KC's Douglas

dulpit

Was in there the other day, big queue but my god is it worth it... The best chipper in Cork by miles...

One thing that does puzzle me is why is the place closed on Tuesdays?

I always heard when i was younger that it was because everybody who works there is a Jehovah's Witness (or something) and that Tuesday is like a holy day or something... I presume this is horse manure, right?

Roar

dulpit wrote:

Was in there the other day, big queue but my god is it worth it... The best chipper in Cork by miles...

One thing that does puzzle me is why is the place closed on Tuesdays?

I always heard when i was younger that it was because everybody who works there is a Jehovah's Witness (or something) and that Tuesday is like a holy day or something... I presume this is horse manure, right?

i heard that too, except the were mormans.. or something

anyway, next time you're in there get a philly steak pitta, with no lettuce and extra garlic mayo.. the nicest thing you will ever taste...

julesrtc

i heard they were Jehovahs also but i think they just close when they want..
some nights before the pubs close, busiest time!!!! They still get the business so can do what they want....
they are the nicest in Cork arent they??? i have relations that visit from Mayo/Carlow and ask when r we going to K.C's!!! so its nationwide!!!!

rymus

It is a Jehovah thing iirc, but as said, they're practically printing money in there so why not invent your own opening times? Work when it suits and that kind of thing..

You do get a dodgy cheeseburger in there from time to time.. Some of them can be left sitting for hours and you can almost use them as doorstops. I'd second the philly steak, it's calorific! Gotta have the lettuce though, it's what makes it healthy

beyondrapid

i heard they were witnesses also, but this was years ago - early '90s. was in ucc and used to make regular trips to douglas just for a 'pig in a poke'. the stuff of legends.

randombar

Vampyre pitta is to die for but lennoxes bandon road has much better chips, mattie kielys on hanover st is probably up there too!

Poll???

julesrtc

Mattie Kielys Is Shut Down Isnt It?? He Retired....

mmm Lennox's. Thebest chipper in Cork by a long shot. I have relations from Australia who want to go to lennox's when they are here. Its internationally renowned!

dulpit

Ya, mattie Kiely's closed... That place was hilarious, hygiene, schmygeine... And no, lennox's is a poor option compared to KC's, used to be nicer but not any more... I'd nearly pick Dino's in Kinsale over Lennox's now..

And back to KC's, i love their Chicken Nuggets, or steak sandwiches... Had a traumatic night last weekend, bought Chicken Nuggets, got home & spilled them all over the kitchen floor... Nearly cried...:(

daveirl

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dulpit

daveirl wrote:

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I would have except the floor was quite wet, cos it had been bucketing (what's new?) and people were dragging their mucky feet through the kitchen...

dulpit

dulpit wrote:

And no, lennox's is a poor option compared to KC's, used to be nicer but not any more... I'd nearly pick Dino's in Kinsale over Lennox's now..

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I will never set foot in Dinos again as long as I live. Pure muck.

randombar

Throw up a poll on the top there dulpit, dinos in kinsale is de job all right for getting chiiper chips in a restaraunt! Can't believe Matties is closed!

Owen

They're Jehovahs, and they have Church services on a Tuesday night. The King Creole is simply incredible. Best item on the menu by far, although the Flaming Pig in the Spuds or the Enchilada come a close second!

Tree

kc's is totally overrated. their chips suck the donkey's bits. golden fry all the way baby

Léan

Golden Fry + 1
One of the nicest chippers in cork.

dahamsta

+1 Golden Fry. Francis'd kick the Jehovah's heads in.

I'd murder a chicken maryland right now btw.

parsi

The Golden Fry has to be the slowest chipper in the world which is why it always seems to be full.

Yeas ago I went in there and asked for a Hawaiian burger (burger with pineapple) - the response was "you're not in KCs now love.."

The Douglas and TC Dinos are better value. The chipper beside the Silver Key is muck.

dudara

Barty's chipper up in Ballyphehane - best chips in the city - beats Lennox's hands down.

The chips aren't great in KC's, but everything else is so so good. Bombay all the way...

dudara

dudara wrote:

Barty's chipper up in Ballyphehane - best chips in the city - beats Lennox's hands down.

The chips aren't great in KC's, but everything else is so so good. Bombay all the way...

It wouldn't be hard to beat the Lennox's on Tory Top Road but theres no beating Lennox's on Bandon Road.

dudara

Lennox's is good, but the reputation it has blinds people to other great (and better) chippers in the city.

dahamsta

parsi wrote:

The Golden Fry has to be the slowest chipper in the world which is why it always seems to be full.

It is very slow, which is a pain in the hole. But worth it. KC's is the best in the business when it comes to speed though. Unbelievable how quick they can move a queue in there.

Yeas ago I went in there and asked for a Hawaiian burger (burger with pineapple) - the response was "you're not in KCs now love.."

Well, you weren't.

The Douglas and TC Dinos are better value. The chipper beside the Silver Key is muck.

Can't argue with you there!

adam

Roar

dudara wrote:

Barty's chipper up in Ballyphehane - best chips in the city - beats Lennox's hands down.

ah no.. i live down the road from there, and used to go there regularly.. but then about 3 or 4 times in a row id come home and the chips would be soft on the outside, hard in the middle, cold and hardly cooked.. dont go there anymore now..

JSK 252

L&#233 wrote: »

Golden Fry + 1
One of the nicest chippers in cork.

Golden fry is a piece of ****. I got the fish platter one day and the prawns with their batter tasted like styrofoam. However saying that I got a nice cheeseburger one day though. But that was only once.

JSK 252

Deleted User wrote:

mmm Lennox's. Thebest chipper in Cork by a long shot. I have relations from Australia who want to go to lennox's when they are here. Its internationally renowned!

