Foodies are loving this Cork City restaurant’s hyper-local Wednesday specials
Treating yourself to a midweek meal in town?
If you like to support local, you can do it twice over one dinner at ORSO in Cork City, where the menu spotlights a key local producer every Wednesday evening throughout the summer months.
The focus is on the English Market vendors and producers that the restaurant has worked with for more than a decade.
Chef Hannes Von Der Fecht creates a special two-course menu that runs alongside the à la carte offering each Wednesday, featuring dishes that combine the finest local produce with ORSO’s signature spice and flavour.
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First up is a collaboration with Tim Mulcahy of the Chicken Inn, using his free-range, organic chicken. For starters, there is ‘Chicken Kofta skewer, drizzled with sunflower seed puree and crispy chicken skin’ with ‘Roast Organic Marinated Chicken leg, served with coconut rice in a lemongrass spiced sauce and peanut rayu’ as a main course.
Produce from Ballycotton Seafood will be the focus of the Wednesday specials in July.
Known for its flavour-forward, seasonal approach, you can also expect to see the best of the summer harvest from Churchfield Community Gardens elsewhere on the menu. Fruits and herbs from hyper-local growers are used in-house to make cordials, spritzes, and cocktails that ORSO has developed to complement its menus.
Spices are prepared in-house daily, bread is freshly baked to order from ORSO’s stone oven, and that’s not all; as well as a tight wine list, ORSO serves beer made by its sister restaurant and brewhouse, Elbow Lane.
