The best restaurants in Cork

17/09/2025: Pat and the gang are doing a fantastic job food and service and courteous staff second to none

30/08/2025: Great place. Been here many times. The staff are always so kind. Great Full Irish Breakfast. Great place to have a pint. Overlooks the lough.

10/10/2025: The pizza was not horrible. It's more of a pub with food. Then a place to go for dinner. Not many food options, but the prices were great, staff was really nice. I would go back again for a pint.

18/09/2025: The man who runs the speed quiz on Thursday nights has the ability to smell around corners. Gazelle instinctively run at the sight of him. In addition to running quizzes, he delivers babies in the back of Taxi cabs, finds homes for wayward iguanas, and discovered the color violet. Overall, five stars

28/01/2025: Disfrutamos de la cocina francesa - influenciada en este restaurante. El filete de filete y la caña de cordero estaban sabrosos. El pescado y las patatas fritas, lento - carne de res y hongos de ajo estaban deliciosos

29/10/2025: I usually go to this place after doctors.

02/10/2025: Came here on a busy day when they were really understaffed. The staff were so lovely and patient with everyone even though they were clearly stressed. Very impressed

16/11/2025: Absolutely fantastically cooked food and very friendly staff. I highly recommend you take a trip here.

10/11/2025: Lovely pub great grub and great staff

30/09/2025: Creamy pints midweek. Great atmosphere, and service.

12/08/2025: Staff are chill and the outdoor area is nice without being pretentious

31/10/2025: Brilliant Italian cooking,I Had the breakfast yummy and good Italian coffee. Our waitress was brilliant, she had traveled to Capetown and Durban, where I am from ,a coastal town north of Durban past Umhlanhga rocks, called Umdloti. Good vibe in whole shop. Worth a visit. I be back. 💯

21/10/2025: I enjoyed a light French-style lunch. The recommended wine paired well with the food. The staff were friendly and explained everything clearly.

26/11/2025: Door was open , couldnt get new card and there's no any staff ?? To help us

22/11/2025: The facilities are fine, but the customer service let the experience down. I arrived in person and bought tickets for my friends arriving shortly after. When one person didn’t arrive, I requested a refund for the unused ticket right away, but the manager refused and insisted on unwanted arcade credit. This policy may be fair for online bookings, but it feels unreasonable in person. Returning money given in error should be basic human decency.

15/09/2025: Nice local/neighborhood pub with friendly service.

27/11/2025: I am really disappointed with our most recent visit. This used to be one of our favourite places to catch up, but the experience this time was poor from start to finish. Even though we had a reservation and arrived early, we still waited about past our booking time to be seated. Partway through our meal we were asked to move our table backwards so a band could set up behind us, even though they did not start playing until right before we left. The music in the restaurant was already very loud, and the setup happening directly behind us made it extremely difficult to have a normal conversation. Service was slow all evening. There were long delays between dishes, and it was difficult to get anyone’s attention even to order drinks. My mixed meat fajitas cost 24 euro and were disappointing. The chicken portion was very disappointing size wise, and the steak was undercooked. I was not asked how I wanted it cooked, and the staff seemed far too busy to address it. What made this even more frustrating is that I emailed the restaurant privately on the 21st to share this feedback and never received a reply. After several great visits in the past, this experience and the complete lack of acknowledgement makes me very hesitant to return

24/11/2025: Disappointing experience. I made a table reservation, yet we still had to wait at the bar for a while before they seated us. Looking at other reviews it seems to be standard practice there to make guests wait. When I arrived, there was no one I could speak to about the reservation—waitresses just walked past me while looking at me, and I had no idea how things were supposed to work. Are you supposed to wait to be seated or choose a table yourself? I had also emailed them beforehand with a question and never received a reply. That day, they were missing a lot of ingredients. They were promoting drinks for 12 euros, but when you try to order them, they say they don’t have the ingredients. In that case, they should just remove the posters from the tables and the bar. I ended up ordering my fourth-choice drink because of lack of ingredients. When we were eating, we asked for extra sauce because the meat was dry. We chose the verde sauce, which the waitress recommended, but she later came back to say they were out of that as well. Do not order the beef—it was not good. I had to chew it endlessly just to swallow it, and in the end, I had to spit some of it out. Overall, the service is not very friendly. There is a strange attitude; they don’t seem very communicative, they look at you with no reaction whatsoever, no smile. But they asked several times if I was finished with my food while passing by, even though i did not look for eye contact at that time, they seem with no consideration. Give people some time—if I’m ready, I’ll move my plate away myself.

28/09/2025: I love this pub, place very clean and the staff very good !

31/08/2025: Cozy pub with plenty of seating for our group, nice bartender

10/08/2025: Good place to go for a few drinks

28/05/2025: This pub is one of those pubs that you go to for the first time and you're sure to like it. It's frequented by locals from this area and the surroundings, and also when students are celebrating during those student weeks. This pub is really cool and you laugh from beginning to end. I had the privilege of being there and just hanging out with the locals. It was very good, fun and very friendly. I really enjoyed it, in fact I loved it, and I recommend it to anyone in the area to go there.

11/11/2025: Generous food portions and great service! We visited on a rainy day, so we ended up sitting indoors, but the atmosphere was still lovely. Would love to come back and try the terrace seating next time; it looks like the perfect spot to enjoy a nice meal with a view.

26/10/2025: I found myself visiting family in County Cork, out by Midleton. On a lazy Sunday morning, I decided to take a drive out to Cork city and grab brunch at a place I had read about. Salt is a great little neighbourhood spot. Small but well formed, the place can’t help but be welcoming. I was served by Lizzie, who made me feel as if this was my umpteenth visit. I ordered a flat white, orange juice, and the Huevos Ranchero… and boy, what a breakfast that was! Truly filling, warming, and set me up for a day out to Blarney and beyond. Salt is a great spot in Cork.

02/10/2025: I had breakfast here today. The full breakfast is very good and the bread really nice and good value. Staff member stood behind me when asking for my order which was a bit odd as I didn’t know if she was speaking to me. Toilets very clean.

21/05/2025: Really nice cafe-restaurant. I had the hash and chorizo. Very reasonable price and very tasty and filling. The place is busy and popular.