Menu of the Month

Café Paradiso

Lunch and dinner in Café Paradiso offers some of the most magical cooking you can find, where simplicity and subtlety and originality commingle. Book a place for Denis Cotter’s class at Ballymaloe, but first of all book a table at this towering achievement of Irish cooking. Here are current March menus.

Café Paradiso Menu

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marinated olives €3.00

tossed salad €5.00

celeriac & hazelnut soup with leeks & thyme €6.50

beetroot mousse with orange-scented yoghurt and a watercress, pear & walnut salad €8.00

coconut-riceflour pancakes with spiced aubergine & cabbage relish, coriander oil, soured cream and crisped lemon €8.50

salad of buckwheat noodles, cucumber, greens & scallions with a sweet chilli, lime & sesame dressing and sweet potato crisps €8.00

grilled globe artichoke with a sweet pepper aioli rocket and mature oisin goats cheese shavings €9.50

vegetable sushi with tempura of pumpkin & cauliflower, pickled ginger, wasabi and a dipping sauce €8.50

ravioli of pinenuts, currants & sheep’s cheese in a lemon-thyme cream, with spinach and dried tomato €9.00

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almond pastry galette of spinach & knockalara sheeps cheese with a turkish pepper sauce, crushed potato with coriander seeds and green beans with lemon & thyme €17.80

fresh noodles in a ginger broth with stir fried pakchoy, cauliflower, eggroll, scallions, coriander and aduki bean-chilli wontons €17.80

goats cheese, roasted tomato & pinenut charlotte on wilted greens with grilled polenta and puy lentils in basil oil €17.80

wilted purple sprouting broccoli with dried tomatoes, rosemary & garlic, on a corn pancake of leeks, gabriel cheese & puy lentils, with a basil cream and steamed potato €17.80

risotto of spring onions, blue cheese & green peppercorns with roast butternut sauash and braised spring cabbage-tomato pesto rolls €17.80

leek.feta & olive-stuffed roast aubergine with a warm cherry tomato-coriander salsa, a pilaf of couscous & roasted roots, and chickpeas with chillies & cumin €17.80

panfried oyster mushrooms in a sage & cider cream with a potato, parsnip & wild rice cake, caramelised red onions and wilted kale €17.80

one invoice only per table; 10% service charge on tables of 10 or more; sorry, no cigar smoking or pipe-puffing

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Café Paradiso, 16 Lancaster Quay, Western Road, Cork tel: (021) 277939

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