The younger retail sister of the McMahon family’s excellent Café Rua on New Antrim Street, this brilliant deli is first port of call for many food lovers visiting the town and stocks a wide range of delicious foods and ingredients.
The shop is a delight, especially if you happen to call when one of the artisan suppliers is doing a promotion. International speciality foods feature too, of course, but the McMahons are renowned for supporting quality Irish producers and, among the many local goodies on sale, you’ll find Stephen Gould’s finest mixed salad leaf selection, from Headford; the excellent Nadurtha Pasta from remote Bangor Erris near(ish) Belmullet; the Butler family's unique Cuinneog country butter, from nearby Balla, Castlebar; Westport Grove jams and relishes (and an unusual quince paste) and the very successful Achill Island Sea Salt.
Excellence from slightly further afield is represented by superb products such as St Tola Organic Goat’s Cheese from Inagh, Co Clare, Connemara Smokehouse smoked salmon and tuna from Ballyconneely, Co Galway and the super Castlemine Farm pies and other products from Co Roscommon.
Most local of all, there are the foods they make themselves - including gorgeous freshly baked breads (their Dillisk Soda Bread took the Irish Bread Award category at our 2020 Irish Breakfast Awards) and a range of chutneys, relishes and dressings – and they also sell non-food items like cookbooks and the beautiful Bunbury chopping boards from Lisnavagh Estate, Co Carlow. And that’s only the beginning.
