Welcome to the home of traditional smoked salmon in Cork, where you can buy smoked salmon and seafood, including Irish wild salmon, for home delivery. Frank Hederman has been smoking fish here for over forty years, and our dedicated smoke house team now shares 65 years of expertise in smoking salmon and seafood.

All of our cold smoked salmon is handmade in small batches in Ireland’s only traditional timber smoke house, where fish is hung for smoking. This natural smoking method gives the smoked salmon great depth of flavour and character, as well as making it deliciously lean and tender, like no other.

We have now updated our website for the tour season March-October 2025.
If you would like an out-of-season private tour or lunch please contact the smokehouse directly privatetours@frankhederman.com

BUY HEDERMAN SMOKED SALMON ONLIINE

Enjoy browsing and shopping online.
We hope to welcome you to the smoke house soon.

Thanks to a good catch of Irish wild salmon in summer 2024 we still have a small quantity of smoked wild Irish salmon available. It is frozen at -40C as soon as it is caught in season, a temperature which preserves its quality, and it will be smoked to order for sale online and at the English Market. If you are interested, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 “Savvy fish fanciers in Ireland prize his smoked wild salmon above all others” Johnny Apple, New York Times

SUSTAINABLE SMOKED SALMON

We also have our benchmark range of the best smoked salmon made with Irish fish produced sustainably by MOWI  on the wild Atlantic way on the west coast of Ireland – We are not organically certified ourselves, but our only ingredient is Irish salmon, cured with salt and flavoured with smoke. All of our fish is guaranteed Irish.

 “Incredible smoked salmon from @hedermansmokehouse in Belvelly, picked up on a recent visit to Cork” Marie Claire Digby, Irish Times

Belvelly Smoke House is our pride and joy. We are by no means the only smokers but we do have Ireland’s only authentic smoke house, and the only place where fish, including wild Irish salmon are hung for smoking. It makes all the difference.
The smoke house plays such a vital role in such a traditional process that it is now protected by EU legislation. It also produces utterly delicious smoked fish, whether it is wild or cultivated.

Frank is self-taught, and has passed on his skills to Dan and Tom, who share a further 30 years of smoking experience. We are now in our fifth decade of producing smoked food – mostly smoked fish – but we also add delicious flavour to butter, spices, nuts and so on.

In 2022, which marked forty years in business, Frank became the first person in Ireland to win the Walter Scheel Medaille, a European award that recognises his outstanding contribution to local food culture. In the last 20 years we have grown from a team of three to a team of ten.

Frank and Caroline have always been champions of food and farmers markets, and we still trade at Midleton Market (Saturdays) and the English Market (everyday, except Sunday). Until Brexit red tape put an end to
trade with our closest neighbours, we enjoyed years of wonderful business with restaurants, food-halls and private clients in the UK. Our focus is now on home soil in Ireland and on the European continent.

 In 2024 we launched the refurbished smoke house, Tasting Room, courtyard and walled garden, all designed and developed by Caroline in the years since Covid. We now offer public and private tours and have a lovely space for private lunches and events. Finally, after all these years, we have a proper shop on our premises, open Monday to Friday (and at the weekends, if you find us at home)

Stunning gift-boxed smoked salmon fillets make very special gifts that than be sent on your behalf to addresses in Ireland and Europe – the website allows you to compose gift messages that we will handwrite for you.

After 20 years trading in Cobh every week, Frank will be starting a new Friday job at the smoke house! Join him and Caroline for breakfast, or a cup of tea and your weekly smoked salmon.
We are also open Monday - Thursday and have click & collect service.
There is plenty of parking and there are no wardens!
We will continue to trade every Saturday at Midleton Farmers Market, and Monday - Saturday at the English Market.

 Happy New Year!