Beef tomatoes are great for this recipe because of their size however any large organic tomato will do. You can play around with the fillings changing the cheese and herbs and veggies to suit you tastes and what you have available at home.
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For March and April 2010 we are offering free Wi-Fi in our Cafe outside of Lunchtime (so not between 12.30 and 2.30). So if you have your own laptop, feel free to come a browse (and try out our tempting snack and coffee menu while you’re at it!)
At 12.30 we might ask you to move tables or come back later…but that’s the only catch!
If this works we will continue…
If you are visiting Bantry for the 2009 West Cork Music Festival there have been a few changes in the town since last year…
In terms of eating out, El Gitano’s has changed hands and has opened as Currivan’s, offering both day and night time menus at very reasonable prices. Bantry House is no longer doing evening meals (though they still offer a day-time cafe and a wonderful walk around the gardens – unmissable).
Of course Organico Cafe is still open until about 5pm Monday – Saturday for the Festival Week offering wonderful, mostly vegetarian food, broadband and rgeat coffee and cakes (all possible to take out also). Call 027 55905 to arrange take away.
If you have a free afternoon a visit to Val Manning’s Emporium is really worth it – Val is an expert on Irish cheeses and serves fantastic wines and cheese boards in front of his premesis (to find him just head out the road to Glengarriff for about 5k – he’s on the right in the Ballylickey area so you are going slow anyway, you can’t miss him)
If you feel like a bit of papmering during your visit Anam Chara offer facials, massages and many other treatments from their new premesis on the way up to the Library.
Despite the recesion Bantry is very busy and we hope you will have a fantastic week’s stay here with us.
• Lunch Time Special – Main Course plus tea/coffee for €10.00
• We are developing Home Pizza Kit for those Friday nights when you need something quick but want to avoid the freezer section.
• Take Away Fresh Delicious Organic Soup €3.50
• Take Away Organic Fair Trade Coffee €1.50
• Monday’s Bread Offer 2 Wholemeal loaves €3.00
In the shop selected Pataks curry pastes are on offer at €1.99 instead of the normal Rsp of €2.83, and the Red and the Green Alpro Soya milks are on offer at €1.29 instead of our normal Rsp of €1.86! We also still have our ‘cost price rice’ offers of 5 kg of Organico Brown short/long grain for €10.00 and 5 kg of Fair Trade Organic brown Basmatti for €15.00.
Combine lunch in Organico and a Town Concert in Bantry this week during the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. On Wednesday the 2nd of June enjoy the Lambay Piano Trio (one of the pieces is Cafe Music by Schoenfield, on Thursday the McGuiness Quartet, and on Friday the Kelly Wind Quartet. Saturday finishes up with Walters String Quartet. All tickets are €5 on the door.
Lunch in Organico is available from 12; we serve a refreshing range of salads, soups and hot meals. See here for more on our menu.
Exhibition Showing in Organico Cafe, 3ed to 27th June
Opening Thursday 5th June 6.30pm , Organico Cafe
Alison Trim is a local artist, living in Bantry for the past 13 years. She is best known for her work with children and young people through her role as Schools and Youth Coordinator for West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. She is currently studying in the third year of the BA in Visual Art course with Dublin Institute of Technology on Sherkin Island. She has previously exhibited in group shows with West Cork Arts Centre, The Courtyard Gallery, Middleton, Talbot 101, Dublin and was shortlisted for the Markowicz medal award at United Arts Club, Dublin in 2005.
Scorch and Surge.
These two canvases explore two of the biggest fears that climate change confronts us with, flooding, or desertification. The images combine layers of information based on many different sources of information about weather, tides, migration patterns, including maps, charts, and photographs. The more we seek to understand the way our planets systems work the more complex it becomes, and when it comes down to it, all most of us really understand is whether we feel wet, or dry, hot or cold. Weather is natural, beautiful, complex, dangerous, known and unknown, a wealth of contradiction.
