Eat in English Market Quarter, Cork

Nash 19

• ★ 4.1
• Irish Daytime
• €

A Cork daytime institution on Princes Street, steps from the English Market, that has run breakfast and lunch on the city's own rhythms since the 1990s.

Farmgate Cafe

• ★ 4.5
• Traditional Irish
• €

Perched above the English Market on its own gallery, the Farmgate Cafe serves Cork's most traditional dishes with produce bought from the stalls directly.

The Oyster Tavern

• ★ 3.9
• Irish Seafood
• €€

Two-floor tavern at the Market Lane entrance to the English Market, tracing its lineage to 1792 and revived in 2017 with menus built from market produce.

My Goodness

• ★ 4.1
• Café
• €

Order Cold-pressed juice with local apple

An ethical health-food stall at the English Market specialising in vegan, raw, sugar-free, gluten-free and fermented probiotic products. The cold-pressed.

Heaven's Cakes

• ★ 4.5
• Patisserie, French-Irish Cakes, Bespoke Cakes
• €€

Order A seasonal mousse cake slice - the Irish-butter pastry base with French-trained layering is unlike anything.

Run since 1996 by classically trained pastry chefs Joe and Barbara Hegarty, this English Market stall brings French patisserie technique to Cork daily.

The Alternative Bread Company

• ★ 4.3
• Sourdough, Gluten-Free, Irish Soda Bread
• €

Order Organic wholemeal sourdough - baked daily, with seeds pressed into the crust for texture

Established in 1997 by Sheila Fitzpatrick, this English Market stalwart claims the largest range of handmade bread in Ireland. Organic sourdoughs, Syrian.

On the Pigs Back

• ★ 4.4
• French-Irish Bread, Artisan Deli, Charcuterie
• €€

Order A freshly baked quiche with seasonal filling - a reminder that France shaped Cork's food culture more than.

Founded in 1992 by Frenchwoman Isabelle Sheridan, the stall has twice won Best Market Stall in County Cork. Daily savoury pastries, quiches and fresh breads.

Nash 19 Natural Wine Programme

• ★ 4.2
• Wine bar
• €€

Nash 19 overhauled its wine programme in 2023, shifting decisively towards organic, natural and biodynamic producers. Now operating Wednesday to Saturday.

English Market

• ★ 4.8
• Irish, Artisan, Market food
• €

Order Sliced hot spiced beef from Tom Durcan's stall by the fountain - the benchmark of Cork food culture and Cork's oldest surviving street food

The 1788 covered market at Cork's culinary heart, with stalls passed down through generations. Tom Durcan Meats and O'Flynn's Sausages are the anchor trades.

Tom Durcan Meats

• ★ 4.7
• Cork spiced beef, Irish butcher, Craft beef
• €

Order Hot sliced spiced beef from the dedicated counter - a fundamentally Cork experience available only here

Since 1990, the definitive source of Cork spiced beef in the English Market. Tom Durcan runs two stalls side by side - the butcher's counter and a dedicated.

O'Flynn's Gourmet Sausages

• ★ 4.5
• Gourmet sausages, Irish butcher, Street food
• €

Order Cork Boi sausage in a roll - over a century of sausage-making expertise in a single bite.

A fourth-generation family business since 1921, O'Flynn's is Cork's most celebrated sausage maker. Over 50 varieties, with the Cork Boi as the flagship.

On the Pigs Back English Market Stall

• ★ 4.3
• French-Irish deli, Charcuterie, Artisan bread
• €€

Order A quiche slice and a piece of French bread - the most French experience Cork can offer without flying to Brittany

Isabelle Sheridan's French-founded English Market stall, trading since 1992, which won Best Market Stall in County Cork. A counter of Continental.

The Farmgate Cafe

• ★ 4.5
• Irish market food, Drisheen, Traditional Cork
• €€

Order Drisheen on buttered toast as a side to the daily special - a Cork food that has nearly disappeared from restaurant menus; the Farmgate serves it with conviction

Perched on the balcony above the English Market since 1994, the Farmgate is Cork's most storied lunch destination. The market traders supply the kitchen.

Heaven's Cakes Market Stall

• ★ 4.4
• French patisserie, Irish cakes, Market pastries
• €€

Order Seasonal mousse cake slice - the West Cork butter in the pastry base is detectable and makes a difference

Joe and Barbara Hegarty's French-Irish patisserie stall in the English Market, trading since 1996. Classically trained pastry chefs making handmade mousse.

The English Market

• ★ 4.9
• Market
• €

The beating heart of Cork food culture since 1788. A roofed Victorian trading hall where stalls have been passed down through generations, with Tom.

Fab Food Trails Cork

• ★ 4.7
• €€€

Cork's most respected food walking tour since 2012, running 2.5-3 hours through Cork city with the English Market and six to eight artisan stops included.

Cork English Market Guided Food Tour

• ★ 4.5
• €€€

A 2-hour guided tour focusing exclusively on the English Market, sampling gourmet delights including fresh seafood platters, handmade chocolates, Irish.

Cork English Market Food Experience

• ★ 4.2
• €

An informal 'cooking class' format that uses the English Market's traders as educators. Market vendors including O'Flynn's Gourmet Sausages, Tom Durcan Meats.

Tom Durcan Spiced Beef

• ★ 4.7
• Cork spiced beef, Market food
• €

The most distinctively Cork thing you can eat for under €5. Buy a portion of hot sliced spiced beef from Tom Durcan's dedicated counter, take it with soda.

O'Reilly's Tripe and Drisheen

• ★ 4.4
• Cork food heritage, Offal, Traditional Irish
• €

The only producer of tripe and drisheen left in Ireland, an English Market stall since the early 1900s; drisheen is Cork's peppery, crumbly blood pudding.