Cork Spiced Beef appears as a signature dish in 1 Ireland cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cork Spiced Beef · Cork
Cork's most distinctive food tradition: beef cured for one to two weeks in a dry rub of allspice, juniper berries, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves and brown sugar, then slow-boiled and served cold in thin slices.
A Cork English Market tradition since the 18th century, when spices arrived through Cork harbour from Caribbean and Asian trade routes. The Cork cure layers black pepper, allspice, juniper, cloves and brown sugar onto silverside beef across 10 to 14 days, a recipe distinct from the saltier English salt-beef. Tom Durcan, in business at the English Market since 1996, is the city benchmark and ships nationally at Christmas; Bresnan's of Cornmarket Street is the older counter, founded 1929. The dish remains on the Munster Christmas table and is increasingly featured on Cork city restaurant menus as a starter sliced thin with horseradish.
Where to eat in Cork:
- Tom Durcan Meats
- English Market