The Groves in Cork

14/05/2025: An amazing experience in an industry that can be complacent. Lovely venue with a high end vibe, even better when a sunny afternoon in May. Tyrone the manager, is an old school publican who wants his clientele to have an experience. If you don't visit this place on your trip, you're missing an open space area that caters for sun, shade and good staff.

10/05/2025: Room for improvement: Guy working at the door was great, got us at a table straight away. We were told to order drinks at the bar and then we be able to order food. We got our drinks (there was 7 staff behind the bar and only one card machine, after each of them poured their drinks they were fighting over the card machine to take payment for the orders) We waited for an hour before grabbing attention of the waitress to order food . Ordered our food and asked for drinks as well, only because we saw other tables having their served. The waitress wasn’t sure so she went away to ask and came back to tell us that’s it’s not possible and that we had to get them at the bar. We didn’t mind as much since we were doing from the start. After getting another round of drinks and sitting back at the table we proceeded to see other tables be served their drinks. We waited 40 minutes only for the table next to us (that put in their order after us) get their food served before us, that’s when we got the attention of another waitress to ask about our order only to be told that it was never taken in the end. We were offered to take our order there and then and it be done as priority but at that stage we were okay, so we decided to finish our drinks and leave. Just before we left the guy that was working at the door came over and said it must have been miscommunication and explained that the waitress should have taken the payment straight away. This is the reason the review isn’t lower star rating.