Welcome to 56 Central

56 Central opened on Shop Street in 2015 the focus has been to bring you home comforts, simple dishes cooked with passion and care in a place we have designed to allow you to chill and relax

Arentas is our Head Chef and has been with the company for 10 years starting his career off in 37 West Cafe our original cafe. Arentas and his team prepare as much as they can in house to give everything we make a unique flavour.

Arentas sources local where possible and if unavailable we choose Irish products first. We are currently faced with fluctuating food costs weekly and we are trying to control costs the best we can during this extremely unstable time.
Gill has been leading the team front of house since she created 56 Central in 2015. The team work hard to offer outstanding customer service always and live by our core values.

The Mission of 56 Central is simple - Win Win Win - to always create a solution where everyone wins : Our Customers, Our Crews, Our Community and Our Company

One of our Core Values is Leadership, with this in mind we have a focus on sustainability in every part of what we do - switching to LED lights, having tight waste management systems, recycling all clean dry recyclable waste, reducing take away coffees cup for strictly take away only, working with local produces for our high volume goods like Bread, Lettuce, Milk , Eggs, Cakes and using crates/boxes to avoid packaging, using a paperless accountancy system, urging people to use WIFI code for menu rather than printing, installing eco friendly heaters, all our take away products are bio degradable products and have a large selection of real plants to help with oxygen levels while you dine.

One of our Core Values is Connection. We connect with the local community in varies ways and encourage the use of Irish language when engaging with staff and are proud host of the Gaillimh Le Gaeilge Lon Gno every year. We hosted serval free coffee mornings for the Ukraine community when they first arrived in Galway helping them connect and giving them a safe space to meet people. We work with various local community led projects and sit on various boards to help make Galway a better place.

One of our Core Values is Contribution, with this in mind since we opened we have hosted the Galway Simon Community annual Sleep Out For Simon on Shop Street along with many volunteers raising over 1/2 million euro to date for this local charity. Along with this we have also raised funds and supported various other charities such a CF Ireland and Big Brother Big Sister.

One of our Core Values is Freedom, this means we strive for Freedom away from 56 Central - we achieve this by respecting each others time outside of work. We also work together to ensure everyone gets proper time off, using all holidays available and working rosters for the best outcome for Freedom.

Our last core value is Playfulness we have strong belief that work should be fun, and we should all live the sweet life. We encourage our passions in and out of work. We want our customers to enjoy the interaction with our team and we actively encourage our team to engage through various games and fun projects.

Breakfast served from 9am -11.45am

Please note we cook to order - so please allow up to 20 minutes.

Please pay at the table. We are unable to split bills

Lunch Menu Served from 12.15pm

Please Pay at your table. We are unable to split bills.

We cook to order so please allow up to 20 minutes.

WHO WE WORK WITH …..

Our sour dough bread, used for our famous chicken melts, is sourced from our polish friends at Soho Bakery. We work with local bakery Bridie Murphy who makes all our brown bread and fresh scones. Our salad leaves when in seasons are delivered by Donnacha direct from his farm. Ours eggs which are all free range are from local company Corrib Eggs. All of our goat’s cheese comes from another Irish company- Five Mile Town Creamery. All of our bacon and sausages are from Limerick based company, Tournafulla.  We work alongside various local bakeries for cakes.

In 56 Central we are mad about tea, be it Irish Lyon’s Tea or our great selection of herbal teas called Tea Pigs. Tea Pigs are great quality real tea, with whole leaf tea, whole leaf herbs, whole berries, whole spices and whole flowers. We also love that the Tea Pigs box can be put in our food bin - compostable!

Our coffee is supplied by Matt and George a 2nd generation business whose father set up Coffee.ie sees the boys carry on the tradition in new modern style - sourcing a fine bean for us. When you drink a cup of our Bristot coffee you are drinking a cup of the world-our blend has 6 beans from around the world.

The Kenny family of J&C Kenny Wines fill our shelves. In summer of 2016 we joined forces with Fernando from Spain who flew over to give a one-off wine tasting. This was a very special event with some delicious Spanish tapas made by Chef Arentas. We have recently added beers to our beverage menu including the new Can of Guinness Micro draught for freshness and draft of Birrra Moretti on tap and a selection of craft beers. If its cocktails you are after we are the most beautiful House Cocktail made from Elderflower and Prosecco

The Famous Cajun Melt.

We have incorporated specialties from the original 37 West Cafe like the Super Food salad which is a hands down favourite with everyone, male or female! Of course we would be nothing without the Chicken Melt which is so famous and so sought after that we had to give it a proper title and we invented National Chicken Melt Day on the 18th of March the actual day that the melt was created in 2014 in 37 West. We gave away over 500 melts between the 2 places that day and gave away t shirts, pens and balloons to all the loyal fans who cued to get the free melt! We sold 37 West in 2019.

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