Top Review in Bridgestone Irish Food Guide for Scallys

"Twenty Five years of doing the good thing, that's what Eugene Scally and his team have managed to do in Clonakilty.  Their modus operandi and their buzz-words are the very polar opposites of how conventional supermarket theory works.  Instead, they talk about community, about service, about respect, about the local harvest.  This is no surprise.  Mr Scally comes from a farming family, one of nine children, and he talks poetically about "the apples, the ream, the great taste of great food produced simply on a farm".  So you see, it's in the blood, it goes down to the bone, and to the very marrow.  Scally's offers the poetry of the land, beautifully arranged, artfully sourced.  It's not a shop, nor a supermarket.  It's a cultural centre"

Source:  The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide 2010