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Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

The market includes a wide choice of healthy, nutritious and flavorsome vegetables, including Organic selections and fruit.

The Real Olive Company

In the Grand Parade market the range of olives and the produce that they are selling includes chillies, feta cheese, pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, vine leaves, olive oil and dried fruits.

Farmhouse Cheese\'s available in the market

On the Pigs Back in the English Market offers excellent cheese and charcuterie from both home and abroad. Whether its for the home table or a restaurant, they can cater for all your needs. The staff are friendly, professional and most important know about all the products they sell.

Overlooking the fountain from Farm-Gate

A lot of things taste better in Ireland: the Guinness, the farmhouse cheese, the fried pork, the dirty spuds. Since some of us aren\'t ready to ditch the St. Patrick\'s-ian mindset, this has to be one of the Emerald Isle\'s best culinary destinations: The English Market in Cork City, an indoor covered market hall and Ireland\'s answer to the lively, delicious Turkish bazaars. It\'s been around since 1786.

Lunch-time treat with coffee

Today you can find the older traditional stalls, Vegetable, Butchers, Fruit, Fishmongers along side Cheese, Pasta, Health, Coffee, Sandwich, Oriental stalls but to name a few. Produce that would have only been seen on holidays on far off exotic places are now readly available in the market every day.

Cork English Market

It is one of the oldest of its kind. Trading as a market since 1788, it predates most of the other markets like it. Barcelona\'s famous Boqueria market did not start until 80 years after it first started to serve the people of Cork. It has survived the Famine, Revolutions, Wars, Fire and Economic decline..

Heavens Cakes beautiful with coffee

Heavens Cakes has got the right idea when it comes to cakes & savoury tarts.
Just looking at these beautiful tasty treats may put on a few calories, but when you taste them its well worth it.
Trading now in the market for a number of years they have started to give to the locals what used to be seen in cookery books or on the television.

General Info

Feeding You and Your Baby Right From the Start

Most of us know that eating a healthy, balanced diet will help to keep us fit and healthy and prevent disease in later life, but few of us think seriously about our food until we start to plan a pregnancy. That is when we realise that what we eat will affect not just our health but also the health of the baby.

Meat Centre

The meat centre one of the eight remaining butchers located on the first aisle in stall number sixteen run by Kenneth Barrett in the English market.
The stall, over the years has become a very integral part of the fabric of the area being surrounded by various spice shops and coffee shops, tasty wine premises and most of all a happy and welcoming atmosphere.

It was established in 1980 by Ken, who has a very big customer base from the little old lady to the big restaurants as well as supplying the local Chinese restaurants and many other ethnic groups amongst which is the Polish community which in recent years has added to his business. The meat centre is better known as Ken's. His customers are always welcomed with a smile and a constant stream of jokes and funny stories. Coming from a farming background it was inevitable that one day the wheel would go around full circle and today he is breeding the best animals - cattle,sheep and pig's on the rich farm lands of the North Cork area to the dining room table of many a Corkonion.

Being rewarded in recent years with a Bridgestone good food guide entry for the top quality of his meats. His presentation is one of the main aspect of his determination in giving good value and top quality itself. From bodice to sheep tongues, and fresh pickled pigs heads this is all at the meat centre plus many and much more and varied tasty temptations. The friendly staff- Helen and Agniezska look after all the customers from far and wide, near and not so near. Ken's is aIway's worth a visit you might never know what is on his meat menu and joke menu, well both of which are worth the visit. If ken were not a butcher he would certainly be on a stage telling jokes. Cork is lucky to have him because he is one of the best known characters of the English market. Pay him a visit at his stage stall number sixteen, aisle one.