English Market Review

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English Market

  • Address: Entrances on Grand Parade and Princes St., City Center South, Cork City, Co. Cork
  • www.corkcity.ie

Fodor's Review:

Food lovers: head for one of the misleadingly small entrances to this large market in an elaborate, brick-and-cast-iron Victorian building. (Its official name is the Princes Street Market, and it's also known locally as the Covered Market.) Among the 140 stalls, keep an eye out for the Alternative Bread Co., which produces more than 40 varieties of handmade bread every day. Iago, Sean Calder-Potts's deli, has fresh pasta, lots of cheeses, and charcuterie. The Olive Stall sells olive oil, olive-oil soap, and olives from Greece, Spain, France, and Italy. Kay O'Connell's Fish Stall, in the legendary fresh-fish alley, purveys local smoked salmon. O'Reilly's Tripe and Drisheen is the last existing retailer of a Cork specialty, tripe (cow's stomach), and drisheen (blood sausage). Upstairs is the Farmgate, an excellent café.

  • Open: Mon.-Sat. 9-5:30
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