Cork: Fab Food Tasting Trail
Enjoy a relaxed but highly-focused 2.5 to 3-hour stroll through the city center of Cork, stopping at a range of foodie hotspots. Discover local and Irish cuisine, meet...
Pana Bread is a bakery in City Centre, Cork.
Editorially verified May 26, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must order: Turkish pide - a speciality rarely found in Irish bakeries and made with properly fermented dough
Enjoy a relaxed but highly-focused 2.5 to 3-hour stroll through the city center of Cork, stopping at a range of foodie hotspots. Discover local and Irish cuisine, meet...
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Address: Unit G8A, Merchants Quay Shopping Centre, St Patrick's Street, Cork
A Cork institution with multiple city locations. The Patrick Street branch is the most central, baking fresh bread and pastries daily for over three decades.
Order: A breakfast sandwich roll - the doorstep-cut white bread stuffed with bacon and egg is pure Cork morning.
Boutique chocolate cafe in the Edwardian Winthrop Arcade, with truffles, cakes and macarons handmade by chef Brendan Cashman, formerly of the celebrated.
Order: A flight of macarons with a cup of single-origin hot chocolate.
A family-run bakery on the Old Mallow Road in Blackpool, baking since 1981, with a loyal local following for its breads, cream cakes and lunchtime sandwiches.
Order: A sandwich on the house bread, which the bakery bakes specifically for it, with a cream cake to follow.
A Cork institution with multiple city locations. The Patrick Street branch is the most central, baking fresh bread and pastries daily for over three decades.
Order: A breakfast sandwich roll - the doorstep-cut white bread stuffed with bacon and egg is pure Cork morning.
Boutique chocolate cafe in the Edwardian Winthrop Arcade, with truffles, cakes and macarons handmade by chef Brendan Cashman, formerly of the celebrated.
Order: A flight of macarons with a cup of single-origin hot chocolate.
A family-run bakery on the Old Mallow Road in Blackpool, baking since 1981, with a loyal local following for its breads, cream cakes and lunchtime sandwiches.
Order: A sandwich on the house bread, which the bakery bakes specifically for it, with a cream cake to follow.
A south-side neighbourhood gem in Ballinlough with a devoted following. The early-morning bread run starts at 07:00 and sells out by midday at weekends.
Order: The morning pastry selection before 9am - arrive at opening for the croissants and pain au chocolat while the batch is still warm
The baking arm of Cork's iconic wholefood cooperative since 1982. The in-house bakery produces daily loaves of spelt, rye and seeded wholemeal for the deli.
Order: A spelt scone with the lunch special - the bakery's allergen transparency is Cork's best.
A family bakery in Wilton Shopping Centre, baking the full Irish bread range daily alongside cream cakes and freshly filled rolls for the lunch trade.
Order: Brown soda bread, fresh from morning bake - a reminder that Cork brown bread needs no improvement