Miyazaki Japanese Takeaway
A tiny Japanese counter on Evergreen Street that most Cork visitors walk past, where chef Takashi Miyazaki serves salmon zuke donburi to a handful of seats.
The places in Cork the guidebooks miss. locals-only counters, after-hours rooms and the spots tourists walk past.
Off the beaten plate
12 places
The Hi-B Bar
- ★ 4.3
- Traditional pub, Murphy's stout
- €
- City Centre
The O'Donnell family's pub since 1924, with a no-mobile-phones policy that ensures it never appears in anyone's Instagram feed. Cork's most authentic pub.
MacCurtain Wine Cellar
Cork's most important wine venue, rated number one by Star Wine List for two consecutive years. The grower Champagne list and pet-nat selection have no.
Hidden gems: tours, tastings and classes in Cork
Boru Coffee Shop
The most ambient specialty coffee in Cork, built in an 80-year-old Clyde Shipping building on the Brian Boru Bridge. SOMA beans, guest grinder rotating.
Meades Winebar
- ★ 4.2
- Wine bar, Tapas
- €€
- City Centre
Cork's longest-running wine bar in a candlelit room at 126 Oliver Plunkett Street. €5-6 glasses of European wine at pub pricing, simple tapas, retro.
The Alternative Bread Company
- ★ 4.3
- Sourdough, Gluten-Free, Syrian flatbread
- €
- English Market Quarter
Sheila Fitzpatrick's 1997 bread counter claims the largest handmade bread range in Ireland. Syrian flatbread alongside organic sourdough and certified.
L'Atitude 51
Cork's most celebrated natural wine destination - a cave-a-manger with a 400-bottle organic list and the most expert natural wine staff in Munster.
O'Reilly's Tripe and Drisheen
- ★ 4.4
- Cork food heritage, Offal, Traditional Irish
- €
- English Market Quarter
The only producer of tripe and drisheen left in Ireland, an English Market stall since the early 1900s; drisheen is Cork's peppery, crumbly blood pudding.
Alchemy Coffee and Books
The corner of Barrack Street and Evergreen Street holds two of Cork's most-loved off-the-track rooms - Alchemy on one corner, Miyazaki on the other.
Cafe Moly Roastery
- ★ 4.4
- Korean specialty coffee, Micro-roaster
- €€
- Union Quay and Ballintemple
A Korean specialty cafe, microroastery and barista academy brought to Cork by Daniel and Sunmi in 2020. The in-house roasting on a small-batch machine.
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Stonewell Cider
- ★ 4.4
- Irish craft cider, Supreme Champion
- €€
- West Cork
Ireland's Supreme Champion cider, produced by Daniel and Geraldine Emerson from Cork apples since 2010. A wine-standard craft cider found on Cork menus.
The Mutton Lane Inn
- ★ 4.4
- Traditional pub, Hidden lane
- €
- City Centre
Cork's most photogenic traditional pub, reached down a laneway off Patrick Street that the English Market guidebooks barely mention. The dark, fire-warmed.
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