Their prices are absolutely rediculously dear. You get no value for your money in lennox's.

JSK 252

GaryCocs wrote:

Vampyre pitta is to die for but lennoxes bandon road has much better chips, mattie kielys on hanover st is probably up there too!

Poll???

Polynesian, Bombay chicken and a battered sausage hands down.

rymus

Tree wrote:

kc's is totally overrated. their chips suck the donkey's bits. golden fry all the way baby

Who goes to KC's for their chips?

dahamsta

JSK 253, you know you can put all that in one post, right?

applehunter

Overrated.

Just because they have strange opening hours, its a bit like Newgrange. All hype but not worth the wait.

rymus

next time I'm up near Newgrange, I'll be sure to call in for a pitta :rolleyes:

JSK 252

dahamsta wrote:

JSK 253, you know you can put all that in one post, right?

Tis JSK ( James Simon Keane ) 252 ( Blah blah blah) not 253. Yah I know you can but couldnt be bothered:D.

dahamsta

So you're not just a moron, you're a lazy moron?

randombar

Right lads have a poll up in a new thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055128345

Lennoxes all the way!

dahamsta

Waste of time. Lennox's will win on popular opinion; the same popular opinion that gives us Big Brother. I vote that the discerning chipper fan such as myself and Tree should get multiple votes.

parsi

dahamsta wrote:

Well, you weren't.

Aye. But I wasn't in Donkey Fords either.

A burger with a slice of year-old pineapple is a Hawaiian burger in every other chipper in the entire world so why is the Golden Fry any different ? Eh ? It's a place with notions - seafood "platter" - a polystyrene plate - what's wrong with paper I ask ?

Big Tone

Cork's best kept secret - Looney's chipper Mayfield and Blackpool!

bill_ashmount

Big Tone wrote:

Cork's best kept secret - Looney's chipper Mayfield and Blackpool!

You can't beat the Looney Burger

turly

Cod almighty, it's been years since I was there. But the cod supper with curry sauce instead of peas was the mutt's nads.

And another one, there used to be a chipper about halfway down Blarney St - when I used to work strange hours in Apple I'd walk home (to Mayfield!) and go out of my way to walk down Blarna to get their chips. The burgers weren't the best, but the chips and battered sossies were up there with the best of 'em. It was a really small place but I can't remember the name of it now. For all I know it's gone, it was in the late 90s sometime... anyone know? It had a sign which mentioned something about a 'traditional chipper' or something...

dahamsta

parsi wrote:

A burger with a slice of year-old pineapple is a Hawaiian burger in every other chipper in the entire world

In all honesty, I've never seen a Hawaiian outside of KCs.

It's a place with notions - seafood "platter" - a polystyrene plate

I think the word is more used to indicate that it's a "medley" or somesuch, but that would be really pretentious. On a point of pedantry, as someone that used to work in packaging, those plates are actually called platters. Or "oval plates".

what's wrong with paper I ask ?

It would go soggy and collapse with the weight if you tried to pick it up. Sorry, packaging nerd again.

adam

JSK 252

dahamsta wrote:

So you're not just a moron, you're a lazy moron?

Who called anyone a moron? Did I call you one? From my knoweledge no I didnt so why call me one? No need to go down to that level.

JohnK

JSK 252 wrote:

No need to go down to that level.

Down? That's up from his usual level

parsi

dahamsta wrote:

In all honesty, I've never seen a Hawaiian outside of KCs.

You must broaden your horizons - there are chippers in other parts of the country ! In fear that I was going mad I did a google and yes the "recipe" does exist elsewhere http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf19686371.tip.html

dahamsta wrote:

I think the word is more used to indicate that it's a "medley" or somesuch, but that would be really pretentious. On a point of pedantry, as someone that used to work in packaging, those plates are actually called platters. Or "oval plates".

Got to love the internet - you'll always find someone who actually knows some relatively obscure area (rather than the rest of us who make wild guesses).

dahamsta wrote:

It would go soggy and collapse with the weight if you tried to pick it up. Sorry, packaging nerd again.
adam

I bow to your superior packaging knowledge

dahamsta

Heh, someone telling me I haven't visited enough chippers! You obviously haven't met me and seen my slim, trim figure! I've been to plenty of chippers, that's why I'm surprised you're on about Hawaiian's in other ones. But let's try it the other way around:

Apart from KC's, do any of the chippers mentioned in this thread have Hawaiian burgers?

adam

Femelade

ned78 wrote:

The King Creole is simply incredible.

Seconded!!

parsi

dahamsta wrote:

But let's try it the other way around:

Apart from KC's, do any of the chippers mentioned in this thread have Hawaiian burgers?

adam

Haven't a notion.

I don't eat the damn things (once was ever enough) and herself doesn't eat them any more.. But I do remember that as a kid they were around in the chippers in Limerick (and on holidays up in Dublin) - probably for the continental touch...

Then again we never had potato pies. There must be a thesis in it for someone to document regional tastes in chipper products.

dahamsta

Jesus, I'd love a pie from Johnny Fries now. They call em "fish cakes" for some reason, despite a notable lack of fish.

Would ye stop talking about chippers ffs!

adam

parsi

Bit like our canteen's "salmon cakes" - I think a salmon may have swum past them at some stage...

rymus

Femmy wrote:

Seconded!!

Thirded...

Poppers1888

After about a year of waiting im going to Cork for a wedding for this weekend and we are going to KCs first thing tomorrow night when we get down. Any recommendations on what to get???

Thanks

JohnK

King Creole; its about the only thing on the menu that I like.

dahamsta

Would ye stop talking about food ffs!