The Quays in Youghal

17/05/2025: Food is just delicious (small portions), and the chickpeas chips are divine! So good! Staff is very welcoming and they really take care of you. Music was great, and the ambience is delightful (everything curated to the details apart from the stage where they perform - a bit of a sad golden curtain. This is me being a perfectionist but part of my job). Lovely experience and perfect for a date (however music can be relatively loud so might not be the right place for the very first date if you want to get to know each other). If you are vegan, they only have vegan desserts but can adapt recepies by removing ingredients (which is slightly annoying as we often end up paying the same for less, somehow)

12/05/2025: I personally did not enjoy this place as much as some other cocktail bars in London. The atmosphere is created nicely in African / Latin American style. The cocktails were good but not all of them. Acadia and Route Napoleon were both great. Cities of the plan was too strong to me although I love mezcal-based cocktails. Rio verde was just good but I would not order it in a cocktails bar. The food overall was underwhelming. Tar tare could have been good if not that salty. Charred octopus was just okay. Pork katsu Sando was good and the pork was reasonably tender but again nothing special. There was a band playing music and closer to the end of the evening they started to call people on stage, have a train running around the bar etc - so the atmosphere was definitely different from your average cocktail bar and while a lot of visitors enjoyed it, I would be looking for something else. The service was not the level I’d expect. I ordered a cocktail and in addition to it just not being available, I only learnt about it 15 minutes after my order