The Restaurant Recommendation Thread

the beer revolu · 21-01-2014 03:25PM

CAUN wrote: »

Went to Iyer's the other day. Meh. Got a takeaway lunch - 5 styrofoam tubs of cumin-covered stuff. Beetroot with cumin flavoured sauce. Chickpeas with cumin. What seemed to be water with cumin and one mint leaf. Actually tasted a bit like wee. Some sort of soup with cumin. Nicest thing was a tiny thimble-sized tub of cold salad/seed stuff. Oh and the rice was dry. Was left starving after paying a tenner. The missus was even more starving as she couldn't eat the cumin beetroot, cumin soup or cumin weewee. (Too much cumin.)

Now, I heard the menu changes every day, so maybe I was unlucky. I am willing to give them one more chance.

I would never go there to eat in - the place is too small. When I was paying at the till there was a couple seated beside me and I might as well have stood on their table.

Taste is a very subjective thing.
I wouldn't bother going back if I were you - it clearly isn't your thing.
I on the other hand eat there about once a week - it's a style of food that I love - light and flavourful.
Doorley, gave it a rare glowing review recently.

"Gautham Iyer is cooking the most exciting food in Cork just now. And the best vegetarian food in Ireland"

CAUN · 21-01-2014 04:36PM

the beer revolu wrote: »

I wouldn't bother going back if I were you - it clearly isn't your thing.

Woah! ... I guessed a die hard Iyer's fan would latch on to my post but not this quickly! Sorry to have offended your darling cafe.

It IS my thing though. I love exotic food, especially Indian. That's why I said I'll give it another chance as the menu changes daily.

Everything tasted of cumin which I found bland - there was no real variation in flavour. It's a valid complaint.

And the rice was dry. Another valid complaint.

Is dry rice your "thing"?

Anyway my expectations were way too high.

the beer revolu · 21-01-2014 04:47PM

CAUN wrote: »

Woah! ... I guessed a die hard Iyer's fan would latch on to my post but not this quickly! Sorry to have offended your darling cafe.

It IS my thing though. I love exotic food, especially Indian. That's why I said I'll give it another chance as the menu changes daily.

Everything tasted of cumin which I found bland - there was no real variation in flavour. It's a valid complaint.

And the rice was dry. Another valid complaint.

Is dry rice your "thing"?

Anyway my expectations were way too high.

It's not offensive, it's your opinion.
The menu doesn't change that much - if you didn't like it once, you probably won't like it again.
I don't see the issue with dry rice. How do you want it - mushy?
There is a sambar to go with the rice - you know the stuff that tasted a bit like wee? That is wet.

Iyer's has little in common to any other Indian food I've ever had in Ireland.

Twould be a very boring world if we all liked the same things!

pwurple · 21-01-2014 04:48PM

I love Iyers too, I've even gotten them to catering batches of stuff for us, but I've defo got stuff there that I wasn't particularly keen on. There was a dip which didn't take my fancy at all, and some sort of vegetable I didn't like the taste of which was battered. But overall, the good outweighed the stuff I didn't like.

Did you get a dhosa?

CAUN · 21-01-2014 05:01PM

They didn't have the dhosa for take away unfortunately.

I consider myself quite excellent at cooking rice. I just thought it was dry. Perhaps they didn't use enough water.

angeline · 21-01-2014 05:08PM

Hey folks. Going for dinner Saturday night. Wanted to book the Club Brasserie but they are booked out

Thinking of booking Les Gourmandises, have never been here though. Anyone recommend it?

pwurple · 21-01-2014 05:11PM

CAUN wrote: »

They didn't have the dhosa for take away unfortunately.

I consider myself quite excellent at cooking rice. I just thought it was dry. Perhaps they didn't use enough water.

I doubt they use liquid water if they are doing it properly... rice is steamed.

pwurple · 21-01-2014 05:11PM

angeline wrote: »

Hey folks. Going for dinner Saturday night. Wanted to book the Club Brasserie but they are booked out Thinking of booking Les Gourmandises, have never been here though. Anyone recommend it?

Les Gourmandises is really a lovely place, very nice for special occasions like birthdays. The owners are adorable and the food is yummy.

sporina · 21-01-2014 05:36PM

with regards to iyers - i feel there is a lot of personal opinion here - either for the place or against those who are for the place - getting boring.

Les Gourmandais is fab fab fab…

Annies on sundays well is also special… if you have not yet been… will go back there soon..

had a terrible meal in club brasserie - fish was so over cooked we were not charged for it - but there was a 40th on and they were v v busy so would try it again.. but not on a night when its that busy...

CAUN · 21-01-2014 06:51PM

pwurple wrote: »

I doubt they use liquid water if they are doing it properly... rice is steamed.

Maybe it is in your house.

You need liqud water to cook rice.

ABajaninCork · 21-01-2014 07:14PM

CAUN wrote: »

Maybe it is in your house.

You need liqud water to cook rice.

Most Indian restaurants I know steam their rice.

madrasi · 21-01-2014 08:24PM

CAUN wrote: »

Maybe it is in your house.

You need liqud water to cook rice.

Most Indian people (including at my house) steam rice. Boiling rice makes starch.

