The best restaurants in Cork

17/01/2026: I’ve been a regular at The Cottage Little Island for some time, but my recent pizza takeaway truly impressed me it’s convenient and easy to locate Their pizza—especially the “Cottage Special” with pepperoni, chicken, doner meat, ham, sweetcorn, mushrooms, and peppers—is always cooked to perfection 🍕. It delivers on both flavor and portion size, making regular orders feel consistently satisfying The Cottage consistently offers a wide, appealing menu—encompassing kebabs, burgers, garlic bread, and more—at great value. The ordering process is smooth, whether online or in person, and their staff are friendly and efficient What stands out: • Fantastic, reliably tasty pizza and a varied menu • Excellent service—fast, friendly, and professional • Great value, with meal deals and deals like “2 × 12″ pizzas + sides” I highly recommend The Cottage for anyone craving a delicious, no-fuss pizza takeaway in Little Island. Whether it’s a quick dinner or a weekend treat, it never disappoints.

10/01/2026: Hadn't visited the cottage for a while but our last two visits have been great. Last time we were there we got the spice bag and a pizza. The chicken in the spice bag was lovely not hard crispy dried up chicken like most spice bags ive had! Was happy we asked for the sauce on the side as it could have taken from the spice bag itself! The pizzas are really good too! Not greasy or soggy like some pizzas you'd get in typical pizza joints. Would recommend!

07/12/2025: Superb. Ambience, festive decor. Amazing team. Warmest welcomes with smiles. Beautiful setting. Incredible menu, food choice & cocktails. Family birthday celebration for my husband with his sisters down from Dublin. Busy spot always. Booking advised. All round venue for scones & Tea, breakfast, luncheon and evening meals. Classy venue.

07/11/2025: Table quiz on Wednesday. Super fun.

15/10/2025: Do not go here for breakfast. Can't vouch for the evenings here or the pints. The breakfast was shocking, unfortunately one of the few places open on Sunday morning. Do yourself a favour & go Tara's instead. Everything was under or over cooked, asked for some tomatoes instead of mushrooms. They brought me a cold sliced bit of tomato. Service poor, didn't clear our table. Pumping the diddly at 10:30am, come on. The worst cup of tea I've ever been served in Ireland

13/10/2025: Staff were excellent. Bacon and cabbage was top notch. Never waiting for a pint. Beamish was exceptional. Bravo

07/12/2025: Had a coffee this morning, coffee was good but service......not a hello, thank you or goodbye, so sad 😢

27/10/2025: I was in Cork for one day and found this spot on reddit. It was the best iced coffee I've had in Ireland in six months. Very good!

21/04/2026: Good staff. Fast service. Accurate order

31/03/2026: Had a bulk order with Dominoz Black Pool. Binny, Sujan and Jacob helped to arrange and manage seamlessly. Also the pizza were enjoyable! Good work to the Team!

22/12/2025: What was not to love! Great choice of lunch items, hot and cold. Great personable staff. Comfortable and laidback vibe. Parking outside the door. Might move to 5 ⭐ on my next visit when I've had the chance to sample more than a tasty, toasted sandwich and checked out the toilet facilities. Dec '25 back again. Enjoyed a seasonal ciabatta. Lovely staff again. Toilet facilities ok, not great in terms of cleanliness but it may have been just before a mid service clean to give them the benefit of the doubt.

17/12/2025: One great place badly needed in the area. The staff are extremely helpful and pleasant.. they do delicious sandwiches and homemade cakes. They sell their coffee by the bags. It’s got a nice atmosphere and they do great coffees .

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

05/04/2026: Arrived 12 minutes before the closing time at this location, the front doors were locked and all staff refused to let us enter via the restaurant doors or via the drive through and pulled the drive through doors closed. Absolutely shocking for this company.

26/03/2026: Typical McDonald's, but service is very slow, particularly at the drive-in. The food isn't always hot, and I visit there ywo to three Times a week

08/07/2025: Over for the Celtic/Cork City bar and it's way too far out making a bit of a trek. Ok.

08/07/2025: Great place to go for a drink friendly owners and staff plenty of space there

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.

31/10/2025: Great value ..lovely chips and pies also spicey chips and veg .

23/09/2025: Great food great prices . Good service.

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😊