Cookbooks

Over a decade after the release of our last cookbook, Avoca at Home is filled with over 100 delicious recipes in a beautiful hardback book, designed and written by our own creative team. The fabulous chefs from our restaurants, cafés, bakeries, and central kitchen shared their own most-loved recipes for this book, and we're very proud of each and every one.
A perfect gift for foodies and home cooks, our new cookbook boasts Avoca classics with contemporary twists as well as exciting new dishes, and tips and tricks from our gardeners, chefs, and design team on how to recreate the Avoca experience at home! A celebration of home cooking and of sharing delicious, indulgent, comforting food at home.

Looking for corporate gifting ideas? Our Avoca at Home Cookbook is the perfect way to say thank you for a job well done or to show appreciation to a loyal team member.

• 319 pages

The third in the series of Avoca cookbooks, A Year at Avoca is a celebration of good food. Seasonality is paramount and the right ingredients are always the starting point for every recipe. It’s packed with gorgeous photography, mostly shot around our Head Office and Design Studio in Co. Wicklow.

• 263 pages

The original Avoca cookbook was published as a way to pass on lots of favourite recipes to our customers. The Avoca Café cookbook went on to be a best seller, which came as a great surprise! Packed with 120 delicious recipes from our hugely popular cafes and food markets, which feature in good eating guides everywhere.

• 187 pages

Revered chef Yotam Ottolenghi offers another fabulous collection of Middle Eastern food with a whopping 140 recipes. And the theme is simplicity; all take less than 30 minutes to prepare, have 10 ingredients or less, are make-ahead styled, are pantry, lazy and easier to make than you’d think.

• Author: Yotam Ottolenghi
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 320

The eagerly awaited new Ottolenghi cookbook breaks down the three factors that create flavour and offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspire - Process, Pairing, Produce. It features more than 100 recipes, combining simple recipes for weeknights, low-effort high-impact dishes, and standout meals for the relaxed cook. Packed with signature colourful photography, this is the impactful, next-level approach to vegetable cooking that Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere have been craving.

• Author: Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 320

Inspired by their childhoods in West and East Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi's and Sami Tamimi's original cookbook showcases fresh, honest, bold cooking and has become a culinary classic. 140 inventive yet simple dishes draw on culinary traditions ranging from North Africa to Lebanon, Italy and California, and cover everything from meat and fish main courses, through to healthy and quick salads and suppers, plus Ottolenghi's famously delectable cakes and breads. A new foreword and introduction shed fresh light on a book that has become a national favourite.

• Author: Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 304

Photographer and chef Mary McCartney combines her two passions into an irresistible dish, preparing some of her favourite food for friends and family, photographing them, and sharing 60 of her delicious plant-based recipes. They cover every eating occasion, from enjoying sheet pan pancakes with Cameron Diaz for breakfast to sharing globe artichoke appetisers with HAIM. She prepares an onion, pea, and spinach tart for lunch at David Hockney's LA studio and savours smokey dogs at home with Woody Harrelson. She meets Nile Rodgers at Abbey Road Studios with a roasted and toasted salad, makes a rainbow sprinkle cake for afternoon tea with Jeff Koons, and much more.

• Author: Mary McCartney
• Format: Hardback
• Page Count: 280

Una Leonard dedicates her days to creating delicious treats - at 2210 Patisserie and at home with family and friends. In this book, she has brought together more of her favourite sweet and savoury recipes so that you can create delicious food to share during life's special moments, big and small. This selection of over 90 recipes also includes Una's favourite seasonal delights, such as Baileys Tiramisu, Pavlova Cake and Barm Brack, and her top tips for filling, stacking and decorating showstopper cakes.

• Author: Una Leonard
• Format: Hardback
• Page Count: 272

Clodagh's Happy Cooking is packed with easy, every day, tasty recipes that make health and happiness a part of your daily routine from breakfast to dinner. All of the recipes have been designed to fit into your daily life, with easy-to-find ingredients, vegan alternatives and air fryer adaptations when relevant. From breakfasts to help you start your day on the right side of the bed to simple suppers you can make in under 30 minutes, Clodagh's Happy Cooking is a must-have guide to joyful, healthy living.

• Author: Clodagh McKenna
• Format: Hardback
• Page Count: 240

Whether at his own kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei, Nigel Slater has kept note of the small things, events and happenings that gave pleasure before disappearing forever. Here he celebrates details like enjoying a soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet and hiding in plain sight – as well as feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain and a dish of restorative macaroni cheese.

• Author: Nigel Slater
• Format: Hardback
• Page Count: 384

Lili’s Family Fakeaways is packed with over 80 dishes you’ll want to cook again and again, all using simple, readily available ingredients. Whether it’s chicken chow mein, pad Thai or air fryer falafel, taco cheese fries, prawn biryani or double-decker smash burgers, now you can make them at home quicker than ordering a takeaway. Every recipe is designed with busy family life in mind. From quick midweek dinners to fun weekend treats, you’ll find no-fuss, fresh, flavour-packed ideas you’ll want to make every day!

• Author: Lili Forberg
• Format: Hardback
• Page Count: 208

Bring the magic of Guinness to your kitchen with the Official Guinness Cookbook. Featuring over 60 recipes, from rich braised short ribs to indulgent chocolate potato cake, each dish is crafted to pair with or feature iconic Guinness brews. With stunning photography, historic insights, and festive menu ideas, this is the ultimate gift for Guinness lovers, foodies, and home cooks alike.

• Author: Caroline Hennessy
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 144