Nonoperational · 21-01-2014 08:40PM

CAUN wrote: »

Maybe it is in your house.

You need liqud water to cook rice.

Jeez man take it easy with the attitude. You didn't like Iyers, absolutely fine. Plenty places I don't like that are recommended here. That's the way it goes with restaurants!

Pabmac · 21-01-2014 11:00PM

pwurple wrote: »

Les Gourmandises is really a lovely place, very nice for special occasions like birthdays. The owners are adorable and the food is yummy.

I like Les Gourmandises too. A while since ive been though. Thought it was a bit pricey and portions rather small. Must try it again sometime.

the beer revolu · 22-01-2014 09:59AM

CAUN wrote: »

I consider myself quite excellent at cooking rice.

Maybe you should offer to teach Gautham how to do it properly!;)

SteelyDanJalapeno · 22-01-2014 10:03AM

How do people think steam is made?!

leahyl · 22-01-2014 10:35AM

Ok guys going slightly off topic here - let's keep it to a discussion on restaurant recommendations and not how to cook rice!

BanzaiBk · 26-01-2014 05:10PM

Went to Gallo and Galetti with the OH at lunch as she works in the CUH. It was lovely. The staff were great too. Is it a busy place? The location seems a bit strange to me but then again it's surrounded by residential estates and stuff so it can't be too bad.

sporina · 27-01-2014 10:23AM

what the story with the bobas bubble tea place on maccurtain street? is it closed already? passed the other day at 12pm and it was shut

Nonoperational · 27-01-2014 09:51PM

BanzaiBk wrote: »

Went to Gallo and Galetti with the OH at lunch as she works in the CUH. It was lovely. The staff were great too. Is it a busy place? The location seems a bit strange to me but then again it's surrounded by residential estates and stuff so it can't be too bad.

It's never too busy any thine I'm there, but I think it's really great. Must go there soon actually!

Faith · 27-01-2014 10:27PM

Going for dinner in town for my birthday next month. It's not a milestone birthday, so somewhere not too fancy, but not too casual. I'm thinking Electric, but am I missing somewhere really obvious?

sporina · 27-01-2014 10:29PM

Faith wrote: »

Going for dinner in town for my birthday next month. It's not a milestone birthday, so somewhere not too fancy, but not too casual. I'm thinking Electric, but am I missing somewhere really obvious?

depends on what you want and what you are into?

Faith · 27-01-2014 10:56PM

sporina wrote: »

depends on what you want and what you are into?

I had a big long post typed out, but by the end of it, I think I'd decided Electric was probably my best bet

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Dave47 · 30-01-2014 02:39PM

Went to bookshelf on 90th south mall- excellent coffee and freshly baked snacks too- best coffee I've had in Cork so far but have a few more to scope out :P

who_me · 30-01-2014 04:48PM

Was in Nosta (Marlborough St.) last weekend, nice enough decor for a 'modern' restaurant, the food (fillet steak) was fine. Only complaint was I and those at the next table were asked to move to another table (in a "Move to another table!" kind of way). Was seated at the back - practically in the kitchen - so didn't mind; though as it's a glass-fronted restaurant the front of the restaurant was very cold, especially as people were entering or leaving.

On the plus side, the waitress was gorgeous, so 11/10.

sporina · 30-01-2014 08:55PM

who_me wrote: »

Was in Nosta (Marlborough St.) last weekend, nice enough decor for a 'modern' restaurant, the food (fillet steak) was fine. Only complaint was I and those at the next table were asked to move to another table (in a "Move to another table!" kind of way). Was seated at the back - practically in the kitchen - so didn't mind; though as it's a glass-fronted restaurant the front of the restaurant was very cold, especially as people were entering or leaving.

On the plus side, the waitress was gorgeous, so 11/10.

this is my complaint with Nosta also - and we felt the draught in summer too

leahyl · 31-01-2014 02:14PM

Has anybody been to Tara's Tea Room on MacCurtain Street? It looks savage from the pics on its facebook page anyway! Can't wait to try it soon!

Dave47 · 31-01-2014 05:42PM

Dave47 wrote: »

Went to bookshelf on 90th south mall- excellent coffee and freshly baked snacks too- best coffee I've had in Cork so far but have a few more to scope out :P

Actually on that note if people wouldn't mind listing their top places for coffee I'd be all ears :P

Also what's the best place for a sandwich nowadays with the stall at the english market closed? :P

pwurple · 31-01-2014 09:20PM

Dave47 wrote: »

Also what's the best place for a sandwich nowadays with the stall at the english market closed? :P

Surely the sandwich stall isn't closed! I thought it was just iagos?

sporina · 31-01-2014 09:21PM

Dave47 wrote: »

Actually on that note if people wouldn't mind listing their top places for coffee I'd be all ears :P

Also what's the best place for a sandwich nowadays with the stall at the english market closed? :P

i adore the bookshelf so much that i almost don't wanna say it incase it gets too manic and starts to change how it operates.. its like from home to home..

for coffee FILTER on O sullivan's quay is da absolute jawb!!!

what sandwich stall is closed? the one opposite O connell's seafood?

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