Organico Bantry

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.

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

Organico Cafe is delighted to once again welcome Lorraine Bacchus to the Cafe with her new work for 2007. Lorraine has had a number of other shows since she exhibited with us last winter (click here) and her work has matured and become, if such a thing is possible, even more beautiful. The pieces are mostly oil on canvas, though there are some sketches as well. The theme is Nudes, and the predominant colours are pale – white, with washes of green, blue and greys bringing an ethereal dream-like quality. They are perfect for this time of year when we are experiencing such beautiful vibrant weather and it is somehow fitting to have soothing and calming art on the walls.

The piece pictured above is called ‘transparent’ and is oil on canvas, roughly 25cmx60cm (I don’t have the measurements – that’s a guess). It is selling for €1000.
Organico Cafe is open from 9.30 – 5.30 Monday – Friday; and 9.30 – 5pm on Saturdays. Come and enjoy a delicious vibrant organic lunch and take a look at Lorraine’s work at the same time. The paintings will be with us until the end of the month.

Fair trade fortnight in Bantry, 2007, was a resounding succes. The Fair trade committee, including Liz Ewing from Organico, put together several very entertaining events. The main focus was on the visit paid by Renwick Rose from the Windward Islands Farmers Association, who came to Bantry on the 7th of March and had lunch in Organico Cafe before giving a talk on fair Trade in the Youth Cafe. Renwick was very enthusiastic about Ieland’s commitment to Fair Trade and said the ‘wherever I have had the privilege of visiting there has been a spontaneous outpooring of friendship and solidarity in keeping with the principles of the Fair Trade movement’. He described fair trade as a way of ‘contributing to the practical expression of a new trading relationship between consumers and producers based on social justice’.

The Fair Trade committee also held a delightful Cookery Demonstration profiling Fair Trade produce and hosted by John and Sally McKenna, as well as a coffee morning.

Organico Shop, Glengarriff Rd., Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone +353 (0)27 51391

Organico Cafe is delighted to be involved with the West Cork Literary Festival again this year. the Cafe will be the venue for the Literary Club, which will offer organic food and wine, as well as music, games and a literary quiz. We will open from 6pm – 9pm Monday to Thursday.
The West Cork Literary Festival is a festival for writers and readers alike and attracts at least 150 people to Bantry every year. The programme is very varied – the 2007 workshops range from song writing to media, poetry, and sportswriting – and this year Gavin Kostick of the Fishamble Theater Company is to tutor a playwriting Workshop. Elenaor McEvoy is coming to give the Songwriting Workshop as well as a live performance.
From what we have seen in Organico Cafe the Festival is throughly enjoyed by all the attendees. Many of those who are accepted for publication in the Fish Anthology come and of course the winner (of the €10,000 prize) is sure to attend. The comapartively small numbers mean the Festival creates an intimate and friendly atmosphere, and the Workshop attendees get a lot of hands on attention from the leaders.

For more information on the programme for 2007 click here