BEST BREAKFAST IN IRELAND try the Farmgate Cafe in Cork's English Market. Great ambiance, great food
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this film we visit the English Market in Cork city centre, not really to see the market itself, I’m saving that for a later video, but instead to have breakfast in a restaurant called the Farmgate Café. I stumbled upon this café when filming the market and was so glad I did.
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We’re entering this old Victorian market from the Grand Parade façade, but we’re making our way down to the back of the market near the Princes Street entrance where our restaurant is to be found. But as we make our way down you can see some of the great local produce that the Farmgate Café takes advantage of when creating its menus.
And then we come to the atrium part of the market which has a mezzanine which accesses the café. You could easily miss this café if you’re not looking out for it. These stairs take you up to the mezzanine and once upstairs you’ve got a nice view of the market below. Once inside you see that the café is bathed in light from enormous windows and from the skylights of the atrium. The interior of the market has an iron framework, which gives the place almost a Parisian feel. It is decorated with glass cases holding copies of poems by Irish poets. And there’s some nice artwork on the walls too. We look at a poem, for example, by our most famous bard, the great Seamus Heaney.
The staff were very friendly and nicely decked out in their uniforms, again a bit Parisian. But it’s the food and coffee we’re here to sample and I must say my espresso and freshly squeezed orange juice got things off to a great start. The décor is very classic: a nicely tiled floor and nice wooden furniture.
As you can see I’ve gone for a scrambled egg with smoked trout, and I can tell you that it was very nice and the whole breaky was not that expensive. And yet you get to enjoy the ambience of this lovely room in this gorgeous Victorian market place.
You can even pick up a book from their library and have a read if you’re killing time.
Your getting about Gregg. We enjoyed the video as always.
…and I enjoyed the breakfast!
I have been in Cork and visited The English Market, but I didn’t visited that cafe . Next time I will have brekfast there,sure!
Oh yeah, Patricia, you’d love it.
Try buying a second hand coat down at the "Coal Key", next time your in Cork, Greg. It's down in the docks area where they held the coal for the ships. I was taken by my brother in-law, known as Mad Mick, for the best breakfast I've ever had . It was in Macroom after a wild night among the traditional music in Kenmare, Easter 1980! The breakfast was in a house that catered to farmers on market days and was located in the town square. Great show!!
I don’t imagine either your coat or your breakfast would be an option 40 years on?
The coat was at least 40 years old by the time I bought it! As for the breakfast, I doubt the family still cater, but you never know. The front door was one of those beautiful Georgian entrance's, in side was the main hallway lined with dark, heavy mahogany tables. There's no way you would have known what it was from out side. Mick just went up, banged on the door, "hello there Mick!", and in we went👍
You just can't beat a bit of local knowledge!
I do miss a good Irish breakfast, it used to be my Saturday treat 😁. The best I ever had was in Rosslare Harbour, next to the Supavalu back in 2017, it came with loads of soda bread and even chips, I didn’t eat for the rest of the day! Looks nice what you had but not what I call a breakfast, need sausages, bacon, eggs, beans, white pudding, black pudding, fried potatoes, soda bread and coffee, damn I want that now! 😅
Ha ha, don’t get me wrong, a big fry up’s great too!
Jumbo breakfast roll!
@@nakedireland Sometimes though you just want something but not so much you can't walk 🤣, so I can see why you went for the omelette. I must admit I rarely eat out these days and will often just have something lighter than a full fry up. The Irish do breakfast so good though, and lunch, and dinner and snacks, its no wonder I gained 2 stone while there 🤣🤣🤣
I love all manor of Breakfast. A roll would do fine as well.
I think I draw the line at chips for breakfast!
The English market to be honest I didn’t enjoy and wrote a tripvisor to say it wasn’t for the traveler, but nice to film and look at , yes thank you again , the day I was in the cafe was closed .
Perhaps if you’d got a nice cup of coffee in the Farmgate cafe that might have changed your mind. But hey, horses for courses as they say.
Have never been down to the third city, any good?
Very good, a nice buzz at night and some really nice places to visit/eat/drink.
Insanely expensive accommodation!!
Check out the prices.. it’s Cork not Cannes….
I find accommodation generally expensive in urban ROI (Cork, Galway and of course Dublin).
Probably the present conditions are unhelpful, but it grates that the same hotels were kept alive through public subvention during Covid are now gouging people to the extent that they are.
Its always the way!