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.
Jacobs on the Mall is a fine-dining restaurant in Cork.
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.
Address: 30A South Mall, Cork
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.
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.
Takashi Miyazaki's more relaxed reinvention of his former Michelin-starred kaiseki room: handmade teuchi soba, donburi rice bowls and small sharing plates.
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.
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.
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.