Cherry_Cola wrote: » La Dolce Vita, well holy god! How I have never been there before is beyond me! Great vibe, lovely staff, amazing food. Had the ham and mushroom calzone and colleague has the spinach tortelloni and we were both very impressed.
silly wrote: » Looking for a restaurant recommendation for a nice meal at Christmas time for girls night out. Cheers
sporina wrote: » The River Lee Hotel is great..
northgirl wrote: » Does anywhere in Cork do pancakes for brunch? I am craving pancakes.
SouthernBelle wrote: » Agreed. We've had a few good staff nights in the Weir Rooms.
pwurple wrote: » Well you have come to the right place! When we were couchsurfing recently, pancakes were the weekend treat for us and the kids. We found a LOT. Liberty Grill does awesome pancakes. Syrup, bacon, or banana I think. (Or any combo of those) Idaho cafe has nice belgian waffle with maple syrup... not a pancake, but close, and my kids ate them. The bookshelf cafe... puts cinnamon on them, and they have oats in there. controversial for us. Mainly uneaten by the kids, but I liked them. Tony's bisto, north main street has pancakes with nutella. Gallaghers on bridge street. Tara's tea room on mccurtain street. Drakes on acadamy street. American ones with maple. The Parlour Cafe , cornmarket street. V nice here. Serendipity out towards UCC on the western road. Weir rooms out that way as well (river lee hotel). Gogos on the well road, douglas. Castle cafe. And I assume by extension market lane, but I didn't check them out. And I have heard that spitjack does them on washington street. Enjoy!
Malari wrote: » That is some pretty extensive pancake research there, pwurple!
pwurple wrote: » Lol, yeah, I take my pancakes SERIOUSLY. I feel bad slightly buying them, because they are so very easy to make, but we were without functioning kitchen at the time, and feck-it, it's fun to go out for brekkie. Not quite the thread for it... but if anyone wants my uber-lazy pancake recipe: 1 egg per person, and one extra. - beat in a bowl Add one heaped tablespoon of flour* per egg. - beat more. Add a little milk**, more for thin ones. A pinch of salt if you like it. Beat some more. Fry in a bit of butter & oil. * Any flour, plain, self-raising, strong, wholewheat, gluten free... whatevs. Also works with readybrek here if no flour in the house, but you need a bit more. **milk can be subbed for buttermilk, almond milk, oatmilk, yoghurt, crème fraiche, cream... pick your poison. Now, what to put on your pancake. That's the makings of a book.
sporina wrote: » i don't get the pancake thing at all.. just like the doughnut thing.. on Pancake Tuesday the only way I partake is my having some nutella on a digestive or a rich tea biscuit.. Each to their own i guess.
BelovedAunt wrote: » Lads I see that Haveli is the number one rated restaurant on TripAdvisor. Has anyone here ate there before?
limnam wrote: » I'd have a quick check there for a pulse. It's possible you maybe dead :pac:
pwurple wrote: » Spitjack recommendation. Worst name I've heard for a restaurant in Cork city, but work peeps wanted to go there, so off we went. Happy surprise, no spitting or jacking in sight. The place is very stylish inside, lots of glinting brass, striking tiles and loads of glassware. I ordered sirloin, and was happy with that choice. It was very good indeed. They roast the whole side of beef (O'Mahony's sirloin, a great local butcher as well), and slice you off a 10oz hunk the size of a steak. It's pink, maybe a medium. No choice in how you get it, but that suited me fine. So tender, so delicious, plenty of salt on it. I could eat another one now. 23.50 for that , it's the most expensive thing on the menu. It came with a green salad and one side dish of my choice. On the table we got a heap of sides... sweet potato fries, skinny chips, roast crispy spuds, mushroom risotto, Caesar salad, roast veggies with ginger (my least favourite, the ginger didn't go with what anyone else had). couldn't fault any of them. The sweet potato ones came with this smoked paprika mayo, loved it. They have a big cocktail list, I had the "5 a day". Something with avocado and goji berries in it. Very hipster altogether, tasted like alcoholic grass. I liked it a lot, but someone else at the table didn't like theirs (they said more like soap). Because we're pure savages and it was a big table, we tried all the desserts between us. The peanut butter one was pronounced the best by consensus. It's a peanut butter semifreddo, with peanut brittle and a chocolate sauce.
jsms88 wrote: » I've been very impressed with Spitjack too. Just popped in there twice for lunch and really enjoyed the pulled beef burger and the rotisserie chicken.
.red. wrote: » I know Luigi's gets hammered here and for good reason but we were going for dinner last week and I had a craving for wings so went in. The place was dead, maybe just less than half full on a Wednesday night. No atmosphere in there. Got my wings as the main with chips and they were as good as ever. My wife had the chicken fajitas which were pretty tasty but once the bowl started to empty you could see the amount of grease at the bottom, pretty off putting tbh. Got their toblerone cheesecake each which wasn't as good as I remember it to be. 10/10 for the wings, still think their the best in the city. 5/10 for everything else.
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