I love this place!!! I had to sneak in women and Hillbilly's chicken into the Grand Parade Hotel…read moreback in the day. Cork has changed (More crime and money) but Hillbilly's chicken has not. They will serve you if you are drunk and passed out on the ground! They will serve you if you have a crazy woman on your back. They will serve you if you are so drunk you cannot see. We need one of these in the USA but it w0ould get messed up by franchise owners.

Hillbilly's is the perfect food after a night out. I cannot describe the joy I felt while eating…read moretheir hot, crispy chicken and fries after a red eye flight. The snack box is my favorite. Their milkshake machine doesn't always work, but the staff is friendly and efficient so I don't mind.

What's with the hype? Maybe the price of it? I ordered the vegetarian pitta and it was so greasy!…read more1/4 of the half pita was filled with greasy vegetables and the rest was chips with cheese. I can see why people get full of this. But the price is low because it's for half a pita! Great food for drinking but not something you must try.

This place is my favourite take away spot in the country. It usually has queues forming out the…read moredoor with good reason. People come for the creole but every thing on the menu is the berries. The curry sauce is the right consistency, just the right amount of thickness. Kansas city bbq, flying fish pittas, chimmichangas and Transilvânian burger are all worth a sample. It's a tight enough spot for room but there is plenty of interesting bits and bobs on the wall to keep you entertained and the music they play is always decent too. You wont hear ke$ha played in there. Top tip:kcs website has a dash cam so you can check the queues before you decide to head in.

100% best chipper in Cork. Best tasting batter and quality ingredients. Centrally located for us,…read morebut we would still come here all the time even if we had to drive far to get there! Excellent service and genuinely pray they never change the look of the inside. The line gate inside is part of my personal sentimental memories now and I really need it to never change. And please never change the recipes! Especially the potato pie, my truest love.

What a great place! We arrived just as they opened at noon on Friday, ordered the Haddock meal,…read morethen had a fun conversation with the guy who was frying up our lunch. He even gave us some free samples of other things on the menu to try since it was our first time - deep fried shrimp, the house curry... and the mashed potato balls were amazing! I love the fact that they tell you where the potatoes come from too. Great food, and great service. My only complaint is that you can't sit at a table and enjoy your fish'n'chips with a pint of beer, but I guess that's just how "take away" restaurants work. We still had a fantastic experience standing and eating at the little counter by the window. You must eat here!

It's not much to look at, but this takeaway place is so special! If you've never had fish and chips…read morebefore, this should be your introduction. There's so much history posted up on the walls, from newspaper clippings to photos of the owner and his family to a golden record gifted from U2 to Lennox himself!

A long time favourite of ours and very much a Cork institution…read more Probably a must visit if you are in Cork for the first time.

Staff and service= 100% Not only meat lovers are welcomed…read morehere: also the vegetarians have a great chance of enjoying a very delicious burger and choosing from at least 3 different kind of vegetarian options. I had the special (see black board) which was a chickpea and carrot burger with Tzatziki and: fries! Loved them, loved every single bite of my burger. The most outstanding service I have experienced in Ireland, the staff was friendly, quick, helpful, just awesome! Very well trained I must say! I seems like that they always get quite busy, so if you really want to eat here you better reserve a table. Otherwise they´ll try everything to squeeze you in.

As a tourist abroad from NY this place is a gem & if I ever come back to Cork this will be the…read morefirst place I visit. Gourmet Burger Bistro not only has amazing curb appeal the food is also great. I went with the Chilli Burger (which has a 100% organic beef burger w/ jalapeño salsa and sweet chili mayo - I added monetary jack cheese also, the burgers come garnished with the flag of the country they are named after... but the "Chilli Burger" on the menu I think is a play on words for Chile (example of other burgers: Irish, Greek, American, etc.). The burger had a little kick with the jalapeño salsa but was tamed down with the sweet chili mayo for a perfect balance. The service was quick and polite, unlike many places in Dublin that i've visited & the food is reasonably priced. As soon as I was seated I was greeted by a server and brought ice water... thank the heavens, I was so thirsty and find myself always having to ask for water instead of it being brought as a curtesy with my meal. The place is very clean and waiting time on your burgers is quick. They had daily specials with both the burgers and dessert & have alcoholic beverages too. Vegetarians are also welcome, they have many veggie burger and salad options.

