18 splurge places in Cork, editor-picked. tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Cork. All Cork food.
Paradiso ★ 4.8
16 Lancaster Quay, Cork, T12 AR24
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.
Goldie ★ 4.6
128 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork, T12 X5P8
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.
Farmgate Cafe ★ 4.5
English Market Quarter · English Market, Princes Street, Cork
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.
The Glass Curtain ★ 4.4
Thompson House, MacCurtain Street, Cork
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.
Ichigo Ichie Bistro and Natural Wine ★ 4.4
City Centre · 5 Sheares Street, Cork, T12 RY7Y
Takashi Miyazaki's more relaxed reinvention of his former Michelin-starred kaiseki room: handmade teuchi soba, donburi rice bowls and small sharing plates.
Orchids at Hayfield Manor ★ 4.4
Hayfield Manor Hotel, Perrott Avenue, College Road, Cork, T12 HT97
Hayfield Manor's signature dining room is Cork city's most formal fine-dining option, with corniced ceilings overlooking the manor's private gardens.
Greenes Restaurant ★ 4.3
48 MacCurtain Street, Cork, T23 AE52
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.
Cask ★ 4.3
48 MacCurtain Street, Cork
Cork's premier cocktail bar on MacCurtain Street with sixteen drinks made with local foragers and small plates. Four national cocktail awards in succession.
Jacobs on the Mall ★ 4.1
30A South Mall, 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.
Elbow Lane Brew and Smokehouse ★ 4.1
City Centre · 4 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork, T12 YH24
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.
Nash 19 ★ 4.1
19 Princes Street, Cork
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.
Quinlan's Seafood Bar ★ 4.0
City Centre · 24 Patrick Street, Cork
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.
Cornstore ★ 3.9
Cornmarket Street, Cork
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.
The MET at The Metropole Hotel ★ 3.8
MacCurtain Street, Cork, T23 R24P
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.
The River Club ★ 3.8
Parliament Bridge, Cork
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.
Isaac's Restaurant ★ 3.8
48 MacCurtain Street, Cork
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.
Bocelli Italian Kitchen and Wine Bar ★ 3.7
City Centre · Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork
An Oliver Plunkett Street Italian running house-made pasta and a daily changing board of Italian-inspired mains, with a sommelier available to navigate.
Liberty Grill ★ 3.7
32 Washington Street, Cork
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.