The
Food Hub’s first tenant was Lough Allen Foods, a company passionate
about producing wholesome ready meals. Established in 2006 by award winning
chef Stephen Dowd, the company excels in the manufacture of restaurant quality
ready meals. The team use only the freshest local Irish produce carefully
selected and cooked to ensure that the consumer will enjoy a flavoursome and
fulfilling meal, ready in just 4 minutes! Employing 11 full time staff, the
company now distributes its products in over 400 retail outlets on an all
island basis. They are also sub-contract manufacturers for the food service,
hospitality and retail markets. Exciting new product development is under
way as Lough Allen Foods grows its business - additional production space
has been secured in the Food Hub to facilitate that growth. www.loughallenfoods.com
surf seeds
When
our Dragon’s Den champion Tim Rooney set up Surf Seeds, his innovative
snack food company at the Food Hub, success was just around the corner for
this range of healthy snack foods. Tim has been working on the Surf Seeds
concept for many years. He saw a gap in the market for a more trendy but healthy
snack product.Surf Seeds has emerged with the first resealable seed container
ideal for snacking, iconic packaging, delicious product ranges of savoury
and sweet flavors and the first company to use chocolate and natural seeds
in a snack mix. The Food Hub was the ideal location for Tim, an experienced
chef he held the celebrity TV chef spot on TV3. Access to onsite technical
and funding expertise and world class facilities made the production set up
very straightforward. Now firmly established in The Food Hub the company’s
products are distributed in Ireland through Pallas Foods and Surf Seeds are
cracking export markets as far away as New Zealand. www.surfseeds.com
jb foods
Chef John Burns is operating out of Unit 9 since summer 2010 & has secured contracts to supply Esquire’s Coffee House Chain outlets in Carrick-on-Shannon and Longford as well as further afield. John & team supply a range of deli products, homemade breads, soups, quiches and he specialises in amazing desserts and delicious homemade Gateaux.
Carraig na Breac Smokehouse is is a traditional old style smokehouse owned and operated by Peter and Niamh Curry who share a passion for good food produced with as little human intervention as possible. The kiln they use is a traditional kiln that relies solely on natural airflow; it uses no motors or electricity in its operation. They use only organic wood chips from oak, apple and beech trees and have developed recipes & methods that enhance the natural flavour of the food they produce.
Their dry cured bacon is available in both smoked and unsmoked and also in dry cure streaky and double smoked streak.
Hot Smoked Duck Breast- A generous Lisarra duck breast is brined in a delicate mixture of subtle spices before being hot smoked to seal in the meats natural juices and create a tender, moist and perfectly pink duck breast sure to be to your satisfaction.
Hot Smoked Chicken – A plump Irish chicken breast is brined in a delicate mixture of spices and placed directly into the kiln where it is hot smoked through to provide us with a tender and juicy delicately smoked chicken breast that retains its moisture right through the process.
