"In a city chock-full of fine coffee houses and a county with the best roasting scene in Ireland, Filter is Cork’s epicenter for serious coffee drinkers. Assembled from recycled materials, it sports the clean, spare lines of a lab with none of the sterility, and an extensive array of coffee-related kit. Filter carries an impressive range of beans from top Irish roasters to titillate the obsessives yet functions equally well as a coffeehouse for the general public. Partner-proprietors Eoin McCarthy and Alex O’Callaghan have established an off-site bakery, supplying the shop (and other coffeehouses) with an inventive range of confections and baked goods. [$]" - Joe McNamee