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26/03/2026: Amazing food and everyone was super friendly!

22/02/2026: Should advertise that on Sunday only take away very limited stuff in counter. Lucky Holly's cafe beside it open .

01/05/2026: Waiting 1 hour 15 mins for delivery ordered direct with chipper. €5 delivery....Avoid

10/04/2026: Just bought this fish. So dry, had to pick pieces from the middle out. Was also freezing cold. Silvio's food is unfit to eat for the price. Silvio you need to step your game up.

20/02/2026: Really disappointed, order from here quite often. Ordered for delivery. Got confirmation at 8:10pm for food to be here for 8:55pm. Had to message at 9:15pm food had still not arrived. Promised delivery for 9:30pm. Food did not arrive until 9:45pm. Restaurant didn’t even apologise when we called asking where food was. When we got the food. Fish was cold and was 70% batter and grease. Chips were rubbery and cold too.

26/01/2026: My chicken was OK, the chips were not the best and my friends dinner was not great, he had a kebab tray and chips which wasn't the best. The service needs a bit of tuning too. The good thing is that it opens til very late.

19/04/2026: Very disappointing meal. We were there to celebrate a family milestone birthday. While the service is very friendly and efficient the food is mediocre and overpriced. We went with the set menu priced at €60 with an extra €15 for the steak (which was tough), we asked for chips instead of potatoes and were told we would be charged an extra €8 per head which brought it to over €80 for the set menu. Desserts are prepared in advance but very nice. Starter was nice too (prawn ravioli). Much better value off site in Blackrock or nearby areas. The room lacked atmosphere and didn’t feel like somewhere to linger.

19/05/2026: Asked for no pickles on my big Mac and I open the big Mac and there’s pickles on it

13/05/2026: It's MC Donalds, food people should probably never eat but I did. The coffee is good.

13/05/2026: The only drive thru where you have to place the order and wait in the parking area to get the food. Such an embarrassment to represent a multi national restaurant cult.

13/05/2026: The fact that they made us wait in the parking lot for the food after ordering the food fron drive thru is ridiculous.

29/04/2026: Used to be great, has really gone down hill. Potentially new owners? Went from something special to a generic takeaway.

20/03/2026: Burger was good, fries were really gross. No cheese in the poutine and the guy serving us was rude.

29/05/2026: A beautiful platonic have a drink with friends 🧡

25/04/2026: We ordered two carbonara pizzas. The dough was good but We ordered two carbonara pizzas. The dough was good but there was no bacon on it, not at all. We also explained it to the waiter but he laughed about it too. The pizza was very sad to see.

06/04/2026: An absolute gem of a pizza store. Situated in a neighborhood with houses all around the terraced complex. The food is great, custom pizza orders for the win! Made just the way we like them, it's not the usual pizza style that you find everywhere on Ireland. Lovely pizza and the sides were very complementary. I would recommend Pizza max to anyone who will listen.

18/10/2025: This place has some serious issues, first of all the i found the place not Hygienic i got a table next to a leaking wall and a bucket below it to collect the water. The service was poor, and disrespectful. I never asked for tap water but she provided with one and it literally had mud in it. I won't recommend this place unless you want to get sick eating from here.

05/08/2025: Excellent Chinese, full menu with lots of choices. Service was friendly and the food delicious. We ate in the dining room and enjoyed a pot of tea with our meal. They were very busy with take out, yet took great care of us too. Highly reccomend!

14/05/2026: I'm a self confessed food snob, but every now and then, all you want is a bacon double cheeseburger and Soermacs rarely disappoints.

20/04/2026: The young lady who served me was friendly & efficient. The burger I ordered was so over cooked it was how I imagine chewing leather might be. The garlic cheese fries were cold & swimming in a white sauce totally void of any garlic flavour and there was just a sprinkle of cheese, so disappointing 😞

12/10/2025: I like the place,went for swimming but the water was cold

04/10/2025: I have been using Leisure centre for about 3 years, it is notoriously the worst gym in Portlaoise on account of the small space lacking some serious equipment and horrible changing room facilities. I still enjoyed it as the price correlated to the quality/size and was usually quite and had a lovely crowd. When renewing my membership after the remodel the price had sky rocketed only being a few euros cheaper then Midlands which has much better classes, changing rooms, spa discounts, etc. There is an obvious issue with maintaining staff especially in the last few months. Most of the staff inside the gym are lovely but the front desk staff always seem to have a horrible attitude and seem frustrated with the most basic questions. What has driven me to the point of a negative review is there has been a huge influx of children/very young teenagers using the gym. Younger people being there would not be an issue if they werent so disruptive, they are wrestling each other, half of them wearing school uniforms (jeans) leaving phones and other belongings over all the equipment that they’re not using so it cannot be used by other members. If say your using a bench in the dumbbell section theres 5 kids crowding around one on another and they are accidentally sitting on top of you and bumping into you with weights in hand making it impossible to work out. Not to mention the fact they’re constantly hitting, pushing, and pulling at each other around other people who are paying a high price to just clear their head after a long work day. The gym is much too expensive for what it is and to pay that much to not be able to workout because they have no regard for anyone else and staff instead of asking them to mellow down a little are fistbumping them, taking selfies with them and actively encouraging the behaviour. My partner asked the other day who was in charge and the woman who identified herself as so, I asked her this Thursday what time does the gym close at on Saturdays and she said half 5 yet this Saturday was kicked out at 5 because “they’re closed.” They keep repainting the place but no effort to maintain the changing rooms or maintain any sort of gym environment. If I had paid for the month I would simply change gyms but I paid for the year in May and have noticed such a drastic steady decline since then. Extremely disappointing.

11/09/2025: We had a cappuccino with oat milk and a café latte and both were excellent and the price was great!

09/09/2025: Can get busy inside especially on nice days but friendly staff and good 99s