TOONS BRIDGE DAIRY IS BASED IN THE HEART OF THE HISTORIC IRISH ARTISAN FOOD AREA OF WEST CORK.WE WORK WITH LOCAL RAW COW AND SHEEP MILK TO MAKE OVER 12 VARIETIES OF CHEESE. WE SPECIALISE IN SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN CHEESE STYLES, PARTICULARLY PASTA FILATA OR STRETCHED CURD CHEESES.
Our head cheese maker, Franco Picciuolo, hails from the heartland of mozzarella production, and has been making pasta filata cheese since he was eleven. His innovation and experimentation are key to the range of cheeses made by Toons Bridge Dairy.
Toby Simmonds and Jenny Rose Clarke have for many years run The Real Olive Company market stalls all over Ireland. The market stalls have offered the perfect place to get direct feedback from the customers and distribute freshly made mozzarella and ricotta.
We have a shop and pizzeria open in Toons Bridge at weekends where we sell and serve our cheeses, along with our Real Olive products. We also sell and serve many other local products from the West Cork area.
Both shop and cafe are open Friday, Saturday and Sunday - March-December
Cafe : Fridays & Saturdays 12:30-4:00 / 6:00 - 9:00 Sundays 12:30 - 6:00
Shop: Fridays & Saturdays 11:00 9:00 Sundays 11:00 - 7:00
We take bookings for large groups only. In inclement weather, we only have 24 indoor seats, we can only accept bookings by telephone at this time.
We can be contacted during opening hours on 087 3457790, if outside opening hours please leave a message and we will return your call.
The pizzas have been the subject of much heated discussion from our Neapolitan cheese makers, who now firmly approve. Our wood fired oven works at 420C and we make a traditional Neapolitan dough with blends of caputo flour. We top the pizzas with with simple tomato sauce, our own fior di latte mozzarella and produce from The Real Olive Co.
We also do coffee (Mark Kingston Golden Bean), wine (Mary Pawles Organic), beer (Mountain Man) and cider (Longueville). Desserts & Pizzas are made on site by baker extraordinaire Taylor Nelsen.
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