RAI Best Restaurant in Munster 2015. With wife Elaine infusion cocktails ensured they were WILD ATLANTIC WAY at front of house, Chef Wade Murphy’s style is influenced by the voted Ireland’s Best Cocktails 2014, served Limerick is a gateway city to the Wild Atlantic rugged west coast of Ireland, with its abundance of produce. alongside craft beers and world wines. Their Way, which is the world’s longest touring route. His cooking ethos is based on the use of wild, free-range, Cornstore At Home range has the Blas na The WAW crosses into County Limerick at Foynes seasonal and local produce cooked with modern and classical hÉireann stamp of approval for their steak rub, village – the home of the first ever I‘ rish Coffee’. techniques in order to ensure that quality ingredients are the fig whiskey jam and plum whiskey chutney. centrepiece of each dish. 1826 ADARE WWW.1826ADARE.IE CORNSTORE WWW.Cornstore.com MAIN STREET, ADARE, COUNTY LIMErick (061) 396 004 19 THOMAS STREET, LIMERICK (061) 609 000 INSPIRED by French café culture but given a distinctly Irish twist, Café Noir Limerick is having a food moment. Home Ireland taking place in the heart of our offers artisan products, all made in- to Best Restaurant in Munster (1826 Adare city every weekend, a buzzing hive of OUR ProDUCERS join the conversation by using our hashtag house, produced from locally sourced - awarded a Bib Gourmand by the Michelin activity as local Irish produce mixes with ingredients. Excellent rustic breads, Guide for 2016), Best Market Stall in Ireland international specialties in an atmosphere Great Taste and Blas na hÉireann Gold The Treasury LIMERICK LOCAL (Country Choice at the Milk Market), that’s impossible to recreate anywhere #eatinlimerick award-winning quiche, baked goods AN ECLECTIC interior style gives a unique ambiance FOOD PRODUCERS and pâtisserie, bespoke salads, and Irish Cocktail Bar of the Year (Cornstore), Best else. We have grown up with stories of our to The Treasury with a menu focused on fresh, local Food producers across County INSTAGRAM classics like Steak and Guinness Pie are Hotel Restaurant in Ireland (Adare Manor), ‘Pigtown’ and milling heritage and now it and organic produce. Located in the heart of the Limerick include Adare Farm, all the order of the day here. With three Best Ethnic Restaurant in Ireland (Aroi), is time for the next chapter. Limerick has Georgian Quarter, while away the evening with a O’Brien’s Cheese, Cahill’s Cheese, @eatinlimerick daytime outlets stretching to full evening Best Pub Carvery in Munster (Bobby Byrnes) come of age, and our palettes have never glass from the tempting wine list at this welcoming Moon River Chocolate, Pandora Café service on weekends, find them in the and the list goes on. In a host of awards of been as well catered for. From produce to restaurant where ham hock and foie gras terrine or Bell Confectionery, Pónaire Coffee city centre, Castletroy and Raheen. braised pigs cheek with roast scallop are just some of Roasters, Old Irish Creamery Cheese, late, Limerick is coming up trumps. We’re eateries, there has never been a better time FACEBOOK CAFÉ NOIR WWW.CAFENOIR.IE the openers to a delicious experience. THE TREASURY Ballyhoura Mushrooms, Real Italian ROBERT STREET, LIMERICK / lucky to have the oldest weekly market in to #eatinlimerick WWW.THETREASURYrestaURANT.com Foodies Pasta Sauces, Rigney’s Farm /eatinlimerick CASTLETROY / RAHEEn (061) 411 522 Noir 74 O’CONNELL STREET, LIMErick (061) 590 005 pork products, Silver Darlings Herring, The Green Apron preserves, Ballyhoura TWITTER Apple Farm juices, Wild Orchard juices and The Milk Market smoothies, and Treaty City Brewing craft @eatinlimerick Hunt Café beer to name just a few. THE Famous Saturday Food Market at Limerick Milk Market is known throughout the region and nationally as one of NESTLED under the Palladian arches of email: Ireland’s best markets for local artisan producers. With the 18th Century Custom House building, BUYING LOCAL PRODUCE [email protected] over 160 years of history, it is covered by a state of the art which is home to Limerick’s renowned Local produce can be found selling permanent modern canopy but retains all its original charm. Hunt Museum, is the busy Hunt Café in many of our listed eateries, some Many of its food producers have been operating for decades, where Helen O’Donnell and team have of whom produce their own product been serving museum visitors and happy some benefiting from generations of food producing ranges inhouse. Of course, lots of local local customers since the museum launch and market trading, and are known at a national level for produce can be found at Limerick City’s food excellence. Market open Friday through Sunday. in 1997. Ingredients are sourced locally, Milk Market which (in addition to Friday www.eatinlimerick.ie THE MILK MARKET WWW.MILKMARKETLIMERICK.IE and organic where possible. Open seven CORNMARKET ROW, LIMErick (061) 214 782 days a week, they also offer bespoke and Sunday markets) hosts the Famous EAT IN LIMERICK IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION catering for private events in the museum. Saturday Food Market, the oldest PRODUCED BY OLIVIA O’SULLIVAN Curragower HUNT CAFÉ WWW.HUntmUSEUM.com weekly market in Ireland. Also visit The Limerick skyline photo credit: ©Allie Glynn Photography Bobby Byrnes RUTLAND STREET, LIMErick (061) 312 662 Vintage produce image courtesy of Limerick Museum & Archives SITUatED on the banks of the River Shannon across from Urban Co-Op on Mulgrave Street – BOBBY Byrnes (or “Bobby’s” as it is fondly known by its many King John’s Castle, the Curragower, Limerick’s original the first co-operative grocery store in regulars) is one of Limerick’s best loved, award-winning gastro seafood bar, is famous for its first rate creamy chowder While every effort has been made to ensure the information included Limerick; Limerick Craft Hub on Lower and you’ll struggle to find a better chowder in Ireland.