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Cuisine
Simple
Food Prices
Lunch Main Course from €7.95House Wine From €16.50
Food Serving Times
Monday 9.00 - 16.00Tuesday - Saturday 9.00 - 17.30
Closed Sundays
Seasonal Closures
Bank Holiday Mondays. 25 December – 01 January
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Restaurants & PubsCafes
Shops
Deli
Gourmet Food
Gourmet & Deli
Facilities
Children welcomeWine
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Food & FamilyFood & Shopping
Setting
Historic Village
Style
AtmosphericBuzzy
Casual
Other Info
Take Away available of both fresh and freezer food and meals.Grangecon Café and Foodstore
Blessington | WicklowWhen Richard and Jenny Street first opened their little cafe in the charming village of Grangecon, north of Blessington, in 2002, they had no grandiose notions of food ethics, ethos and foodie etiquette. Rather, they simply wanted to provide good grub with the guiding principles of quality, home-cooked and where possible, organic. Their move to Blessington in April 2004, saw a continued commitment to these tenets, he at front-of-house, she in the kitchen and the menu truly reflects all that is good and great on the Irish culinary landscape in 2007.
Their second incarnation is in a delightful building, formerly the old Blessington schoolhouse and latterly a couple of ill-fated restaurants. They have done a magnificent job of bringing it right back to a very class-roomy type feel, with simple wooden tables and chairs and blackboards in amongst some fine art on the walls. The effect is of a contemporary country kitchen, simple and stark but not austere.
A few observations inspire confidence from the outset. The coffee is Illy, the drinks menu offers Fentiman's ginger beer and Crinnaughtaun Apple Juice (from Cappoquin) and all the food, including a dazzling array of breads and cakes are made on site. We start with bowl of delicious leek and potato soup, perfectly seasoned and served with some of the best brown soda, I have ever tasted. Lamb goulash, on a veritable mountain of creamy buttery mash, was tasty and comforting, the lamb, juicy and tender. Homemade organic sausage rolls were a million miles from the processed variety, the pork comes from Jens Krumpe of Terryglass Organics, and was mixed with herbs and wrapped in fantastic flaky pastry. The real star of the show was a stunning succulent spinach and Feta pie, again encased in that perfectly executed pastry (it’s made with organic flour and it really shows). Everything was served with a simple salad from Castleruddery organic farm.
We finished with a selection of sweet treats from the remarkable pastry counter. Lemon tart (with homemade lemon curd!) was zingy and delicious, still warm tea-brack and buttery flapjacks were both flawless and divine and all washed down with some of those cheeky ginger beers and deliciously tart homemade lemonade.
Grangecon also do a range of take-away home-cooked dinners for the busy or the lazy. Check it out!
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Kilbride RoadBlessington
Co Wicklow
+353 (0) 45 857892
Email: grangeconcafe@eircom.net
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