Paradiso ★ 4.8
Denis Cotter's vegetarian flagship on Lancaster Quay since 1993, with a six-course market-and-farm tasting menu and one of Ireland's best organic wine lists.
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Tasting menus, Michelin stars, and the kitchens redefining what fine dining means in Cork.
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The Glass Curtain ★ 4.4
Chef Brian Murray's Michelin Guide listed room inside the former Thompson's Bakery on MacCurtain Street, with a short menu of prime Irish produce cooked.
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Goldie ★ 4.6
Michelin Bib Gourmand seafood bistro with a daily-changing menu based entirely on the West Cork day-boat catch. The fin-to-gill approach produces dishes like.
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Jacobs on the Mall ★ 4.1
The most dramatic dining room in Cork, inside the vaulted former Turkish baths on South Mall. A 130-seat restaurant with a private room, serving broadly.
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Greenes Restaurant ★ 4.3
A converted 18th-century warehouse on MacCurtain Street with a waterfall backdrop and a kitchen that brings English Market sourcing to a more formal setting.
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Elbow Lane Brew and Smokehouse ★ 4.1
The smokehouse side of Cork's Market Lane restaurant group brings slow-cooked fire cooking to a dinner format: ribs, brisket and wood-grilled cuts paired.
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Ichigo Ichie Bistro and Natural Wine ★ 4.4
Takashi Miyazaki's more relaxed reinvention of his former Michelin-starred kaiseki room: handmade teuchi soba, donburi rice bowls and small sharing plates.
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The MET at The Metropole Hotel ★ 3.8
The Metropole Hotel's restaurant on MacCurtain Street with polished contemporary Irish cooking and a Munster-produce brief. The cocktail bar is Cork's best.
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Cornstore ★ 3.9
A converted Victorian corn market housing one of Cork's most reliably-executed steak and seafood rooms. The baked crab mornay and dry-aged Irish beef cuts.
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The River Club ★ 3.8
A split-level grill room overlooking the Lee at Parliament Bridge, with a Robata charcoal grill and a riverside terrace that becomes the city's most wanted.
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Farmgate Cafe ★ 4.5
Cork's most important lunch counter above the English Market, serving the city's native dishes with produce bought from the stalls below each morning.
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Bocelli Italian Kitchen and Wine Bar ★ 3.7
An Oliver Plunkett Street Italian running house-made pasta and a daily changing board of Italian-inspired mains, with a sommelier available to navigate.
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Isaac's Restaurant ★ 3.8
A MacCurtain Street fixture in a Victorian warehouse setting, with a seasonal Irish menu that has sustained a loyal Cork clientele for over two decades.
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Cask ★ 4.3
Cork's premier cocktail bar on MacCurtain Street with sixteen drinks made with local foragers and small plates. Four national cocktail awards in succession.
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Nash 19 ★ 4.1
The day-dining anchor of the English Market quarter on Princes Street, with a breakfast and lunch menu built around Kerry butter scones, freshly baked breads.
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Orchids at Hayfield Manor ★ 4.4
Hayfield Manor's signature dining room is Cork city's most formal fine-dining option, with corniced ceilings overlooking the manor's private gardens.
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Liberty Grill ★ 3.7
A long-running Cork city grill on Washington Street, open for breakfast through dinner with a focus on Irish beef and market fish in a relaxed, all-day.
Book2 to 3 days ahead
Quinlan's Seafood Bar ★ 4.0
A Cork seafood bar backed by the Quinlan family's own fishing fleet in Kerry, offering a tide-to-table menu of fresh oysters, fish and chips, smoked salmon.
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Cork: Fab Food Tasting Trail
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Cork: Midleton Distillery Behind the Scenes Tour & Tasting
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Editor picks in Cork include Paradiso, The Glass Curtain, Goldie, plus the full fine dining chapter on TableJourney.