The best restaurants in Cork

02/12/2025: Visited Dinky Donuts last week and ordered a crepe with lemon and sugar. I wasn't greeted politely and the woman with the shaved head working there, she barely even looked at me. Then I watched her make the crepe without gloves?? And she had her finger at the top of the lemon juice bottle, which to me personally is pretty disgusting. Having all my food handled by someone without gloves honestly made me more sick than hungry, so I didn't even end up eating the crepe unfortunately. I think this is strange because a few weeks before a lovely staff member made time and effort to greet me and was wearing gloves whilst handling everyone's food despite how busy it was, and my order came out delicious. This time it just felt lazy and rushed, and also there was a very big lack of health and safety :/

08/11/2025: Maybe it is our fault for trying crêpes from a doughnut shop, but the crêpes had barely any toppings on them. We ordered lemon and sugar and there were so little toppings that it was like we were eating plain crêpes. I will say I have previously had the doughnuts and they are very generous with the toppings. Just wish that the crêpes were the same for €6.50.

27/07/2025: Microwed shrimps, old bread. Not recommended

21/06/2025: The sangria is good! We didn’t try any of the food just went for drinks and the vibes were good

22/02/2026: Best chicken burger! Great atmosphere and service

20/02/2026: Great variety of food, very good locals, very friendly staff, I recommend it 100 stars.

08/02/2026: Malaysian curry with egg fried rice was delicious! Honestly one of the top five curries I've had in my lifetime. So flavourful. Staff were super friendly

23/12/2025: Very disappointed with my take away order. Ordered two adults meals and a kids meal . 44 euro. The kids meal came with two ! small burned chicken goujons, doggy rice and a few shavings of veg for 8.80 euro. Other take ways in the area are a lot better value and tastier. Don't order here for a kids menu. Rang them to complain, they said the goujons were fresh!

20/12/2025: Absolutely disaster food.. regret why i ordered from here ..low standard food .. don’t understand english .. Ordered paneer tikka and they sent red sweet liquid curry .. bad taste

26/09/2025: Good food, pizza was good and so we're the curries

23/12/2025: A little haven in the heart of the city

21/12/2025: Extremely overpriced...5 euro for a regular oat milk latte. The coffee id fine if generic.....I've had stronger instant coffee. I also got a muffin and ig must have been a few days ikdbas it was a little stale.

02/01/2026: Lovely place for a group dinner/lunch or outings. The food was nice, music is a bit loud for my taste, but I know everyone is different. We had a lovely Christmas party there. Recommended.

04/12/2025: A very overpriced bar, the draught beer is exceedingly expensive and not great quality. It is hard to get a bad pint of stout these days, however the courtyard consistently manages to. Food is expensive and nothing special.

15/11/2025: We will definitely eat here again to try more of their dishes. Really tasty & reasonably priced. Portions are pretty spot on too. Server was lovely and helpful as we’d not been there before.

10/11/2025: Delicious food, good price, friendly stuff😊

26/01/2026: I have to say, I am very disappointed before I got food from There and was good about the Year ago tonight I collected food from there and I swear to God dog food taste better than that burger disgusting had Bite gave the rest to my dog. My dog didn’t finish it beef people stay away from it wasting money and time.

20/01/2026: It was a horrible experience over all the staff are rude and me and my friends were very disappointed as we normally love their food but the service was horrible they were dead quiet so they can’t even use the excuse of being busy and stressed but when I ordered my food me and a friend of mine asked for the food to be plain but when we received the food it was not plain and we simply just asked to get it plain as that’s what we asked for then the server rudely replied with saying we never asked for it plain then when we were receiving the food we were met with dirty looks and it was continuious through out our meal with having the staff members obviously give out to eachother about us even tho we asked for everything politely. I am very disappointed about this as I usually am quite fond of the food.

09/11/2025: Great value and the best vegan chicken satay!

23/10/2025: No hate but why did our 4 in 1 look like this. Chicken was bad too I almost choked it was like play dough

11/02/2026: Service speed was good, especially considering how busy the place was, but the prices nothing short of extortion for mediocre food and tiny portions

09/02/2026: Always go here when visiting, best cup of tea

17/09/2025: Called in at 7.30am for a coffee. The staff are so friendly even though it was so early.. the coffee was great 👍

21/07/2025: Nice Starbucks, but there is a smell of stale milk when you come in. Staff can be a little distracted and not notice you’re there and a bit slow. The toilets could do with a clean also.

27/07/2025: Excellent. One of the hotel mistakes of the trip.

24/07/2025: I recently stayed at this hotel, and I have to say, the staff was a major letdown. From the moment I walked in, I felt like I was bothering them. The front desk staff (Martha) seemed uninterested and gave off the vibe that they'd rather be anywhere else. Throughout my stay, I encountered similar attitudes from other staff members. Requests were met with delays, and it felt like pulling teeth to get any kind of assistance. It's a shame because the hotel itself had potential, but the poor service really dragged down the whole experience. I won't be returning, and I'd advise others to consider other options where the staff actually cares about their guests. We had tried to complain to the manager Joe about the attitude of his staff, he told us “customers like you are not worth being customers”.