Seafood€€City Centre
A family business with its own fishing boats, Quinlan's brings a tide-to-table honesty to its Princes Street seafood bar with daily-changing catch.
Signature: Fish and chips, Fresh oysters, Smoked salmon platter
Japanese bistro€€City Centre
Takashi Miyazaki remade his former Michelin-starred kaiseki room as an approachable Japanese bistro and natural wine bar on Sheares Street in 2024.
Signature: Handmade teuchi soba, Donburi rice bowls, Natural wine pours
Gourmet burgers€MacCurtain Street (Victorian Quarter)
Cork's most awarded burger counter, running Aberdeen Angus beef freshly minced daily through a classic smash-style format on MacCurtain Street.
Signature: Classic smash burger, Monthly special, Hand-cut fries
Traditional Irish€English Market Quarter
Perched above the English Market on its own gallery, the Farmgate Cafe serves Cork's most traditional dishes with produce bought from the stalls directly.
Signature: Tripe and drisheen, Seasonal market plate, Soda bread with Kerry butter
Smokehouse and craft beer€€City Centre
Sibling to Market Lane next door, Elbow Lane pairs an in-house nano-brewery with a smokehouse kitchen on Oliver Plunkett Street. The German Purity Law beers.
Signature: Slow smoked baby back ribs, Wood-grilled ribeye, Elbow Lane house beers
Irish seafood€€English Market Quarter
Two-floor tavern at the Market Lane entrance to the English Market, tracing its lineage to 1792 and revived in 2017 with menus built from market produce.
Signature: Oysters on the half shell, English Market seafood board, Stout and chowder