wine bars in cork?

badgerbaiter · 17-10-2011 10:08pm #1

Anyone know of a good wine bar in cork city?

evilivor · 17-10-2011 10:19pm

badgerbaiter wrote: »

Anyone know of a good wine bar in cork city?

Despite the limited opening, I think Meades is lovely. Especially this time of year, bottle of wine by the fire, hard to beat. Not flash but very homely.

On Oliver Plunkett street. You can, if you want, get food from Milano across the street and eat in the bar.

iliketeaandcake · 18-10-2011 1:34am

Agree with above poster. Gulpd cafe in the triskel arts centre is fantastic too. They stay open v late at the weekend. Lovely laid back atmosphere.

Malari · 18-10-2011 10:36am

Boqueria on Bridge St is a really bustling lively place if you like that kind of thing. Ring and book if you want a table though.

Pity Cruibin is closed. Miss that place! I actually thought Meade's was closed too. Haven't been there in a while.

Faith · 18-10-2011 1:40pm

Isn't Meades closed? I haven't seen it open in months now.

evilivor · 18-10-2011 2:13pm

Faith wrote: »

Isn't Meades closed? I haven't seen it open in months now.

It appears you're right - talking to a friend of the owner at lunchtime - closed for the foreseeable future.

reic · 18-10-2011 6:21pm

What's the place on Washington Street like, next to the river, across from DAOL.

Faith · 18-10-2011 6:46pm

evilivor wrote: »

It appears you're right - talking to a friend of the owner at lunchtime - closed for the foreseeable future.

This makes me sad, although I knew it already

Dermighty · 18-10-2011 7:44pm

reic wrote: »

What's the place on Washington Street like, next to the river, across from DAOL.

That's Indigo. Formerly Cafe De La Paix.

You could also try Gusto on on thursday/friday/saturday it has a late opening, never been there for that side of their business though, only get coffee and sandwiches.

urbanachiever1 · 18-10-2011 7:59pm

Went to Meade's recently to discover too that it is closed. pity. Went to Boqueria instead and was disappointed. Nice measure of good wine but the Asian staff member was not very nice and then they started blowing out candles early and generally telling my date and I to leave. (it was half hour before the advertised closing time.)

Malari · 18-10-2011 8:27pm

urbanachiever1 wrote: »

Went to Meade's recently to discover too that it is closed. pity. Went to Boqueria instead and was disappointed. Nice measure of good wine but the Asian staff member was not very nice and then they started blowing out candles early and generally telling my date and I to leave. (it was half hour before the advertised closing time.)

Ha, we had a similar...abrupt encounter with that Asian staff member! We basically came in for a drink but before we ordered she demanded to know if we booked a table. I started to say no and explain we didn't want to eat, but she cut me off and was incredulous we hadn't booked and rushed off to find the manager to see if we could be served at the bar! We were standing there saying 'we just want a drink!' I thought it was because she was new and trying to be efficient :-)

Gusto is quite nice. And you can BYO...although maybe you don't want that if you are looking for a wine bar. The food is lovely in Gusto and very reasonable. But not the most comfortable seating for a any length of time.

PerthGirl · 23-10-2011 3:14pm

Malari wrote: »

urbanachiever1 wrote: »

Went to Meade's recently to discover too that it is closed. pity. Went to Boqueria instead and was disappointed. Nice measure of good wine but the Asian staff member was not very nice and then they started blowing out candles early and generally telling my date and I to leave. (it was half hour before the advertised closing time.)

Ha, we had a similar...abrupt encounter with that Asian staff member! We basically came in for a drink but before we ordered she demanded to know if we booked a table. I started to say no and explain we didn't want to eat, but she cut me off and was incredulous we hadn't booked and rushed off to find the manager to see if we could be served at the bar! We were standing there saying 'we just want a drink!' I thought it was because she was new and trying to be efficient :-)

Gusto is quite nice. And you can BYO...although maybe you don't want that if you are looking for a wine bar. The food is lovely in Gusto and very reasonable. But not the most comfortable seating for a any length of time.

Running off to find the manager? I was under the impression said staff member was the manager.

Such a shame that Irish girl isn't working behind the bar anymore. She was great. Her cocktails were unreal!

Malari · 23-10-2011 4:26pm

I didnt get the impression she was management. She wasn't very efficient anyway!

dudara · 24-10-2011 12:56pm

PerthGirl wrote: »

Such a shame that Irish girl isn't working behind the bar anymore. She was great. Her cocktails were unreal!

