We will soon be updating 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 shipping@frankhederman.com.

After 20 years trading in Cobh 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 no wardens!

We will continue to trade every Saturday at Midleton Farmers Market and Monday - Saturday at the English Market.

 Happy New Year!

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 Farmers Market (Saturdays) and at the English Market (every day 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, and, after all these years, a proper shop on our premises, open six days a week.