Five-star touches. No fuss.
Scratch-cooked good food and our own coffee blend, in cafés and coffee docks across Louth and Monaghan.
Pull up a chair.Same care as a Michelin-star dining room. Without anyone calling you madam.
I wanted to create a five-star experience, but in a real casual and relaxed way.
Daniel McLoughlin, founder. Opened Rocksalt in Blackrock in 2018.- Your table is set when you sit down.
- Gingerbread men for the kids, on the house.
- The first coffee of the day is as good as the last one.
- An open kitchen, built from an old horse stable, so you can watch the chefs cook.
- Booths from 1950s Hungarian trams. Toilet doors from an old Indian prison. Ask us.
That's the bit you see.Here's what's under the counter.
Lift the table. There's a bakery under it.
The bakery is ours, and every Rocksalt café buys from it. Head baker Kasia and her team bake the counters, the granola in your bowl and a new Bakes & Bakers range every month.
Filmed in our bakery, not a studio.
The kitchen that feeds the kitchens.
Our production kitchen does the prep for every café, then cooks for the shops, the teams and the catering. It runs like a manufacturer.
"We started off selling 20 to 30 meals a week." Daniel McLoughlin, Hospitality Ireland, 2025.
- Makes
- Café prep, Fit Meals, overnight oat pots, energy balls, team meals
- Feeds
- Every Rocksalt café, local shops, 12 sports teams, our catering
Pre-match. Post-match. Every week.
- Louth GAA
- Monaghan GAA
- Down GAA
- Cavan GAA
- Kildare GAA
Dundalk FC · Drogheda United · St Patrick's Athletic
"We work with 12 different professional sports teams, providing nutritional meals for all the athletes every week, post-training, pre-match."
Daniel McLoughlin
Rocksalt, on the shelf down the road.
Packed under our Little Rocksalt label: the same standard as the cafés, cooked to be heated at home. Delivered fresh, with no additives, and a four or five day shelf life on purpose.
Nutrition as published at the April 2024 launch. Prices as labelled in store. Stockists as of January 2025.
Meet Rocky. He does weddings.
Our restored 1960s Citroën HY food truck cooks on site. The rest of the catering covers breakfast platters at the office, canapés, hot buffets, BBQs and staff days.
- Sandwich Box€60
Serves 5. Chicken stuffing, reuben, chicken caesar, falafel and more.
- Canapésfrom €13.50 pp
- Rocky on sitefrom €22.50 pp
Prices from our 2024 Home & Office menu.
"I'm going to show you some of the mistakes that I've made."
Daniel's podcast goes behind the scenes at Rocksalt and sits down with some of the best hospitality businesses in Ireland. The good and the bad.
And it all ends up at a table near you.
Louth & Monaghan. Tap a café.
Blackrock
Checking hours- Address
- Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Louth, A91 PXA7
- Hours
- Mon to Sun, 8.30am to 5pm
- Phone
- 087 912 7174
- 4.6 from 774 reviews