Welcome to the home of traditional smoked salmon in Cork, where you can buy smoked salmon, including Irish wild salmon, for delivery at home. 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 our cold smoked salmon is handmade in small batches in Ireland’s only traditional timber smoke house, where fish are 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.

Thanks to those concerned for your tremendous support at Christmas and for your lovely letters and comments. It makes all our work worthwhile. Some of you have even been ordering more for January dinner parties – we must follow suit! 2026 is off a chilly start, so we have been busy making hot chowders, smoked salmon gratin and fish pies – all comforting and delicious.

Don’t forget smoked salmon (and all the other seafood we smoke) is not just for Christmas. It serves as a special ingredient for weekend breakfasts, midweek suppers and even in the dreaded diet plans (high protein, omega 3, or properly balanced with a nice glass of wine from time to time).

 The Tasting Room – or our shed as some people like to call it -  is cosy-warm as usual and open Monday to Fridays. It’s available for private parties and tours especially if you like to linger over lunch that someone else has made.

 The English Market - it’s one of our many new year’s resolutions to do a few repairs and refreshments to our shop, but we’ll be open all our usual days. Midleton Market sets up again on Saturday 10 January  to trade week in week out for our 26th Year! 
We offer Loyalty Cards for use in the Tasting Room and English Market and they can be used any time except the month of December.

We’re trialling a few more flavours with our hot smoked salmon to give you a change. Spicing has always worked brilliantly for the mackerel fillets – though the purists insist on plain. It’s your free choice!

 Cook’s Tours – We’re looking forward to Ballymaloe’s first Cook’s Holiday tour with Rachel Allen in the mad March season. The smoke house is open to all cooks with curious minds. Lunch tours that are open to everyone will start on…. Tours can also be booked for private groups when the place is all yours for the afternoon.

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