Anywhere to buy Irish bread in Eastern US?

jonasjones

I'm living in NYC right now and am missing Brennans, Pat the Baker, et al something fierce. There's a lot of decent grub over here but I'm missing the basics - nothing beats a nice slice of toast and a good cuppa. Does anyone happen to know of any import services anywhere on the eastern seaboard that brings in bread from the motherland? Doesn't even have to be available every day - just something that is available from time to time...

Cooperspale

Try this company
http://www.foodireland.com/
or call them and see what stores they deliver to
I've seen Brennans in a small supermarket in Yonkers but cannot remember its name

jonasjones

Cooperspale wrote: »

Try this company
http://www.foodireland.com/
or call them and see what stores they deliver to
I've seen Brennans in a small supermarket in Yonkers but cannot remember its name

I most certainly will. That's a great help, thank you!

Darren1o1

Have you tried Irish shops? I am able to get them frozen in a few shops around Boston suck as Kiki's in Brighton. There is also a few Irish bakers about in Boston, I would imagine NYC is the same. As previous poster, I have ordered off of Food Ireland in a pinch, but found the bread to be a bit stale.

Ponster

Brennans bread is sold in Queens at an Irish store called Butcher Block and at Key Foods on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. It's normally shipped in frozen but I've had the odd batch which wasn't fresh.

There are very few Irish products which can't be found at Butchers Block.

FightingIrish

http://www.foodireland.com/c/brennans.html

It's frozen, but I promise you, it's frozen just out of the oven, the problem with bread is people expect it to be the same from frozen, it's just not quite the same!!

InTheTrees

FightingIrish wrote: »

http://www.foodireland.com/c/brennans.html

It's frozen, but I promise you, it's frozen just out of the oven, the problem with bread is people expect it to be the same from frozen, it's just not quite the same!!

We always froze loaves in the deep freeze back on the farm in Galway, you have to if you only shop once a week.

Never noticed a difference in taste.

Darren1o1

We froze 12-15 loaves a week and there was no difference. They are certainly not the same when you get them from food Ireland. I did get them last Xmas if this makes a diff.

jonasjones

As a follow-up, I've been shopping at foodireland now for a good year. I can't complain about the bread. No, it's not as fresh as back home but given it is imported, frozen and then cold-shipped that was always going to be the case. Better used for toast than sandwiches (where the freshness is more critical) but superior to any sliced bread I've found over here to date regardless. It's also a good place to buy tea bags and sweets and whatnot. The delivery cost is the only killer - it's not unreasonable or anything, but paying $10-12 for delivery means that i've got to put together a pretty decent sized order before it's worth my while buying anything. If anyone has found any alternatives/better solutions let me know!

veetwin

I'd be surprised if Prime Cuts on Katonah Avenue would not have some Irish Bread.

http://www.nycgo.com/venues/prime-cuts-irish-butchers