Organico Bantry

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Jan de Vries visited Organico recently and gave 53 of our lucky customers a free consultation. Jan is one of the world’s foremost natropath’s and it was amazing to have him visit Bantry. His insight into health, nutrition and herbal medicine is humbling.

Impress your guests with vegetarian delights from Organico Cafe’s kitchen!

Organico Cafe in Bantry is the perfect place to order your party food to make having guests enjoyable and hassle-free. We can offer most of our menu on a catering basis including our ever popular savoury tarts with fillings ranging from Cashel Blue Cheese and Brazils to fetta, roasted seasonal vegetables and black olives. We can also provide curries, chillies, bakes, salads, cakes and deserts such as Chocolate Tart (made with Jaime Oliver’s receipe – yum!)

Some possible ideas are listed below:

• 3-Bean Vegetable Chilli, (we would reccemmend serving this with brown rice, grated cheddar & tsatziki, finely sliced onions and corriander)
• Summer Tart (roasted cherry tomatoes & fetta) – we normally serve this with salads – if you like we can put aside some fantastic leaves grown for us by Theo on his Demeter-certified Organic Farm in Gkengarriff; and perhaps some wild rice or quinoa salad.
• Thai Vegetable Curry – this dish is so rich and flavourful that it rarely needs more than some brown Jasmin rice and corriander as a garnish.
• Courgette Fritters – these light and tasty fritters are always the first to sell out in Organico Cafe and we would reccommend serving them with lots of fresh leaves, some tasty organic tomatoes and some quinoa salad ( this salad is very similar to couscous while being gluten free and packed with protien and minerals.
• Organico Pizza – always a favourite with kids and adults alike! We make a spelt base and top it with an organic tomato sauce, roasted veggies and lots of cheese.

Salads

• Carrot & fresh sprouts with a light tahini dressing
• Brown rice with a yoghurt/tahini dressing
• Quinoa with mint & cherry tomatoes
• Thai noodles with a spicy peanut dressing
• Mixed beans with a sweett chilli dressing
• Marinated chickpeas with a garlic/lemon dressing
• Mixed wild and red rice with peppers, herbs and a yoghurt/tahini dressing

If you contact us a few days before a small dinner party and at least a week before a large event, we will try to cater for your needs using the freshest local or organic ingredients.

Main meals cost from €5 – €9 per person depending on whether you wish us to prepare the accompanyments. Salads are approximately €2.50 per portion. These prices are for food collected from Organico Bantry.

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Organico Cafe is available for hire for evenings. The cafe is light and airy and is ideal for intimate groups who need privacy. It is not suitable for events that would require a large amount of clear floor space but is suitable for sit down groups or talks.

The cost of the room varies from winter to summer and also varies if the event is a closed group or is open to the public. Daily hire for Sunday can also be arranged.

Night time hire for a closed group, where the group leader has Public Liability insurance. and the room is hired for at least 6 weeks, is €25/night during the summer and €30/night during the winter. Groups can start from 7.30 and run until 10.30 or thereabouts.

If the event is open to the public we need to be ‘open’ as a Cafe so we need to have at least one staff member present. In that case the cost is €75 for up to 30 people in the summer (7.30 – 10.30) and €80 in the winter. The winter cost increase is to cover heating costs.

If the event is to attract over 30 people we would advise having more than 1 staff members in which case the cost is an extra €50/staff for the 3 hours.

In the case of the Cafe being open, we serve teas, coffees, and sweet snacks, and wine if it is suitable.

The prices mentioned cover room hire, water, staff if applicable, lighting and heating if applicable. A public liability insurance certificate is needed for closed groups. If we are open our own insurance covers the evening.

Contact us on (027) 51391 or on info@organico.ie.

Our mission in Organico is quite simple – to supply quality organic food at an affordable price. Organico Bakery is part of what makes us proud to be in business – we bake with stoneground organic flour which makes our bread healthy and nutritious. We also bake extensively with spelt – our customers tell us that before they found our spelt bread they couldn’t eat bread without their digestion suffering. When we found that so many people were more healthy eating spelt, we started making all our cakes, brownies and cookies from spelt, as well as our pasties, pizza bases and scones.

We make 4 spelt yeast loaves – white and brown, and seedy white and seedy brown; 2 Californian Sourdough – white and brown; and our ‘Health Bread’ which is pure wholemeal spelt sourdough packed with seeds and spirulina. The Health Bread keeps for a week and is hugely popular with people who like nutty tasting nutritious bread.
To keep the cost of our breads affordable (while still paying our devoted baking team a reasonable wage) we try to keep the wastage down, so we nearly always sell out early in the day. If we don’t we sell the ‘next day’ bread at 20% off. even though it is still perfectly fresh compared to the ‘fresh’ old breads they sell in the supermarkets!

Our bread is mixed totally by hand, and we let it rise for much longer than most modern bakerys which gives a far superior texture and aids digestion. Our Health Bread takes 5 hours to prove! If kept airtight, our breads have great lasting power – at least 3 days.

We often take orders to fill people’s freezers if you don’t live in the area but would like to eat our bread regularly. Please call us on (027) 51391 to place and order or to enquire.