{"id":505201,"date":"2026-06-18T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:57:08","slug":"outdoor-food-court-in-cork-city-set-to-close-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505201\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor food court in Cork city set to close this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/property\/developmentconstruction\/arid-41572204.html\">Fifth Quarter plaza<\/a> on Paul Street will cease trading on Friday, with its food trucks due to leave the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Announcing the decision on social media on Wednesday evening, the plaza thanked its vendors and customers for their support, saying it hopes to \u201cbring a new and exciting concept to the space in the near future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement, it said the venture had grown beyond expectations since opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWhat started as an idea quickly became something much bigger , a place where people could gather, connect, support local businesses, and enjoy the atmosphere that filled the plaza each day,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;To everyone who embraced the concept, visited the food trucks, attended events, shared our content, brought friends along, or simply stopped by for a coffee and a chat, thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYour support helped turn an empty square into a vibrant community space.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Fifth Quarter also paid tribute to the traders who operated from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTheir hard work, passion, and belief in the project helped create something truly special,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> We are grateful to have shared this journey with them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It added: \u201cWhile this marks the end of one exciting chapter, we are most certainly looking forward with excitement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A number of the plaza\u2019s vendors also confirmed on social media that they would be leaving the site this week, many expressing disappointment at the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Truffle Dog Cork said it was \u201cbeyond disappointed\u201d to be leaving, adding that it had \u201cabsolutely loved being part of the transformation of this area and truly hope this isn&#8217;t the end\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Little Vietnam Cork said it was \u201cwith sadness\u201d that it would depart on Friday, describing the plaza as a \u201cwonderful and vibrant community\u201d and expressing hope it would not be the end of their journey in the space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It added that the Fifth Quarter had brought &#8220;new life to this beautiful part of Cork City&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The vendor Cairo to Cork also announced its departure. &#8220;We hope this isn&#8217;t the end of our journey together, but simply the end of this chapter,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fifth Quarter plaza on Paul Street will cease trading on Friday, with its food trucks due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-505201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}