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A risograph-style illustration of the buttermilk chicken burger with wild garlic mayo
The buttermilk chicken burger · wild garlic mayo

Main Street · Dundrum

Northern Ireland's first zero-waste hot food bar.

Paul Cunningham cooked on Great British Menu in 2021, then came home to open Scopers — breakfast, brunch and lunch built on his grandfather's foraging and the Mourne Larder: only what the local Mourne area provides, nothing wasted.

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The whole carrot earns its place.

Root, peel, tops and trim become something worth eating—not something left behind.

AI-generated film

Appetite first, zero waste made visible
“Carrots like you've never tasted them before”
Paul CunninghamInstagram, 26 March 2026

One side dish. The whole kitchen.

Zero-waste is how we cook — forage what is there, use every part, waste nothing. Follow one ingredient through the week.

“Carrots like you've never tasted them before” — the side dish that explains the whole kitchen: what the Mourne Larder gives, cooked properly, nothing wasted.

Glazed seasonal carrots
Seasonal carrots

  1. What the Larder gives

    Fresh, local, seasonal — only what the mountains, the coast and the farms around Dundrum actually provide.

  2. Picked at peak

    The side dish that carries the week's best roots: heritage carrots from the Mourne patch, not a garnish.

  3. Cooked properly

    Glazed, seasoned and finished in the pass — the same attention the burgers get.

  4. Nothing wasted

    Trim, peel and pot liquor go back into the kitchen. Zero-waste is kitchen logic here, not a sticker.

Point, queue, eat.

Baked this morning. When it's gone, it's gone.

A buttermilk-fried chicken burger in a seeded milk bread bun
Buttermilk chicken burgerwild garlic mayo · tomato salsa

Proper quality chicken, marinated in buttermilk and breaded to order, with homemade wild garlic mayo and tomato salsa, in a home-baked milk bread bun.

Chips loaded with BBQ pork, chipotle mayo and jalapeños
BBQ pork loaded frieschipotle mayo · crispy jalapeños

Slow-cooked BBQ pork over thick-cut chips, chipotle mayo and crisp jalapeños. The takeaway box that tastes like a kitchen.

Glazed carrots with sesame, spring onion and edible flowers
Seasonal carrotsfresh · local · seasonal

“Carrots like you've never tasted them before.” The plate that carries the week's best roots.

Two rustic loaves cooling on a wire rack
Bread baked each dayevery bun, every loaf

Fresh bread baked each day on the premises — including the milk bread buns the burgers are built on.

This week's menu

The menu is a map.

The ten square miles around Dundrum are our supply chain and our creed. Each dish is pinned to where it comes from — hedgerows, the coast, the foothills, the counter where bread is baked each day.

AI-generated artworkIndicative Mourne Larder artwork, based on Scopers' public sourcing language. No named farm, supplier or surveyed origin is claimed.
  • The hedgerowsSeasonal carrots
  • The foothillsWild garlic for the mayo
  • 169 Main StreetBread baked here · the counter

The man who cooked for the nation now judges his day in milk bread buns.

  1. 2021

    Great British Menu

    Paul Cunningham cooks on Great British Menu — the national stage before the counter.

  2. Home

    Back to Dundrum

    He comes home to open a hot food bar on his grandfather's foraging — forage what is there, use every part, waste nothing.

  3. July 2022

    Scopers opens

    Northern Ireland's first zero-waste hot food bar opens at 169 Main Street — breakfast, brunch and lunch from the Mourne Larder.

  4. July 2026

    Four years at the counter

    Four years in, still the only zero-waste hot food bar of its kind in Northern Ireland — and still baking every bun at dawn.

  5. The game

    The supper clubs

    Secret pop-up tables in unique Mourne locations — up to eleven courses, the address revealed to guests the week before.

A small hot food bar counter with kraft boxes, loaves and a cast-iron pan
The counter at 169 Main Street — no table service, no bookings. You queue and point.

169 Main Street, Dundrum.

Where

169 Main Street
Dundrum, Co Down
BT33 0LY

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When

Open most of the week for breakfast, brunch and lunch. Hours move with the season.

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Talk to us

Supper-club places, private bookings and big orders are all arranged by message — the same inbox the kitchen already answers.

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