Was that the blonde girl? She made great mojitos. Boqueria is a fustrating spot - sometimes it's great, other times it's average. They seem to change the menu regularly and it's not always the same quality.

I've heard on Twitter of a new wine bar opening soon called L'Atitude 51. Don't know where it is though.

deRanged · 24-10-2011 1:24pm

dudara wrote: »

I've heard on Twitter of a new wine bar opening soon called L'Atitude 51. Don't know where it is though.

they're keeping the venue secret for some reason. I've heard a couple of rumours - hopefully it'll be good. they've mentioned doing food too, which would be a great idea.

evilivor · 24-10-2011 1:26pm

dudara wrote: »

Boqueria is a fustrating spot - sometimes it's great, other times it's average.

Agree wholeheartedly: went in a while back, for the first time in ages - it was was friendly, it was good value, the food was fab and it was just terrific.

Went back a couple of months later and, it was unfriendly - I believe the staff member has been mentioned above a few times - it was far from good value and the food was distinctly, meh.

chakotha · 24-10-2011 1:28pm

Bar Pigalle next door to Tom Barry's on Barrack St.

Malari · 24-10-2011 1:40pm

chakotha wrote: »

Bar Pigalle next door to Tom Barry's on Barrack St.

Ah, this is a place I really want to try!

Also, I heard over the weekend that Italee, the coffee place on Oliver Plunkett St also does wine and food? I haven't been there either, so can't corroborate!

opus · 24-10-2011 8:23pm

dudara wrote: »

I've heard on Twitter of a new wine bar opening soon called L'Atitude 51. Don't know where it is though.

A friend of mine is involved in the new bar, in fact they're running a competition on Facebook at the moment to guess where it is. Not sure of the opening date yet but I'll find out more this week.

evilivor · 24-10-2011 8:59pm

opus wrote: »

dudara wrote: »

I've heard on Twitter of a new wine bar opening soon called L'Atitude 51. Don't know where it is though.

A friend of mine is involved in the new bar, in fact they're running a competition on Facebook at the moment to guess where it is. Not sure of the opening date yet but I'll find out more this week.

That the Lobby as was, latterly an cruibin?

dudara · 30-10-2011 7:23pm

That's my thoughts also. I emailed them, they're expecting to open end of November.

Fea · 20-11-2011 1:45pm

Wondering is this where the Cruibin was? It is currently being renovated and heard a wine shop & bar being set up.

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Malari · 20-11-2011 1:51pm

Called Latitude, I believe. Can't wait for it to open, hope it's nice!

opus · 08-12-2011 9:34pm

Malari wrote: »

Called Latitude, I believe. Can't wait for it to open, hope it's nice!

Opened last weekend!

Malari · 08-12-2011 10:03pm

I think it wasn't fully open till a couple of nights ago. I walk past it regularly and although I saw people inside, the doors were shut! Will try it out this weekend.

deRanged · 09-12-2011 12:02am

I'm hoping to get in next week, this week got away from me. I've seen some good reviews on twitter already.

kcb · 09-12-2011 1:52pm

I heard La Dolce Vita are planning on opening a bar upstairs.

mimihops · 16-01-2012 11:20pm

anyone get around to trying the latitude wine bar yet? is it nice?

Dermighty · 17-01-2012 3:37pm

urbanachiever1 wrote: »

Went to Meade's recently to discover too that it is closed. pity. Went to Boqueria instead and was disappointed. Nice measure of good wine but the Asian staff member was not very nice and then they started blowing out candles early and generally telling my date and I to leave. (it was half hour before the advertised closing time.)

The staff there are generally ****e, such as me ordering 2 different measures of x and y and getting larger measures instead (great if it was a free mistake but it wasn't, i drank it anyway :P)

Dermighty · 17-01-2012 3:38pm

chakotha wrote: »

Bar Pigalle next door to Tom Barry's on Barrack St.

I went there just after it opened and it was very cool, well worth a visit.

Malari · 17-01-2012 3:43pm

mimihops wrote: »

anyone get around to trying the latitude wine bar yet? is it nice?