Stones
“A thing is a hole in a thing it is not” Carl Andre This work is inspired by a collection of stones the artist gathered during walks on Snave Beach, Coomhola, over the past ten years. “There is a mystery to me about these stones that suggests a breaching of boundaries. Stone is a solid material, in fact emblematic of solidity, and yet something has passed through leaving a hole through the core of its solidity. It almost feels as if we should be able to see the stones insides, or that it has been violated, and yet the shape of the stone itself feels very contained, as does the negative shape of the hole. Alongside the documentation of these stones my painting work had become very much to do with, surface, and layers, and the notion of ‘containment’ has recurred in my practice for some time now. This painting brings these two strands of my practice together, using the shapes of the stones with a surface which feels almost permeable, like skin, or almost ready to burst like ripe fruit.”
Organico Cafe is delighted to welcome a new exhibition of illustrations from a children’s book called ‘Into The Serpent’s Jaws’ by Spark Deeley.
Spark Deeley was born in Birmingham in 1961. She studied in Cardiff, South Wales, graduating with an honours degree in Fine Art. After much travelling, she is now settled in Cork, Ireland, and divides her time between illustration, fine art, mural art and community art projects.
Her career has been a broad one. She has held one woman shows, taken part in a number of selected group shows, established a community print training centre, as well as instigating and contributing to a variety of artistic projects throughout Ireland, the U.K., Spain and the U.S.A.
‘Into The Serpents Jaws’ is Spark Deeley’s first illustrated book for older children and adults. Part fable, part art book, it symbolically tells the story of a woman who has the courage to embrace her fears, allowing them to become her allies. As the woman crawls with trepidation through a glowering jungle, she meets the face of her own fear in the guise of a serpent and a jaguar. Her fear becomes reality when the serpent consumes her, beginning a journey of transformation within the protection of its jewelled skin.
Richly illustrated with exquisite ink paintings throughout, the images perfectly compliment the theme by slowly transitioning from black and white into full colour.
An unusual book full of mystery and depth, which speaks to all ages of our potential to grow stronger through challenging times.
‘Into the Serpent’s Jaws’ was launched at Tigh Fili, Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll’s Quay, Cork,
on Friday 9th November 2007.
The book, as well as prints of the art works, will be available to buy in Organico Cafe from the 10th of May.
To find out more about Spark Deeley’s work, visit her website: www.sparkdeeley.com
Organico Cafe in Bantry has high speed broadband internet access in it’s Cafe.
We have state of the art Dell Optiplex PC’s and also Laptop connection stations. So if you need high speed internet access in Bantry, call in to Organico on Glengarriff Road and enjoy an organic coffee while you surf the net…
Our Cafe is spacious and full of light. Enjoy browsing the web in a comfortable enviroment with friendly staff and delicious snacks made in our bakery.
Organico Cafe, Glengarriff Rd., Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone +353 (0)27 55905
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.
Organico Cafe is West Cork’s premier organic eaterie. We are focusing on high quality, nutritious, energising vegetarian food, both for take away and for breakfast or lunch. Our food is made from fresh organic ingredients every day, and contains high amounts of fresh organic sprouts, organic seeds, cold pressed oils and organic grains and pulses.
Our menu changes every day but always contains a choice of hot meals and salads. We also offer fresh organic juices, fair trade organic coffee and teas, and a range of cakes and snacks from our bakery next door.
If you enjoy good health or are trying to reclaim it, and also enjoy good healthy tasty food, come and visit us! We are in Bantry, which is just over an hour from Cork and is a great town to visit (especially on a Friday when we have a very lively Market – weather permitting).
Organico Cafe, Glengarriff Rd., Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. +353 (0)27 55905 Open Monday to Friday 9.30 – 5.30 and Saturdays 9.30 – 5pm.
Organico Shop, Glengarriff Rd., Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone +353 (0)27 51391