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...

The comment below is from Bioforce (the company who make Echinaforce and other helpful herbs). It is based on news in the papers in England but we think it is just as applicable over here... Helping Heart Health The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England is urging GPs to prescribe more statins to patients at risk...

Update: 19/05/2026 The EU is still proposing to harmonise food supplements. This will restrict the sale of lots of supplements for sale in Ireland. Please join the campaign at saveoursupplements.ie and sign the petition here to help prevent this. Why? Irish people live in a rainy Atlantic climate - that is vastly different to the Mediterranean! WE HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS...

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...

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...

Well, from our years of both taking and recommending various vitamin and mineral supplements, we would, as Healthfood Shop owners, say ''No''. And certainly not under normal circumstances. Water, salt, aspirin, the sun... all these can kill, if you drink/eat/swallow/bathe too much. If a person attempted to live on vitamins alone, they would not live very long. That is why...

Ingredients 1 red onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 leek, finely chopped 1 red pepper, chopped into small lengths 1 medium sized sweet potato, peeled and chopped into roughly 3cm cubes 300-400g butternut squash, peeled and chopped to roughly the same size as the sweet potato 350g Passata 100 ml water 1 organic stock cube (Kallo are...

In season, gluten and dairy free! 250g Wild garlic - mix of leaves and flowers 50g toasted sunflower seeds 50g cashew nuts 3 generous tsps of miso Olive oil 1 tbsp lemon juice salt and pepper to season Toast the sunflower seeds and leave to cool. Roughly chop the wild garlic. put all the ingredients in a blender, starting with...

A new Irish Slow Food Convivium has been set up in Bantry, West Cork. The committee is made up of Anne O'Brien, from O'Connor's Seafood restaurant, Eileen O'Shea, from The West Lodge Hotel, Val Manning from Manning's Emporium Ballylickey, Cathleen Carter from Bantry House, Hannah Dare from Organico Bantry and Letty Baker, former Mayor and Convivium Leader. The first event...

'Mollie' from the exhibition entitled 'Womanagh' Showing from the 18th of March to the end of April 2008 In Organico Cafe Bantry. Martha on her own work: ''My work is a homage to the teachers of my past, the farm helpers and local women who visited and helped my mother in the house.Their understanding of the daily running of a...