specialist food drink sligo

Cosgrove's is a most wonderful shop, the sort of fabulous trove of good things which, if it was in almost any other town in Ireland, would be celebrated as a classic example of just what a country grocery store can aspire to. In Sligo, where standards are high, they almost take it for granted. Outsiders, however, who visit it for the first time, are bowled over by it. The distinctiveness of the shop, with its lingering air of craftsmanship in the art of selling, and its pleasure in painst...

The owner has the distinct distinction, not to mention the distinct advantage, amongst wine sellers in Ireland, of having made wine when he lived in Germany. He worked vintages in a friend's vine-yard in Diermstein, near to Laumershiem, in the Rheinpfalz, a small operation which produced 3,500 litres a year from grape varieties such as Riesling (the Pfalz has more hectares planted with Riesling than any other German wine region), Muscat and Blauer Portugiese. The influence of his homeland...

A great delicatessen, and a whole lot more beside....

One of the great success stories of Sligo in recent years....

One of the secrets of Sligo food people is that they not only talk about doing things they see that things get done. Things happen here, people evolve their businesses, they get better and better, and there is no better example of this knack of pregress in action than Tir na nOg....