Welcome to the home of traditional smoked salmon in Cork, where you can buy smoked salmon, including Irish wild salmon, for Christmas delivery from the comfort of your own home. Frank Hederman has been smoking fish here for over forty years, and our dedicated smoke house team shares another 30 years of expertise in smoking salmon.

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.

 Our website is now ready for you to place smoked salmon orders for Christmas. Please click on the link to our shop:

SHOP FOR HEDERMAN SMOKED SALMON

 We hope you enjoy the approach to Christmas and beyond!

 Caroline & Frank Hederman

and the HEDERMAN SMOKE HOUSE TEAM

Thanks to a good catch of Irish wild salmon in 2024 we have more plentiful stock and a good choice of smoked wild salmon sizes this year. The relative bounty of this tightly protected resource is also reflected in our fair prices for wild salmon. We hope it means more people can enjoy this quintessential Irish luxury at Christmas.

 “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

We are offering our beautiful gift-boxed smoked salmon in fillets… and gift vouchers which can be used to purchase smoked fish or food tours and tasting platters online… please read more below and on our TOURS PAGE. And we can offer Christmas gifts of smoked seafood selection boxes.

SMOKED SALMON GIFTS & CORPORATE GIFTS

 We can also ship handmade smoked salmon on your behalf to addresses in Ireland and Europe – the website allows you to compose gift messages that we will handwrite for you.

NEW TASTING ROOM NOW OPEN for CLICK & COLLECT AND CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

 You are also extremely welcome to visit our brand new tasting room at the smoke house near Cobh, County Cork, to collect online purchases of smoked salmon and seafood.

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 recipients’ 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, the English Market, Cobh and Mahon Point. 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, and, after all these years, a proper shop on our premises, open six days a week.