N Square Steakhouse and seafood

Is this the one before lets say if you took the next right you would be heading up towards Blackpool.. Would love to know also if it is any good, we were just saying that Cork City has no nice Fish restaurnat

RoverJames wrote: »

It's only a stones throw from Patrick Street but it's a woeful location I think, horrible, gloomy, sh1tty part of town.

I agree - it's a terrible location.

Sarah86 wrote: »

shilling

You're probably well intentioned, but coming on a thread to promote a business that's clearly yours isn't the best move. It's what's known as Shilling, and it's really obvious.

Been driving past the place for the last few days though, and really thinking of popping in for a Steak!

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Was there Saturday night, great steak and rack of lamb, some interesting complementary north African starters and a smashing creme brulee. Didn't wait long for the food and the table service was excellent. Surprisingly diverse menu too. We left more of a tip then we normally would so I suppose that says a lot. The restaurant itself is nicely done inside, I just hope the slightly out of the way location doesn't hurt them.

What are the prices like? Hoping to go in some eveing this week.

I was tempted to try this place and I'm usually fairly good at putting the word out for positive experiences in new places, e.g. Seamo's, Bierhalle's - excellent value brunch I should add - but the shilling has put me right off. It's a dishonest practice and raises further questions about a business in my mind.

The shilling is annoying (if a bit understandable), but jesus have a sample menu online we can look at. I want to try it but I'm not until I can see a sample menu. If you can spend the time writing fake customer experiences online you scan surely scan a menu and put it on facebook.

The food is good, the restaurant itself is good, the prices are good. Just seems like they need to get their marketing strategy in place! Plastering bus shelters with ads is not the classiest way of going about advertising a nice restaurant. If their website was more than a giant JPG screenshot of their facebook page it might generate more foot traffic...

AmeliaO wrote: »

Jesus lads, would ye chill out! If you were opening a restaurant you'd be advertising in any way ye could aswell! stop being so critical over petty things. the shilling shouldn't have went about it that way - guaranteed but ye're being unnecessary!

Milly33 wrote: »

Take a Chill Pill indeed.. Im delighted this place is getting good reviews hoping to take a trip in there next week perhaps at some stage.. If the seafood is nice well defo go there more often. cant wait..

All I want is a sample menu...

AmeliaO wrote: »

Ah just the crowd it can gather sometimes on the weekend is all - i wouldn't go parking my car by there, one of my friends drove up there to try the place out and she parked outside the place - (Thursday night) and they kicked her window in! So the only annoying thing is like finding a parking space!

Also, don't complain about it on Boards - why not just ring and be like 'oh, when will you have a sample menu up?'

I've been parking in the multistory around the corner (literally next door). Not free, but relatively secure.

gpf101 wrote: »

It's not my job or place to ring them up and tell them to put some sort of sample menu up. At the end of the day I'm just one customer and it's quite possible I'm being odd about it but that's how I feel. Their success or otherwise won't be influenced in the slightest by me going there or not anyway.

Not just you...I would always check out sample menus on a website before deciding where to go unless I have got a recommendation from someone I trust.
The lack of one is a very basic oversight. I guess they will get around to it though...they are new after all.

Good stuff. Not sure what technical difficulties you'd have uploading something to facebook but anyway I'll try them out if I like the look of the menu (and I'm sure I will).

Fair play to someone taking a chance the way things are at the moment.

I wouldn't mind seeing it anyway, but you'd be as well off to ask a Mod for permission.

Mandatory disclaimer :P I'm no financial interest in the place nor do I have friends working there.

I went in there with 2 friends last night and all of us came out both stuffed and extremely happy.

I had;
Starter
tomato salad =~ €4.50. Damn nice, I usually leave bits of salad plates behind me, this one I wanted to wipe with bread to get evey last bit.

Main course
surf 'n turf (seafood and fillet steak) = €29.50. Most people would call this pricy but for that price I got;
2 pieces of steak ( roughly 4&1/2" X 2" or a little bigger)
2 prawns
2 scallops
There was more steak alone than I'm used to getting with a normal steak dinner so I would have been happy with that alone without the seafood for that price


Drink
Glass of wine = €4.50, verryyy nice and a decent glassful

Dessert
Baked Alaska - I can't remember the price but say €5 +/- 50c on averge. Again very nice and something I haven't seen on any restaurant menu in years.

Wait-staff/Serving times
While we were waiting the kitchen sent out a small plate of samosas and mini-quiche and a bread roll each which was unexpected and very nice, it gave us something to nibble on while we waited (very briefly) for the starters (we were famished after slabbing a room all afternoon as we hadn't stopped to eat all day)

The waitresses were attentive, asking if we needed anything without being annoyingly so.

The Chef came out to all the tables during their main meals to make sure everything was okay
The lads had fish cakes, soup then chicken wrapped in bacon and ................ I can't remember finishing with Baileys & Malteeser cheesecake plus choclate cake. They were happy with all 3 courses.

Complaints
None really, just our own stupidity - We couldn't find the main door, it's on the side of the building where the lane is (not the main dual lane road) and you do have to twist a handle which I never spotted so when I pushed the door it didn't open like other restaurant doors so I thought it was an emergency exit and walked away. Although I did see a couple make the same mistake later in the night so I didn't fel too bad