Mother of God. So,…read moregrowing up in Knocknaheeny, the "Churchfield Chipper" as it's locally known, was a childhood institution. We'd look forward to the days mum or dad would announce they were in the mood for a fish supper, the pots and pans stayed quiet, and I was sent forth to bring home the grub. 20 years since moving to America, I brought my heavily pregnant Californian wife to my home patch. She asked what I wanted to do, and a visit to the chipper was top of the list, and there was only one place I wanted to go. Quality? The word doesn't come close. I hear people wax poetic about Lennox's. Or Dino's. Golden Fry. Or this Douglas-ified KCs with their gourmet nonsense. Eejits, the lot of them. Gobshites and langers who don't know what they speak of, I say. These are quite possibly the best chips in Cork. Therefore the best in Ireland, and by extension, the best on earth. Yep. In centuries to come, when aliens visit the planet, those in the know will get their fix from here. And it's quantity. Such quantity. Order a pie, you get two. Order a sausage, you get two. Order the fish, I dare you. I double dare you. 'cause yeah, you're getting two. Two pieces of fish big enough to go surfing on. My wife bit into it, moaned slightly, and proclaimed it the best fish and chips she ever had. "Waaah, but it's in the northside! I don't wanna go up there!" Ah, stop now and come off de stage. The soundest people, and this place has some of the best service. My wife ended up inviting our cab driver to stay with us in California, for god's sake. So stop reading this, grab the wife, throw the kids in the Focus, and head over for a feast.

I've been going to this chipper for years and i have to say without a doubt it is the best chipper…read morein cork. Tasty snacks is as good as it gets. The Top food are there chips. They are so nice especially with cury. Next the batterd sausages are lovely And the chicken Burger to top it all off. I Defintly recommended Tasty snacks if you are in cork.

This was a weird experience. We went around 12:30pm on a Monday and the restaurant wasn't very busy…read morebut the host sat us right next to a table in the window that was already full. I didn't think anything of it but the waitress seemed surprised we'd been stuffed in there and moved us herself. The food was just okay. I ordered the half chicken with peri peri but it seemed to lack flavour.

Great food. Both of my friends and I really really enjoyed our food. One tried the vegan burger and…read moresaid it was very nice. We enjoyed the ambiance, kind of like a millennial burger place (ifykyk) but super cool and had fun choices on the menu. Service was less than par but I blame that on our server particularly who when realized he was supposed to be serving outside (he had the front two sections of the place) lied and blamed his mistake on "female server" instead of taking responsibility. I'll be back either way, it was hilarious because we didn't really care lol.

Avoid this restaurant like the plague. My partner and I came here for some quick food and while it…read morewas initially good, we ended up getting food poison from the taco fries. It's totally upended the rest of our trip. Some people might ask how do you know it was this restaurant? Well, we only ate here that night, the symptoms happened 3 hours after our dinner, and based on the excavation it was very clear that it came from the taco fries.

If you love KFC, don't go to this fast food chicken restaurant. This specific location on the…read morefamous Mc Curtain Street looks terrible out and inside, old, used, done! It is more or less clean, but that's it. The staff... These guys are quick and very help and friendly, food will be brought to the table. They made the 3 stars. The food... hot, greasy, tasty, no salt, so Irish. The staff knew it already and brought a lot of napkins. You know exactly what you get, when you enter the shop, the first impression is correct.

We passed by this restaurant on the way to the Cork Gaol and I felt tempted to try out how a…read moreMexican restaurant in Ireland compares with the ones in New Jersey. Without much to expect, honestly. But it turned out that this contemporary joint provided one of the best flavorful food we tried in Cork! The fact that they donated meals gives it a nudge among the rest (the slogan Let's Beat World Hunger in neon light greeted you as you order your food and you eat while staring at a giant counter showing how many meals they've donated so far). Just like many other new restaurants in the US and on this planet, this restaurant provides a select-your-own fill of your burritos/quesadillas/((fill in the blanks)). The dining room shares its space with an ice cream/fondue counter on the other side of the room. Service is standard (it's a fast food joint afterall), but friendly. The classic food we ordered, such as the soft tacos and hearty rice salad bowl turned out to be very well made. Fresh, not too dry, flavorful, and while it's not a match to more authentic Mexican home-cooking (it's never meant to be), it's still a feast of flavors worthy of mention. A fresh and cheap fast-food alternative when you're in Cork.