The best restaurants in Cork

27/12/2025: Went on a Saturday night. Buzzing pub with live music. We didn’t have reservation. Talked with the servers and asked if we could get a table for two. Lucky that they got us a table. We both ordered Irish Lamb Stew and enjoyed it. It had mash and Irish bread with it. Highly recommended

23/12/2025: Nice bar, cozy setting. Reasonable prices, noisy later in the evening.

31/12/2025: Amazing food and always great service my partner and I love this restaurant it's our favourite place in Cork.

16/11/2025: Like the menu and big portions. Cheesecake is the best.

02/01/2026: Got takeaway , flavours were amazing in the korma , chicken was just abit over cooked and the pilau rice was a little undercooked but overall decent

30/12/2025: Cracking chicken Biryani, couldn't recommend it more

19/12/2025: Just had a delicious toasted chicken sandwich and coffee at Food Capers. The chicken was fresh and not the horrible package stuff many places do now. Service was efficient and friendly. Will deffo be back!

23/11/2025: Really good Vegetable Soup. Homemade and hearty

09/12/2025: Excellent place to eat and/or hang out, food is all good, Burgers, Chicken wings, Roast of the day. Can't fault the place.

21/11/2025: Great spot for food and drinks. Family owned. Staff are top notch across the board.

15/12/2025: Delicious confections and a comfortable seating area.

28/11/2025: Delicious! A huge amount of deliciousness, taste, and cleanliness.

29/10/2025: Great breakfast. Food is well prepared. Staff are very attentive and polite. Couldn’t ask for more. It’s why I go back!!

23/10/2025: Had such a great experience here today. Went in with my friend and we didn’t have much time & the waiter was THE BEST. We were only waiting 5 mins for a table and he served us immediately and got our coffee and food for us SUPER quick. He told us he was “determined that we make our lecture”. Great service! We meant to ask his name but we forgot! Great staff 👏

21/10/2025: Live music and great atmosphere.

14/10/2025: Great pint of Beamish and good service

04/01/2026: I have not been there for about 7 years since I moved to Dublin went there today with family. And must say very sad that food quality is none and food come cold very cold. Prices are Double then before quality worst ever.

18/12/2025: Delicious sushi, very friendly staff, I will be back soon

10/01/2026: Characteristic and well-kept place, excellent service and an excellent selection of alcoholic beverages

10/01/2026: I liked it, a cozy place for these cold nights!

10/11/2025: Really enjoyed our meal! Lady serving us was excellent - Pleasant, efficient & attentive to detail. Drinks came promptly. All good - Keep it up!!! Cheers, John

09/11/2025: Lovely lunch here recently.food is done to perfection and so fresh . Very reasonable prices. Staff super friendly.

14/11/2025: Comfy place nice coffee and treats.

28/10/2025: Very busy coffee shop, great comfy seating and friendly staff. Highly recommended.

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.

07/01/2026: Bad service, they're shoveling food in front of you not even clearing the table of the previous course. Food is good (avoid arancini/rice balls they're dry and overcooked) and okay priced. Despite booking a table they put you in a random place not caring at all about the booking (Ie: twi peopl in a table of 4, then move you again in front of the return empty dishes place always there

06/01/2026: The food was amazing. Fresh and feel good after it.

12/11/2025: Super friendly service, Plenty of menu options, and the food was pretty dang good.

05/10/2025: Update: came from USA. So good, came back 2nd night in a row. Masterpiece