Looking for a restaurant recommendation

Amnesiac_ie

Hey guys,

Some friends and I are going for dinner next week (rare treat for poor students) and we're looking for some recommendations. We're a group of about 6 and we'll have wheels so we were thinking of Kinsale (but we'd consider anywhere near the city).

Some of us love seafood but some of us don't so somewhere that does good food including nice seafood would be ideal.

D-Generate

Price range that the poor students have might be handy

~Rebel~

If its a rare treat and you're spending serious money then Man Friday in Kinsale is pretty top notch..

aidan_walsh

Table 8, on Carey's Lane.

Dimitri

Always enjoy milano's myself but thats italian... thereis a lovely place in crosshaven used to be called the schooner i think its called johnnys return or something like that and they do good sea food too!!

greglo23

The Spinnaker*
Casual dining at an intimate and unique cosy restaurant, with spectacular views. Famous for our Spinnaker steak and seafood. Open 6 pm to 10 pm nightly. Price range medium.

Host: Frank O'Flynn Tel: 477 2098 Address: Scilly, Kinsale

i've eaten here a few times and it's excellent. great seafood and you have to try the Death by Chocolate !! Yum !!

DawnMc

The Rising Tide in Gloutane is really nice, a bit far out but with lovely views over the sea.

nesf

Of the top of my head:

For a student's budget...

Wagamama's off Washington Street is pretty nice. Relatively cheap too. Japenese food for the most part, and there is plenty of variation on the menu.


Slighty more expensive but still reasonable:

The Strasbourg Goose on French Church Street, is pretty nice. Good variation in menu again and a good selection of seafood, although I haven't had any seafood there.

Lex Luthor

~Rebel~ wrote:

If its a rare treat and you're spending serious money then Man Friday in Kinsale is pretty top notch..

My sister lives in Kinsale and works in the Bullman restaurant and she highly recommends that place.
She also has recommended the Man Friday to me but I've never had the time to visit, but I can recommend the Vintage Restaurant in Main St. If its all couples, its a real small cosy atmosphere with only about 8-10 tables and you don't feel cramped, but I would recommend booking. Goes for any restaurant in Kinsale.

treefingers

yeah im living in kinsale at the moment and man friday is one of the best. i dont really like the bulman for food, but it is great for a pint on a hot summers day!

there are loads of good ones though. jim edwards is another one........

solice

If money aint an issue i would say man friday in kinsale as well. Its not overly expensive and you do get quiet a lot of food

brettmirl

Casino House in Kilbrittain gets my vote.

Or if you are driving venture futher west and try O'Callaghan-Walshe's in Ross.

reic

Had lunch in the Newport the other day, in Paul Street. Quite nice vegetarian lasagne for E8.95. Included standard side salad and nice chips. And sullen waitress (Irish of course).

dudara

If you go to Luigi Malone's on a weekday before 7pm, I think, then you get a free bottle of wine with your order. Makes it very affordable

damien

dudara wrote:

If you go to Luigi Malone's on a weekday before 7pm, I think, then you get a free bottle of wine with your order. Makes it very affordable

It's still a dump though.

dahamsta

What's wrong with it?

solice

Its overpriced! The food is mank! The service is only ok. Dont have the chicken, its dry and tasteless

dahamsta

I never had a problem with the pricing, the food or the service in there. Can't comment on the chicken, never had it.

EDIT: Actually I tell a lie, I had a burger in there once and didn't like it. Not because it was bad though, but because it wasn't my style.

adam

solice

Different blokes different strokes

damien

Luigi's is a canteen dressed up as a restaurant.

The atmosphere is noisy, the service is barely average and overall it is not value for money.

The food is bland, boring, mass-produced, over-cooked, unimaginative and creativity appears to be an enemy of the plate. The choice appears to be good on first impressions but you realise that it is just the same old blandness with varying names. I've been a few times and swore never again.

What used to redeem it were the pitchers of cocktails they had but even nowadays that is not enough as they are watered down and overpriced.

If you are harping back to the good ole days of the school canteen then this is the place to go.

dahamsta

Meee-oowww!

damien

I like the Strasbourg goose. Despite the service being very lacking, the waiting staff not having an iota about how to serve people their meals. - *hint* you do not shove a plate in their face and tell them "careful la it's hot"

*Further hint* You do not present a can of diet coke and a glass of ice at a restaurant when they ask for a Diet Coke. Pour it at the bar/counter.

Yet all of these and I'll go again because the food is well prepared, well presented, delicious and good value. The daily specials are always top notch and their fish selection is brilliant. I'll even forgive them their laminated menus and I utterly despise laminated menus.

dudara

Tbh, I've found the Goose to be weak anytime I've eaten there. They try hard with their menus, and I appreciate that, but you have to deliver upon that promise and I've found that they don't. It's often just bland, never quite lives up.

There are precious few good mid-range restaurants in this city. You might be as well to head to Kinsale or perhaps the Oysterhaven for your dindin

Hells_Belle

Fenn's Quay on Sheare Street is a really lovely restaurant with a gifted chef and a great menu... if you book in before 7:30, you can get 2 courses for 20e - the wine list isn't expensive, either. It's a good deal!

dudara

Fenn's Quay is nice, the problem is that if you go there anyway regularly, the food is the same the whole time.

~Rebel~

if lookin for cheapness, early bird menu at Gambini's is quite good, before half 7 its 15 or 20e for 2 courses. nice food too!

nesf

damien.m wrote:

I like the Strasbourg goose. Despite the service being very lacking, the waiting staff not having an iota about how to serve people their meals. - *hint* you do not shove a plate in their face and tell them "careful la it's hot"

*Further hint* You do not present a can of diet coke and a glass of ice at a restaurant when they ask for a Diet Coke. Pour it at the bar/counter.

Yet all of these and I'll go again because the food is well prepared, well presented, delicious and good value. The daily specials are always top notch and their fish selection is brilliant. I'll even forgive them their laminated menus and I utterly despise laminated menus.

Yeah, it has plenty problems. But the food (which is really what I care most about) is good for the price. Tbh, as soon as I was handed a laminated menu I lost all hope of top class service at my table (I know, unfair tbh). The food suprised me though, after the laminated menu my expectations weren't that high.

nesf

dudara wrote:

There are precious few good mid-range restaurants in this city. You might be as well to head to Kinsale or perhaps the Oysterhaven for your dindin

I agree with you completely. Mid range resteraunts in Cork are not good in Cork generally. Although, for mid range ethnic resteraunts the city is good in my experience. It just doesn't have many European resteraunts that are worth talking about in that catagory.

damien

nesf wrote:

Tbh, as soon as I was handed a laminated menu I lost all hope of top class service at my table (I know, unfair tbh).

Laminated menus are my pet peeve too actually.

brettmirl

So you keep telling us!