Goldie in Cork

Great restaurant! Beautiful experience. The fish is lovely. And so is the wine selection and dessert. Everything was perfect!

Our Airbnb host recommended Goldie's and I had seen a wonderful review on Instagram that lead us to the restaurant. The service was phenomenal, however, our food was just good. Fish nuggets and the fried hake with cured egg were delicious! Our courgette buds tasted too vegetative and without much filling, which was disappointing. I ordered the main hake and while the fish itself was perfect, the rice and sauce were very fishy and vegetative. My husband enjoyed his brill and the wine selection was great. Overall, our party had a good experience.

Amazing experience, the flavours of each dish were exquisite , incredible presentations and service. Allen spent time explaining the menu in great depth and detail , as well as suggesting most loved dishes and wine pairings. Open kitchen which was fascinating to watch the preparation of each dish as it came out . Highly recommend fish nuggets and all the hot small plates

What can you say really, except it's one of the best dining experiences I had. Absolutely top notch, food is immaculate and service perfect. Absolutely perfect!

Small, informal restaurant with open kitchen. My experience was of excellent quality, the attentive service, the trained and professional dining room staff. I was amazed by how the ingredients are treated and combined, all the dishes, from the appetizers (small plates) to the desserts, not at all obvious, technically well made. Congratulations to everyone, kitchen and dining room. I recommend trying the oysters with pickled red onion granita and lovage oil. I spent €45.00 without the wine, which in my opinion was a fair price. If you are in Cork and don't want the usual fish dishes, visit this restaurant.

Amazing restaurant, can't recommend the cured cod small plate enough!

Small restaurant in the center of Cork, we had dinner for two, tasting some original and well-made dishes. Unusual and refined combinations with a contained menu that pays attention to the product. Good menu and wines. Informal and pleasant service. The place is small so it's best to book. The only negative note are some high tables where you eat on stools that are not very comfortable and with music that makes conversation tiring.

Food was phenomenal and inspired. Lots of small plates made for a really diverse meal. Service was outstanding. Wonderful wines by the glass and more. Highly recommend as the food highlight of my trip to Ireland!

I’m from Cork and I have passed this place 1000s of times and tonight had a fabulous food experience!!! Totally class and just wow !!! Flavours non stop and we’ll be back even if the menu changes day from day!!! The way the menu was explained was mouth watering!!! And the food did not disappoint!!! I like food and my God I am looking forward to coming back here !!! Snacks , small plates !! The choices !! The way they were explained!! Mouth watering listening to them !!! Had a variety of small plates and one main, the Dover Sole!! Tastes are abundant 👍👍 Staff fabulous too.

As a synopsis, in my humble experience, I found our meal to be more of an impressive dining experience rather than a great meal. The ethos appears to be aimed at people having a dining experience, ordering various plates as they socialise and drink wine for than being structured around the food itself. The menu is limited and designed around snacks (nibbles), small plates (starters), mains, sides (which you will require) and desserts. The menu takes liberal licence in describing the ingredients of the dishes to both entice the taste buds and maybe convince the pompous that they are dining something more complicated than it really is !! i.e. signing frog beets are simple beets grown by singing frog gardens Firstly the positives, the ambiance is lovely and the service, which I believe to be as long lasting a memory as the food, is excellent. We were sat within the first floor dining area and the young man serving us was knowledgeable, helpful, polite and friendly without in any way being intrusive on our dining experience or being bias to any particular dish. My partner commenced with the highly recommended "Taiwanese fish nuggets" from the "Snacks" section, which were very unimpressive in their presentation to the table and desperately required an "aioli" as the spiced batter made the nuggets very dry on the palate. I commenced with "small plate" monk cheek which was presented well and ate every bit as good as it looked, however I would consider it to be over priced for what you receive. For main my partner choose Monkfish, served on a bomba rice and a very nice fennel aioli, which again was presented and ate well, however, the monkfish was also a little overdone, a comment I heard repeated from a nearby diner. I choose the highly recommended hake, due to such being serve with the restaurants signature "chicken and miso butter sauce" which in my opinion was a total non event with regards to flavor, furthermore it was nowhere near viscous enough to coat the under seasoned hake, which desperately required such. We both tried a spoon of solely the very bland butter sauce and neither of us thought is tasted of very much at all nor brought anything to the dish. However I again did overhear another diner to comment "the waiter was right the hake dish is all about the sauce" so who knows ! and the server did seem shocked when I informed him that in my opinion the sauce was sadly lacking. I also thought the turnip served with the hake dish was poorly conceived, in that it was visually unappealing in colour and too autumnal in flavor, overpowering the hake. As a diner. I believe that a roast carrot accompaniment would have been a far better ingredient to embellish the dish. We also (on the servers recommendation) ordered a side of colecannon, a wise choice as it turn out. The colcannon is served as a generous portion, which both dishes required so as to be considered substantial. For dessert we choose a lime pannacotta with a very intense strawberry sorbet and a caramelised white chocolate ( ganach / set moose ) with milk sorbet. Both desserts were well balanced, well presented and well priced. So in conclusion, as stated for a dining experience it was fine and I'm glad we went, however, I have had significantly better meals elsewhere. That said the protracted waiting period for a reservation at this restaurant, suggests a lot of people do not agree with me !