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food-drink · Sunday 16 August 2026 · 7:00pm 
Spice Route Supper Club at Rebel City Distillery - Cork on a Fork 2026
At Rebel City Distillery · Unit P6, Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road, Cork City, Co. Cork
At Rebel City Distillery · Unit P6, Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road, Cork City, Co. Cork
The Spice Route Supper Club pairs South Indian cooking with Cork craft gin at Rebel City Distillery, on the closing night of Cork on a Fork Fest 2026. Guest chef Christopher Braganza of The Spice Genie leads a shared-table, three-course meal shaped by the spice traditions of Kerala - the same region that supplies the botanicals at the heart of Rebel City’s Maharani Gin. The parallel is real and deliberate: you eat and drink your way through the same spice route in a single sitting. It suits anyone who loves food with genuine flavour, curious drinkers, or couples after an occasion that goes well beyond a standard restaurant booking. Numbers are intimate, so it is the kind of evening that books out.
You arrive to a welcome gin and tonic - the house Maharani, naturally. Rebel City is housed in a renovated building in Cork’s old docklands, on the site of the former Ford car factory, with working stills visible around you. Robert and Bhagya, the husband-and-wife team behind the distillery, built Maharani Gin around botanicals from a women’s organic farming co-operative in Kerala, South India - and that backstory runs through the evening. Christopher Braganza’s three-course menu explores the same spice corridor, expect South Indian flavours handled by someone who knows them well. Stories of spice and craft distillation are woven in throughout. Over-18s only.
Rebel City Distillery sits at Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road - roughly 20 minutes on foot from the city centre or a short taxi from Patrick’s Street. Cork is served by the M8 from Dublin and M20 from Limerick. Irish Rail and Bus Eireann both run into Cork Kent Station; from there it is a 25-minute walk or a quick cab. Parking is available within Marina Commercial Park.
Cork is worth a full day on either side of the evening - the English Market, the Crawford Art Gallery, and the walks along the Lee all reward the extra time. There is more to see in Cork and across Co. Cork.
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