The restaurants below have been grouped into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over €65)
$$$ (€50 to 65)
$$ (€35 to €50)
$ (up to €35)
These prices are for a three-course meal for one with half a bottle of wine or equivalent.
The Ivory Tower The Ivory Tower is run by Seamus O’Connell, one of Ireland’s most original and famous chefs. With experience from Mexico as well as Japan, he has described his cooking as ‘trans-ethnic fusion’. Emphasis is given to high-quality local and organic ingredients
and to harmonious complexity in flavors and textures. The result is consistently delicious and exciting.
The Exchange Buildings, 35 Princes Street
Tel: (021) 427 4665.
Price: $$$$
Café Paradiso This is the best vegetarian restaurant in Cork (and possibly in Ireland). On offer is award-winning and highly original vegetarian fusion food based on local and seasonal ingredients. Critics and other guests have been singing the restaurant’s praises for many years, and with good reason. Vegetarian cuisine doesn’t get much better than this.
16 Lancaster Quay
Tel: (021) 427 7939.
Website:
www.cafeparadiso.ie Price: $$$
Jacob’s on the Mall Jacob’s is a modern, 130-seat restaurant in Cork’s financial district. Located in the city’s old Turkish baths, it has an unusual, intriguing atmosphere. The cuisine is modern European, and the food is characterized by imaginative cooking and the blending of fresh, local and organic ingredients.
30A South Mall
Tel: (021) 425 1530.
Website:
www.jacobsonthemall.com Price: $$$
Prime at Clancy’s Clancy’s is a popular bar and restaurant establishment in the city center. The restaurant is called
Prime, and specializes in steaks. Poultry, fish and vegetarian dishes are also on the menu, but steaks are undoubtedly Prime’s forte.
15-16 Princes Street
Tel: (021) 427 6097.
Website:
www.clancys-bar.com Price: $$
Café Bar Deli Friendly and unpretentious, the
Café Bar Deli is a lively place offering generous portions of tasty, quality Mediterranean food made from fresh ingredients. Prices are reasonable both for food and drinks.
Academy Street
Tel: (021) 485 1865.
Website:
www.cafebardeli.ie Price: $
Nightlife:Cork has a varied and buzzing nightlife with bars, clubs and live music venues to satisfy all preferences.
Bodega, 46 Cornmarket Street, is in a large, open-plan converted warehouse and is considered by many to be Cork’s best bar.
The Long Valley Bar, 10 Winthrop Street, is a classic Irish bar and pub, while
The Franciscan Well, 14B North Mall, is the only bar in the city selling its own brews.
Pronounced ‘shin ay’, meaning ‘that’s it’,
Sin É, 8 Coburg Street, is among the best places in town for traditional Irish music.
Rhino Rooms, 1 Castle Street, is a tiny, but ultra-trendy bar with a ‘gay-friendly’ club space upstairs.
The
Newport Bar, Paul Street Plaza, is a trendy bar and restaurant with its own nightclub,
Vibes (website:
www.vibesnightclub.com), which covers three floors and has three bars.
Redz, 17 Liberty Street (website:
www.redzcork.com), is a popular club on two floors open until 0300, featuring local and international DJs.
City Limits, Coburg Street (website:
www.thecomedyclub.ie), is a combined comedy/nightclub.
An Spailpin Fanac (The Wandering Laborer), 28 South Main Street (tel: (021) 277 949), offers traditional Irish live music most nights.
Cyprus Avenue, Caroline Street (tel: (021) 427 6165; website:
www.cyprusavenue.ie), is an excellent and popular live music venue that puts on a wide range of acts.
The Half Moon Theater, Emmett Place (tel: (021) 427 0022; website:
www.halfmoontheater.ie), located to the rear of the main Cork Opera House, is another good live-music venue.
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