I've been in a couple of times, just for a glass of wine around 7pm or so - haven't eaten there yet. It was very quiet at that time, and the atmosphere seems totally different to Cruibin. The wine menu is extensive! And only written up on a blackboard on the left as you go in, so it's not the easiest to read, especially if someone is sitting under it :pac:

I just asked at the bar for a recommendation, and they were helpful. It's somewhere I'd try again, maybe later in the evening so there's a bit of a buzz going.

opus · 03-02-2012 9:28pm

Good review from Tom Doorley (whatever you might think of him

)

I would urge the people of Cork to take L'Atitude to their hearts.

And I am doing so for an utterly selfish reason.

I want it to thrive so it's still there when I want it. And I could
imagine myself wanting it rather a lot. The bill was a few euro shy of
70 euros and we both ate and drank very, very well. Which is what this
place is about.

You can read the whole thing here but you need to set up a fake account.

evilivor · 24-04-2012 12:08pm

Worth a bump, good quality new wine bar opened up this month. Arthur Mayne on Pembroke Street, formerly a chemist, now an old style bar with new-fangled wine dispenser stuff, which I have yet to try out, - I went old school, by the bottle. I didn't eat there but food looked good.

Online blog review from someone here. It's going to give the Boqueria and L’Atitude 51 a serious run for their money as it was very busy the night I was there.

draiochtanois · 24-04-2012 2:13pm

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evilivor · 24-04-2012 2:27pm

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They. Only. Serve. Wine.

…and bottled beers, coffee, tea. I think that makes it a wine bar. In the same sense as L’Atitude 51 where they also, only serve beers, coffee, tea. Okay?

As for Arthur Mayne's, I suspect the owner is not highly qualified - not that it matters one jot - he is not working there…

draiochtanois · 24-04-2012 2:31pm

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evilivor · 24-04-2012 2:37pm

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The emphasis is as outlined his interview in the Irish Examiner: "the main business will be bar sales, coffees, food to go with wine (Benny McCabe dislikes the word tapas) and there’s a state-of-the-art wine Italian Enomatic dispenser (the second such in Ireland, and seen in Gordon’s 1890 wine bar in London) for special bottles, operated by a credit card mechanism, that will give tastes, small or large glasses, of selected wines, all of them kept absolutely fresh by the use of nitrogen gas — all very medicinal, surely."

Couldn't be clearer - it's a wine bar.

draiochtanois · 24-04-2012 3:11pm

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curly from cork · 24-04-2012 5:52pm

evilivor wrote: »

Worth a bump, good quality new wine bar opened up this month. Arthur Mayne on Pembroke Street, formerly a chemist, now an old style bar with new-fangled wine dispenser stuff, which I have yet to try out, - I went old school, by the bottle. I didn't eat there but food looked good.

Online blog review from someone here. It's going to give the Boqueria and L’Atitude 51 a serious run for their money as it was very busy the night I was there.

All makes sense now a friend of mine tagged himself in arthur maynes pharmacy and wine bar. I thought it was a complete P take.. as in he was looking for a cure

Good luck to them.

Chad_Fantastics · 25-04-2012 12:22pm

Went to one of L'attitudes speaker nights a few weeks back, interesting way to spend a evening, tasted half a dozen wines, tapas with each one for 15 quid, could have upgraded to a 3 course meal for 15 more.

Like the small measure for 2.50, lets you work through the vast menu is a resonable amount of time and not a big hit if you don't like something.

Went to Meades a lot back in the day, nice spot but room temperature was waaaaay too cold for the reds.

Stuck the head into Mayne's when walking for the bus last week, not a beer bar vibe so I'd come down it being a actual wine bar. Good looking place but maybe too put together? Anyhoo, it's number 1 on the list for the next visit into town.

Big Tone · 25-04-2012 6:01pm

badgerbaiter wrote: »

Anyone know of a good wine bar in cork city?

There's a new one where the Lobby used to be, across from City Hall.

eurokev · 25-04-2012 8:27pm

32 marlboro street is a great spot. Its kind of half way in between a wine bar and a normal bar. Really chic and kind burlesque interior. Some great wines and beers though.

Had a bottle of Niki Tika the a couple of weekends ago.

Yum

mimihops · 26-04-2012 10:33am

Popped into Arthur Maynes last night and I really liked it. Love the idea of the wine dispenser & that you can try a few different wines, the whole place is something a bit fresh and different anyway for Cork. Will be back at the weekend I reckon and will try some food next time!

Chad_Fantastics · 07-05-2012 8:58am

In AM's last night, choc full and maybe suffering from being 'the' spot of the minute for the Sunday indo wannabe's, really didn't like the atmosphere at all.

