The best restaurants in Mallow

11/08/2026: Great pints of Guinness and friendly people. A great pub.

10/07/2026: The rooms are fine and location is very good. The food used to be a lot better here. Definitely not passing 4.5% discount on to customers since 1 July. The quality of the beef in the burgers has dropped a lot. So much that we stopped eating here and go to Cork to eat out instead most of the time. If the quality of food got better I would go back here again as the hotel bar is good. Don't bother with tje carvery though unless you want to be transported back to school dinners.

22/04/2026: Always a great pint of Murphys in the Hi-B and Kepplers.food is bang on and a priced fairly.Good spot for the weekend pint.

20/08/2026: Just had the best bbq spare ribs and fillet beef in pepper sauce sat down with the wife and staff are amazing and friendly food will be hard to beat in cork

14/08/2026: The food is lovely every single time we order.

24/09/2026: Great food, very good service, delicious.

17/08/2026: Food is terrible..it always hit or miss ...the kebab is disgusting..because I believe they use cheap meat..if it's even meat..certainly is not lamb..the burgers are tasteless.. and the chips are always under cooked..

23/09/2026: The food was very tasty and customisable to personal spice or food preferences. The service was good and fast. Very nice restaurant!

26/08/2026: Horrible food. No flavour. Didn't taste like katsu curry at all.

17/07/2026: Extremely disappointed we were working in town had two pints in two different pubs walked in there for one more pint before home and they refused myself and my friend, and I would say purely on the basis of looks. had money to spend in a dying town by the looks of it and no wonder why. Fuming about how we were treated. (And we weren't in work clothes!)

06/04/2026: Food is always lovely and reasonably priced, Definitely the nicest Chinese in town

05/03/2026: I had not here in 20, good restaurant. Good size portions

04/09/2026: How about ye actually stay open for once, ye close at random times. Maybe change the time your open until on google so people don't waste their time driving to get food to a place that closes when they feel

31/08/2026: Excellent food and service. Me and my partner go back with pleasure on every occasion we have.

17/09/2026: the food is nice and free utensils, thank u!

07/09/2026: There food is amazing, the chicken black bean is absolutely unreal!!

13/03/2026: Great food, amazing value, friendly service. Absolutely recommend.

06/04/2026: Ron and the rest of the team at mallow Costa were absolutely great. Quality fast service even under pressure. Very kind and curtious

08/09/2026: I never had so good experience in McDonald's with customer service. Kim was very attentive during the short service time.

12/08/2026: The food really isn't the problem here in my experience. The young lad on the drive through needs to start speaking up. When asking him the options for desert menu you can barely hear what he's saying, it's always one big muddled, muffly sentence. This is on the third occasion we've noticed this.

21/07/2026: Absolutely fantastic food. Proper New Yorker packed with beef and pastrami. Takeaway for €5.95 is best value one could ask for (and the great taste as a bonus!)

16/07/2026: Breakfast was poor quality & tasteless. Mediocre coffee.

18/09/2026: The Indian delivery man in the black car pulled down the handle on my door to the house , luckily it was locked

28/08/2026: 1 star Unfortunately, my experience here was very poor. The food was genuinely disappointing — poor quality, badly prepared and not something I would order again. The service wasn’t much better. What concerned me most, however, was what I personally witnessed regarding hygiene. I saw staff handling phones and money and then continuing with food preparation without washing their hands. I also didn’t see gloves being used when handling food. On one occasion, I witnessed an older member of staff, wearing a Mr. Kebab T-shirt, picking at his toes while out the back. When I challenged him about it, he told me he was on his break. Regardless of whether someone is on a break, basic hygiene standards should be maintained in an area where food is being prepared. I’ve also noticed the back door being left open, with the alleyway immediately behind the premises looking far from clean. From outside, you can see into the back area, and frankly, it doesn’t give a good impression of cleanliness or food safety. I also found it uncomfortable when staff were speaking to each other in their own language in front of customers. I appreciate that staff can speak whatever language they like, but when you’re serving customers, I think it’s important to communicate professionally and make customers feel comfortable. Overall, the combination of poor food, disappointing service and the hygiene issues I personally witnessed means I won’t be returning. I’d strongly encourage management to take a serious look at their food preparation practices, staff hygiene and the cleanliness of the premises.

14/08/2026: Took 1hr 30 mins for food to come. Had to ask everytime needed water, forks etc. food was nice but not worth the wait. Unless you’ve the patience of a saint, don’t bother.

13/08/2026: The worst experience I have ever had in a restaurant... Beer was warm, returned it and they said I still have to pay... Sorted that out, then food came. Hair in the rice. I was out the door after that. Shocking standards guys. I waited 45 mins for the food in an empty restaurant. AVOID