Went to Nua Asador last weekend, well worth a visit 👍 Amazingly good steak for a food market, if it was twice the price at a proper restaurant I'd have thought it was a bargain
Yeah, it's very near my home and so very convenient, and yet I'm always forgetting about the place. On the few times I've been, it's always been excellent. The only (minor) complaint I've had is that the service can be slow if seated outdoors, but the food is always top notch.
Had a superb meal on Saturday night in Bocelli on Maylor St.
I'm not the greatest fan of Italian but the menu had a great choice of tasty grub.
They were very busy!
https://bocellicork.com/
I used to love YMY, especially their dim sum and lamb curry, but they seem to have gone downhill. Jade Palace on Douglas Street is my regular Chinese takeaway option for now (great onion rings!).
Just on this - car was parked at Paul Street Car Park, had an hour n half drive back home, so thought that we'd pick up coffees to go. Good news - they have O'Connaills chocolate so the kids had decent hot chocolates, but the coffee's were scalding hot when we took the first sip, at that temperatute the I am sure that the coffee will be kinda nuked...
We also got take away's from Yuang Ming Yuang, wife ordered while I was taking the kids to the loo (from the regular menu as I found out later).. and guess what - the food that we ate at home was as good (or bad to be more oprecise) as any local small time bad Chinese takeaway - this was the first poor meal that I have had from there in all our years of eating from there
I wouldn't recommend eating there either.
Okura was good a few days ago in Douglas. That ikura maki (sushi with the salmon roe) is mega. Oysters were good as well. Kids loved the robot waiter.
2 of us had lunch in The Bayleaf Bistro Bandon today - twas delicious - staff wer wonderful and lovely setting - I highly recommend it if ever that way
No, I was going to but a guy came in, you might know him - he’s always around and comes across as a drunk but he’s actually had a stroke. She had her hands full trying to deal with him so I just felt my complaint was pretty insignificant compared to his problems. He actually offered to buy us a coffee. I’d say no one talks to him.
I enjoy masseytown every now and then as I do enjoy the samdwiches/rolls! It's still very hard to justify the pricing tho!
"soled my shoes with it" lol
did you mention it to them?
A crepe is a pancake, no?
Went to Masseytown on Saturday morning. Only went because it was early and not a great selection open. Ordered the coffee and pancakes for me and just a coffee for my daughter. Coffee was really lovely but the pancakes morphed into a crepe. I wasn’t fussed to be honest but by god I could have soled my shoe with it - it was like leather. Even between us we didn’t finish it. Very disappointing.
Had a few plates and some wine in the new wine bar, "Nell's", on Mccurtain Street.
The food is really good. A small enough menu of small plates. They are small, but they are reasonably priced and very good. Light, balanced and simple.
As you might expect, the wine list is good and interesting and they encourage you to taste any wines you want.
I liked it and thought it was good value. If you have a big appetite and are all about big portions, I guess it could get a bit pricy to fill that void.
Had a nice-ish lunch/brunch in Vikkis Sundays Well with friends. Their online booking is fiddly, you've to go back and forth through the options to get to an actual table you can book and some of the options make no sense. Service is distracted, they forgot a few things, we reminded them.. I had a black pudding hash with egg, it was nice, decent quality pudding and the egg was good. spuds were more like a soft mash though, no crispy bits, which is one of the nice bits in a potato hash. Their eggs benny looked good, and the french toast. Brunch chips are tasty (eggs with avocado and a poached egg) but teeny tiny portion served in a cup for 8 euro felt saucy, maybe because of the presentation. You can't really park anywhere nearby, we walked up from fitzgeralds park.
I wouldn't recommend getting a delivery from East Village. The food was terrible. Soggy chips and dry burgers
Had lunch in Sonflour home page (sonflour.ie) over weekend - very nice cool spot, really enjoyed it. Chef seem really nice as well chatting to customers. Food is limited to Pizza, flatbreads and Pasta but all cooked on spot so very fresh and tasty ! Nice wines as welll .. Would recommend for something different :)
I had afternoon tea in the Imperial recently. I had an irritating situation where I needed to cancel a booking with about 27 hours notice due to a positive covid test, and they wouldn't let me do it online and weren't answering their phones. When I finally got through, a person assured me it was cancelled and all was fine. The next working day, I got an email cheerfully informing me I was being charged €40 for non-attendance. It was a SERIOUS effort to get that refunded, and maybe a sign that I shouldn't have rebooked...
Anyway, I did. We stood around like lemons until someone finally came over to us, kind of walked behind us, and then said "yes?" in a slightly accusatory way, before being seated. The area itself is gorgeous, really nicely decorated and looking out on the street. Our server was very young, very inexperienced and clearly had been given minimal training. She did her best, to be fair, but there was lots of having to repeat ourselves about basic things. The actual meal was okay. Sandwiches were a bit non-descript and I wouldn't be able to easily tell you what the fillings were. Scones were nice, served with butter, jam and clotted cream. There were small bars of O'Conaills milk chocolate, which isn't really what I want with afternoon tea tbh. There was a very adorable macaron with a little cowboy hat chocolate decoration, but the macaron itself was terrible. Like, almost inedible. There was a small eclair with a very floral taste to it, like rose or violet. Then a quite large chocolate egg filled with (best guess) a Crème Pâtissière and a small 'yolk' of a caramel/biscuit mix. It was nice, but way too large IMO.
Overall, a nice setting but the poorest actual Afternoon Tea food I've had, I'd say. Cost was €35 per person, which is at the lower end, but in future I'd pay a bit extra for Hayfield Manor or The Kingsley.
Thompsons Brewrey on McCurtain Street do a great lunch deal, starter, main and a drink for €12.
Any buffet / all you can eat restaurants in Cork?
Other than that Chinese place on north main street.
I love a good kebab but I'm not a fan of how they hack big chunks of meat off the kebab tower. The strips should be nice and thin. Like these lads:
Best Döner Kebab Restaurant in Istanbul You Have To Eat At - YouTube
Also speaking of kebabs, if anyone's ever down in Kilkenny you should try Anatolia for a delicious kebab and amazing bread. Absolutely delicious. Dine in the place now, don't walk around the streets with kebab juice all over your face.
Was actually in there on Saturday morning for breakfast and I have to agree, it's a lovely place with really nice food.
Benny McCabe owns it, you'd expect nothing less than excellent
Had lunch in Da Calf Corn Market Centre the other day - fab food - it really is - quality tasty food.. none of your processed crap - home baked goods.. staff are lovely too.. and while there is not much natural light in there, one can still sit by a window and see life in the centre... lovely spot.. open till 5pm every day
Seen it open pretty recently.
Is Crazy Kebab still open? Went there to get kebab around 6pm Saturday evening and it was closed. Just wondering if they are gone
Went to Istanbul for the first time in ages. Still good!
what about Crust on MacCurtain St? Fab toasties.. they butter the bread on both sides.. hmm
Dukes do lovely sandwiches and you can get in and out quickly.
Aside from the city centre, Douglas has far and away the most options in Cork.