But it's good to see a place a success I suppose, had popped into marlborough 32, 30th on so didn't stay but looked a nice spot.

Buceph · 07-05-2012 7:22pm

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

In AM's last night, choc full and maybe suffering from being 'the' spot of the minute for the Sunday indo wannabe's, really didn't like the atmosphere at all.

I went in on Friday night around 11.30, the place was packed. We're primarily beer drinkers (Franciscan/Bierhaus/Abbot's type beer) but we had previously had a good night in L'Attitude so we said we'd give it a try. Walked in and walked straight out again, seems far too much like a hotspot of the month. I hope it continues for the owners, it's just my idea of having a good glass of wine isn't standing about and getting jostled. L'Attitude is far more chilled and I like studying the board for the next glass you're going to have.

eurokev · 07-05-2012 7:45pm

Buceph wrote: »

I went in on Friday night around 11.30, the place was packed. We're primarily beer drinkers (Franciscan/Bierhaus/Abbot's type beer) but we had previously had a good night in L'Attitude so we said we'd give it a try. Walked in and walked straight out again, seems far too much like a hotspot of the month. I hope it continues for the owners, it's just my idea of having a good glass of wine isn't standing about and getting jostled. L'Attitude is far more chilled and I like studying the board for the next glass you're going to have.

+1

exactly the type I look for, must give this place a try, didnt like an cruibin too much so was apprhensive about going there, will try now though

Chad_Fantastics · 09-05-2012 10:57pm

L'attitude has a speaker/tasting night tomorrow, French wine type which I've no hope of being able to spell. They normally have a tapas to go with each glass. There's a New Zealand one later in the month, will be catching that one I hope.

opus · 10-05-2012 6:14am

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

L'attitude has a speaker/tasting night tomorrow, French wine type which I've no hope of being able to spell. They normally have a tapas to go with each glass. There's a New Zealand one later in the month, will be catching that one I hope.

That French wine type would be Beaujolais

BEAUJOLAIS TASTING (Thursday 10th May 7.00-8.30pm)
The first one, in association with Karwigs Wines, takes place on Wednesday May 10th from 7pm with Loic Teymond of Chateau de Chatelard, a Beaujolais producer, making wines in the Fleurie, Moulin a Vent and Brouilly appellations. Loic will guide you through a tasting of 4 of his wines and introduce you to this interesting winemaking region in France.

Beaulolais produces predominantly red wines from the Gamay grape using an unusual technique known as carbonic maceration. Nestled between Burgundy and the Rhone Valley, it often gets overshadowed by its more well-known neighbours; however, Beaujolais also produces some very good quality wines which are well worth investigating. No better opportunity now that we're coming into the summer (or what we hope will be a summer). Vines have been cultivated on the Chateau de Chatelard domain since it was created in the time of Charlemagne in the eighth century. This chateau is fanatical about quality, both in the farming and in the winemaking.

FRANKLAND RIVER TASTING (Wednesday May 23rd 6.30- 8.30pm)
The second one, in association with Wines Direct, takes place on Thursday May 23rd with Sandy and Rod Hallett of Alkoomi Wines based in the Frankland River region of Western Australia. Sandy and Rod will give a presentation on the Frankland River area and will guide you through a tasting of 6 of their wines.

Located in Western Australia’s Great Southern approximately 360 kilometres south-east of Perth, Frankland River is one of Australia’s fastest growing wine regions. Although viticulture began in the Frankland River region in 1969, it has only more recently become known as a significant producer of premium quality Western Australian wines. This is one of the coolest wine producing regions in Western Australia.

Cheeses, charcuterie and light snacks will be served to match each wine. The cost for the Beaujolais tasting is €10 per person and for the Alkoomi it's €15.00 per person.

MJOR · 10-05-2012 6:31am

I liked AM's and was quite pleased with the quality of wines there myself. I would call it a wine bar for sure. At least 70 per cent were drinking wine and it's pretty obvious that every business has to be versatile as not everybody drinks wine or indeed alcohol. .......... 32 Malborough street is quite nice too.

tong po · 16-05-2012 5:02pm

Was in AM'S for a bite and a bottle . Who ever trained the staff should be applauded . Their product knowlage was spot on , and I would be critical with over 30 years experience in the hotel trade .

evilivor · 09-10-2012 9:07pm

Meades is closing down again.

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