Eat Local. Drink Local. That’s the motto at O’Mahony’s family run pub in Watergrasshill, about ten minutes drive from the edge of Cork City.
They've been looking after customers here for over 200 years and now Máire O’Ma ... more...
Cork’s answer to Jamie’s Italian, acclaimed Cork chef-restaurateur Brendan Cashman’s venture in Wilton (opposite Cork University Hospital) is bright and spacious, with an eager to please team - and the food, as you’d expect, is ... more...
In the buzzy Coal Quay renewal area, this Cork restaurants a sister establishment to Padraig Frawley's highly regarded Cornstore in Limerick (see entry) is in a stylishly converted two-storey granite mill building.
Colourful Spanish tiles in the recep ... more...
Right in the centre of the city, in Cork's Huguenot district, Ursula and Robert Hales' restaurant is a lot bigger than it used to be when it was tucked into a small site around the corner, but this lively place is still a very popular restaurant and it ... more...
Billing itself originally as a wine café, this quirky riverside venue run by Beverley Mathews is part tapas bar, part wine bar and it has always had a distinctly continental flair.
Re-opening in November 2020 following a long closure after ... more...
Owned by husband and wife team Conrad and Judy Howard and Tracey Corbett (of Market Lane Restaurant & Bar and the Castle Café at Blackrock; Elbow Lane), ORSO Kitchen and Bar brings some very welcome Mediterranean sunshine to Cork city centre ... more...
A smart blue and white frontage and neatly tiered bay tree at the door hint at the big ideas at work in this little designer wine bar & café near Singer's Corner.
It's the brainchild of Marianne Delaney, former manager of The Exchange on Ge ... more...
A new venture by the Cornstore Restaurant Group and Mike Ryan, Head Chef of Cornstore Cork, this Chicken & Burger concept is expected to be the first of many, with plans for a London branch already under way.
Judging by its instant success in ... more...
Cork city lost two of its best-loved casual dining destinations, Dockland and the Crawford Gallery Café, in 2022. But, while both are still missed, a silver lining soon emerged as the former Dockland owners, Beth Haughton and Harold Lynch, ... more...
There’s a lovely buzz in the air when you enter Liberty Grill, which is a sister restaurant to Café Gusto (Washington Street & Lapps Quay, see entry), so you may expect the same food philosophy based on quality ingredients, where possi ... more...
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