The best restaurants in Cork city council

21/07/2026: Great coffee and delicious food. Place is very cosy. Staff members are very kind and friendly. Open early, which is is not so obvious for coffee/food places. Parking available. I and I can highly recommend Amberley Dolce & Salato

21/07/2026: Very good breakfast and good service

11/06/2026: I enjoy this Starbucks a lot. It’s busy but not usually overcrowded. Although if you want to work on your laptop for a couple of hours it can be hard to get a table as it’s very popular for that. Lots of space. Great staff. Car parking available. Close to retail parks and shopping center.

12/04/2026: Great view. Nothing else …awful coffee for what’s suppose to be a prominent coffee house!

21/07/2026: Car wash wasn't working when my husband went early in the day but went back in the evening and the boy turned it back on. Just want to say thank you

08/07/2026: First time here,sat in the garden, really enjoyed it. Staff were good.

17/04/2026: Great pub. Got free pizza one day and pool table kept in decent nick. Always a good vibe 👍

25/08/2026: Came in here before heading back into town, had a lovely pint of Beamish and sat and watched the news with all the old boys in the pub. Friendly atmosphere, excellent beer.

09/06/2026: Great Drink on Tap, great atmosphere, great service and it has a great juke box. It's a local pub in the city, it has character and characters.

16/11/2025: The nicest spice box I have ever had very timely delivery's and very affordable for what you get. I'd say there the best Chinese in cork

28/09/2025: The Imperial Hotel is a classic Irish hotel with plenty of charm. My room was comfortable and fairly spacious, and I especially liked the bathroom interiors; they had a nice touch of elegance (wish I’d remembered to get a video of them!). 🛁 That said, my room was located in the basement, with a view directly into other rooms, which wasn’t the most inviting. At €220 per night (without breakfast), the value felt a little off for what was offered. The big plus here is the central location, it’s right in the heart of Cork, making it really easy to explore the city. Overall, a decent stay if location is your top priority, though there are a few trade-offs. Ratings: 🛏️ Room Comfort & Design: 3.5/5 🛎 Service & Ambience: 4/5 💸 Money’s Worth: 3/5

22/09/2025: Posh historic hotel in the centre of Cork, with a great restaurant, Helena's. Staff were friendly and knowledgeable.

01/07/2026: Staff were unfriendly and lacked good customer service.manager delivered my food to my table just left tray on table with no interaction. Very grumpy and unfriendly. There was no napkins salt or ketchup with my food I had to go and ask. Tables were filthy not wiped down from previous customers I had to eat my food from the tray.i ordered snack box. Coke had more ice than coke. Chicken breast was extremely dry like left to long in heater.i wouldn't return .

24/06/2026: It's disgusting, unsanitary, the place is dirty, the tables are sticky, they don't let you use the restroom. How long is this even acceptable? Close this place and let normal businesses thrive. Horrible place!

13/08/2026: Middle-sized bookshop with stationery (very little) and newspapers (quite a lot of Irish and British titles, the largest choice in town). Wide range of books about politics and history of Ireland, but barely anything in literary critic or linguistics.

12/03/2026: Good coffee and really cool building

15/02/2026: Love this cafe , very spacious and a good queuing system, great variety of cakes and sandwiches. Staff are friendly and helpful. Has ample seating outdoor s. Situated right in the heart of ballincollig shopping centre entrance.

23/08/2026: Poor quality coffee shop compared to the other establishments in this shopping centre. Be great if it closed down to make room for the other thriving local businesses who are competing against them

02/06/2026: Love their ice coffee frappe Staff very friendly

03/08/2026: Love this shop and so enjoyable to see a lot of Filipino products and asian foods. Prices are okay. Highly recommended!

27/07/2026: Bought quite a few items here the other day, later to discover that multiple items have past the best before date.

28/08/2026: Great coffee in Cork with a cool vibe and friendly staff.

22/08/2026: Other day I’ve got a great capuccino from the brazilian guy with mustache, he’s really nice and polite.

02/07/2026: Good selection of beers and live music

26/06/2026: It's a very nice pub, featuring historic artifacts. The staff is very friendly, and the interior has a classic pub atmosphere. There's a semi-covered outdoor area, which is very comfortable; during the week, it can be a quiet, intimate space for long conversations over a good beer. On weekends, there's almost always live music, with guys singing and playing guitar, and everything takes on a country vibe. Recommended!