La Rousse Foods is an independent, 100% Irish-owned company, specialising in the supply of fine foods to premium food establishments since 1992.
La Rousse Foods provide us with a wide range of fresh, seasonal and innovative produce from a network of local and international producers, always keeping informed of the latest food trends and providing us with the best quality produce.
Kylemore Farmhouse Cheese is a unique, premium Irish farmhouse cheese produced in Co. Galway. Their unique award-winning cheese is inspired from the Swiss alps.
The cheese is fully traceable and sustainable from farm to fork, Bord Bia – Origin Green approved. It has a low carbon footprint and is handmade at the foothills of the Slieve Aughty mountains, Co. Galway.
Shannon's Eco Farm
Shannon Copland is a regenerative farmer in her fifth year of market gardening, with this year being the second year building up “Shannon’s Eco Farm” on her own. The land in which she grows on was conventionally farmed with sheep and beef and has been slowly converted by regenerative methods into a chemical free, no-dig market garden. The farm is fully off-grid relying on rainwater harvesting and solar power to pump water from the nearby spring. She even generates heat to germinate her seedlings by using “hot beds”.
The main output of the farm is hand-harvested, nutritionally dense vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, along with a beautiful selection of cut flowers. She focuses on perennial and ancient heirloom crops as much as possible with a very large emphasis on biodiversity. No herbicides or pesticides are used on the farm as Shannon is a big believer of finding the right balance with nature.
Gaelic growers of Real Vegetables in South Conamara. Seasonal. Local. Beyond Organic.
Established by Aonghus O’Coistealbha in 2013, An Garrai Glas is a small farm of 1.5acres which takes in three to four workers a year to help with operations.
Aonghus’s Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather were Blacksmiths and today a small farm shop sits in the site of the original forge where they worked. Vegetables hadn’t been grown on the land since the 1990’s and the land had never been subjected to high intensity agriculture.
In 2013 Aonghus and his team set about rejuvenating the land which is farmed in an organic and chemical-free way. Being based in the Connemara, the land is rocky and does not allow for the use of tractors, which means no oil being burnt.
Describing themselves as market gardeners they model their farm on small scale agricultural American farms and provide a prime example of regenerative agriculture.
Dooncastle Oysters was established by John Ward in 2006. Beginning as an Assistant to oyster farmers, John learned how to maintain and care for stock. Every farm John worked on taught him something new from which he developed his own technique, focusing on quality.
Dooncastle Oysters are carefully minded in the Grade A Galway Bay waters which are located off Claddaghduff in Clifden in Co Galway. It is here that they develop their highly popular unique flavour.
Rockfield Dairy, which was founded by Aisling and Michael Flanagan, produces Velvet Cloud sheep’s milk, Velvet Cloud sheep’s milk yoghurt and Rockfield sheep’s milk cheese.
All the sheep’s milk is produced on the Flanagan family farm from a flock of Friesland and Lacuane ewes. Due to the mild, wet climate, the ewes can graze on an abundance of grass and clover pastures for almost the entire year.
Gilligan’s Farm is one of the few family-owned farming-and-butcher operations in Ireland.
This allows them to control and maximise the quality and consistency of their beef and lamb as well as providing customers with full traceability of their products.
Their story goes back over 100 years when Tom Gilligan built the family farmhouse and started farming the land in Roscommon. Ever since then, they have been passionate about rearing beef, and in 1990, Tom’s grandson, Padraic Gilligan, opened their first farm shop in Roscommon. The shop had one simple idea – all of the meat was fresh from the family farm.
Producing quality beef is all about caring for your animals. Gilligan’s Farm grow a range of crops on their family farm and work with a dietitian to ensure that their animals have the vitamins and minerals they need.
All of these components are the secret to their award winning, high-quality product.
Moycullen Seafoods situated in the centre of Moycullen, Co. Galway, originates from a long family tradition in the fishing industry and are committed to delivering fresh seafood to the West of Ireland and beyond. They place a strong emphasis on providing the finest quality fresh seafood produce daily at affordable prices to both their retail and wholesale customers.
Most of their fresh fish is locally sourced from the famous Rossaveal fishing port in Connemara, County Galway with their oysters and muscles sourced from nearby Killary harbour on the West coast of Ireland. As they buy fresh from their suppliers on a daily basis, they can guarantee a wide and varied range of quality seafood available to all their customers.
Ali’s Fish Shop has been established since 1987. Ali Jalilvand has been working in the fish industry for over thirty five years. Ali supplies the freshest fish in both his Barna and Henry Street shops daily.
Ali’s Wholesale company, Four Leaf Clover, also provides some of Irelands top restaurants and hotels with fresh fish daily.
At Ali’s fish shop we pride ourselves in providing Galway city with the freshest fish that Ireland has to offer. We also have a selection of locally landed and exotic fish, sourced from countries as far as Sri Lanka, to Greece.
Sliabh Aughty Honey is produced by the Leahy family in Loughrea, Co. Galway. Noel Leahy is the fourth generation of his family to produce the single filtered, unpasteurized, 100% raw honey.
Nestled in the Sliabh Aughty Mountains in the West of Ireland, the land is natural and unspoiled with lush meadows full of wild flowers and herbs, raised bog areas covered with purple heather.
Typical plants to be found in Sliabh Aughty mountains include Pussywillow, Elderberry, Sycamore, Dandelion, Whitethorn, Chestnut, Clover, Blackberry, wild herbs and Heather. The combination of the fantastic landscape and flora gives the honey a unique and pure flavour.