The best restaurants in Cork

26/01/2026: Quiet pint and watched some horse racing waiting for wife to finish shopping. Bar staff were grand, chatty and gave some local food recommendations. Lost my bets on the gee gees. Dont tell the Mrs!

05/01/2026: stopped off for a few drinks whike waiting fof friends

19/09/2025: Beautiful place, great coffee and good music!

06/09/2025: Hipster café with a very nice atmosphere in Cork City center. When I went there it was really packed, but still very enjoyable given the good vibes and good music. Nice coffee too for 3'60€.

14/09/2025: lovely spot, needs a bit of cosy added, so many options in line of pastries and savoury food

07/09/2025: €8.95 for a coffee and a scone. Way too expensive. Coffee was nice scone was ok. Got a pastiche de nata also for nearly 4 quid... Really poor left it behind. Staff were really nice.

30/11/2025: Had a lovely impromptu dinner date here. Food was delicious and well priced. Small internal seating area and though tables are close together, we felt it was still private enough. Service brilliant and staff very friendly.

29/11/2025: We had a fantastic experience at this restaurant. The service was outstanding from the moment we arrived. We originally booked a table for four, but since we ended up being five, the staff went out of their way to arrange a larger table for us without any trouble. The food was excellent, the atmosphere was warm and welcoming, and the team was incredibly attentive and friendly. We truly appreciated their flexibility and kindness. Highly recommended!

23/04/2026: Utterly disgusting found hair on the food; that too pig hair, they can’t even cook it properly

19/04/2026: we wanted to have Chinese food, i found it on google. we came in. empty. no guests, it looked like in centeen. we ordered food. shredded chicken was hard and rice was tasteless, they kept watching to see if we ate it. they also gave us water which was in a dirty glass and from the tap. first and last time i was there.

10/06/2026: Amazing place for a workation, great sport facilities and restaurant food

09/06/2026: Absolutely stunning hotel can’t fault anything we had an amazing time

09/10/2025: No food...Plenty of character!!

28/09/2025: Cracking bar, worth calling in for a drink.

10/03/2026: Sports bar with a great beer collection.

16/01/2026: Top notch beer menu, nice atmosphere and excellent staff.

31/03/2026: Best place , Best Food , Best Hygiene , highly Recommended if you are Travelling to West cork Rosscarbery . All of the Above Friendly Welcome and hospitality by Chaudhry Waqas

31/03/2026: Love their food, and especially their staff ❤️

29/04/2026: Fairly steep prices for the quality of the food and the pints. Kopperberg 8.50 was a surprise. Pizzas were grand. I would highlight the pizzas tasted home made but I wouldn't recommend here if you're looking for a good bang for your buck.

12/04/2026: Great staff great pizza and great wine fab local for a catch up

06/06/2026: I've been a patron of this establishment for 24 years and it has never disappointed me by far one of the best restaurants in Ireland, with amazing atmosphere and amazing food 👌

26/05/2026: The food is just okay. Not bad, not great. The Nachos appetizer was okay and the Nachos tasted like generic, store bought Nacho chips. The spare ribs were also just okay. The Taco dinner was average and the fajitas were also very average. The service was friendly but slow and the atmosphere is small but nice.

24/10/2025: Friendly staff, delicious cake, great value, only criticism I could make would be the music is a touch loud?

19/10/2025: I know this place is called The Grumpy Baker but I didn’t realize that was referring to your experience. Absolutely never leave reviews but our experience was so ridiculous I had to say something. My friends and I stopped in for a quick bite to eat. Two of us had tea we had just grabbed from the market but the rest did not. We all ordered a ton of food and coffee. The place was only slightly busy and had plenty of tables open but they all had reserved signs on them. When we asked if we were staying, we mentioned the signs and were told that they only put reserved signs to literally deter people from sitting down because of how busy they get. Red flag number one. Secondly they charge you more for eating there as opposed to take away. Which is just weird. I don’t know if that’s common in Ireland but it certainly isn’t in the States. Red flag number two. When we told the girl we’d eat in, a different staff member mentioned we couldn’t stay with tea from somewhere else. Which we very easily agreed too and said that’s fine we’d take away. The blonde girl taking our order (which I’ve seen other reviews talking about how rude she was) then continued to bring it up after we calmly agreed to leave saying that it’s disrespectful to their business for us to have brought it in. Even after these comments, we completely understood and said it’s fine we’ll take away. We then proceeded to move over to wait for our food only to stand there watching at the very least 6 other people come and go with their food. Almost the entire place was cleared out and we still hadn’t received our order. At that point I was almost positive the blonde girl serving us was doing this on purpose because she walked past us several times and refused to look at us. It seemed that she was more interested in being on her phone and chatting to her coworkers than asking us why we were still waiting. After who only knows how long, a completely separate staff member who was incredibly kind asked us what we were missing. Once we told him our order, he got us out right away, which means that girl just didn’t get our order ready since we watched this employee put our order in the oven. It was so wild. All in all this was a horrible experience and the name of the business says it all. The food wasn’t bad but it definitely wasn’t good enough for us to ever deal with that again. For the rest of our trip, our group could not stop talking about how insane our experience there was. Will not recommend.

21/04/2026: They have an offer on their website that says any noodle or fried rice dish and a second one for 50% of the price. We called today and the offer was confirmed to be in place for collection only. So I head there instead of choosing delivery. Upon arrival only two dishes were ready and they said that the offer is only on Wednesday. Their website, and phone attendant , clearly said otherwise and they refused to prepare the other 2 dishes. We think that’s very bad customer service and organisation.

06/03/2026: THE MASSAMAN BEEF CURRY IS SO GOOD, TRULY THE BEST TAKEAWAY MEAL I HAVE EVER ORDERED. INCREDIBLE AND BIG PORTIONS

17/04/2026: There today..stil hungry coming out veg 1 carot 1green 1pea and tiny dollop of spuds

15/04/2026: Pleasant atmosphere, friendly service, elegant, quiet A very tasty breakfast Huge portion, standard prices I recommend