Great place for drinks!!! We popped in here not realizing it was cinco de mayo and they told us…read morethey had tacos as a special for the night. I knew better being American and loving actual tacos but I ordered them anyway. They were not bad but clearly not what I'd get back home in the states. All of the food was decent but not mind blowing. Others at my table had a burger, pizza and pasta. The staff was wonderful and the beer selection was great. They had beers I've never heard of so it was nice to try some different options. The atmosphere was pretty cool. They had bar stools on bicycle wheels with pedals and the lights were corsets. The water came in a bottle that said, "unfiltered unicorn tears." So overall it was a very cool place. I definitely recommend it if you want a drink and maybe a bite to eat if you aren't terribly picky about your food.

Ugh. Update your website!…read more I found Brick Lane on Yelp and when I looked up the menu on their website saw they had an unlimited wings deal on Wednesday and pub quiz at 8:30. Awesome! When we showed up and asked for the wing deal they said it's no longer offered. The 8:30 pub quiz didn't actually start until 9:52. Other than that it was a fun time. We got a few pints of Guinness and a pizza and had fun playing the quiz. The bartenders were friendly and prompt. Just get your website right so there aren't unmet expectations.

Wanting a healthier lunch we got just one order of fish & chips this time and one of beet salad and…read moresplit them between the two of us. Both were excellent. The fish was hake. This was easily the best of the four fish&chips we've tried so far in Ireland. Outstanding actually. The batter had the most perfect crunchy texture, wasn't too thick, and it adhered well. The fish was just-off-the-boat fresh, flaky and cooked just right. The portion was enormous - two fillets, one large and one medium, with a relatively small portion of good fries. The tartar sauce was tangy with tiny chopped pickles. Vinegar was available at the table. This was served with a small salad of lettuces, spinach, scallions, and onions. Price was surprisingly low given the portion, right around average for fish&chips in our experience so far. We ordered the entree salad with the locally made goat cheese add-on for a small extra charge. More excellent leafy greens, beets in small cubes, pomegranate seeds, picked onions, candied nuts and plenty of chèvre in large pieces. It was pre-dressed with vinaigrette and drizzled with balsamic vinegar. Very good, a far better choice for us than two orders of fried fish. Also on the menu were 3 other kinds of fish (monkfish, black sole, and plaice), each prepared differently. Shrimp scampi, seafood au gratin, and steamed mussels rounded out the seafood section. Oysters are on the menu but they weren't available that day. Other than seafood there were also burgers (beef and veggie), chicken wings, soup of the day, chowder, a steak, lasagna, pan roasted duck breast, cannelloni, liver paté, spring roll, and more. So a very extensive menu here, and not just the same things found everywhere. Sadly we didn't have room to try their desserts, which included sticky toffee pudding, banoffi pie, flourless chocolate cake, and meringue pie with raspberries and ice cream. They were hard to pass up.

food: 4.5/10 ambiance: 7/10…read moreservice:6/10 overall 6/10 honestly the most bland fish and chips I have had- it wasnt flavorful and just mid. I think you can find better elsewhere In this little town. the oysters was good yet we had better in Galway which felt fresher. basic service- had to wait some time to order and to get served

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.

My niece did her due diligence when selecting this place. It gets busy so we made sure that we…read moremade reservations. It's a beautiful restaurant and everything we tried was amazing. It began to fill up rather quickly for dinner. In the States we are used to being rushed out the door. Here starters and entrees are spaced out to allow you to sit and socialize.

There is a particular kind of disappointment reserved for a restaurant you expected to enjoy…read more The SpitJack was one of those. On paper, the proposition is difficult to quarrel with: Irish ingredients, rotisserie cooking, an attractive room, and a menu written with sufficient enthusiasm to make a hungry man begin making irresponsible decisions before the waiter has even arrived. Unfortunately, menus are promises. Dinner is where the promises are collected. And ours came due rather poorly. The food was disappointing, not catastrophically bad, which would at least have made for a more interesting story, but simply nowhere near what we expected from a restaurant built so confidently around its cooking. There is a great difference between a meal being technically edible and a meal making you pleased that you ordered it. Ours spent considerably more time in the first category. The greater disappointment, however, was the service. A restaurant can survive an imperfect plate remarkably well when the people looking after you are attentive, engaged, and interested in making the evening work. Human beings are wonderfully forgiving creatures when somebody appears to care. The reverse is also true. When the food disappoints and the service seems equally uninterested in rescuing the occasion, dinner begins to acquire the atmosphere of a contractual obligation. You eat because you have ordered. You wait because apparently that is now your occupation. And eventually you pay because international law still frowns upon simply wandering away. That was roughly the trajectory of our evening. What makes it particularly unfortunate is that The SpitJack has all the ingredients of a restaurant I should have liked. The concept is appealing. The setting works. The menu creates expectations. There is clearly an idea behind the place. But an idea does not cook dinner, and a concept cannot look after a table. Execution must eventually enter the proceedings. Ours apparently had the evening off. This was not an angry experience so much as a disappointing one. I have eaten terrible meals that became wonderful stories. This was not terrible enough to become folklore. It was merely expensive in the currency that matters most when travelling: an evening. Perhaps we caught them on the wrong night. Every restaurant is entitled to one, and the overwhelmingly positive reputation of the place suggests plenty of diners have had a very different experience. We can only review the evening we were actually served. And ours was two stars. One for the promising concept. The other for reminding me that expectations, like soufflés and political careers, are surprisingly easy things to collapse. Would I return? Possibly, but only because Mark Twain understood an important principle of life: "sometimes a man deserves a second chance." Dinner, however, should not require a third.

Ok. Where do we start?! This place was effing delicious. After a long day, we wanted good food and…read morehad little expectations. Son of the Bun is modern and lively, the place was full when we arrived around 8pm. Our servers were all so nice and we loved their shirts that all had puns like, "Girls just want to have Bun", "Bun DMC", "Bun in a million". We ordered a the chicken and waffle burger, and the bbq onion rings burger. Both were absolutely amazing, mouth-watering good. We ordered the skinny fries on the side and asked for the chipotle mayo. Their local beer was Franciscan Red and I ordered a Pimm's (which is like a strawberry/orange sangria), both also delicious. The decor was also new and modern, and we really liked their music and energy overall. Unfortunately, we did not save room for dessert and hope to make it back someday. For more recommendations and tips from our Ireland trip... Follow @vanmblin

This was better than expected for a fancy burger place, but definitely worth a visit. The food was…read moregreat as was the service. They have a burger of the month/quarter which varies and could be fun to try. We also had a side chef/cobb salad which provided some small bit of health to our meal. They have a few craft beer selections but not extensive and sadly doesn't appear they change them.

Good family lunch stop…read more We arrived at 2pm and were seated w/ a party of 6 immediately. They accommodated my son's request for 2 beef patties on plate. 4.0 - Fries (crispy) 4.0 - Sweet potato fries 2.5 - Beef Burgers (ok - kind of bland plus a funky meatloaf taste) 4.0 - Iced Cafe Latte Clean bathroom (with strangely small sinks ). Service was attentive and accommodating.

Standards have fallen post pandemic-- although service exceptional. No longer have crab cakes eggs…read morebenedict. The mushroom sides not as flavourful & the bananas not cooked until caramelised. But lovely staff. Bristling atmosphere and lots of food options. The sourdough bread is a bit heavy with all the breakfast options. Spinach side a bit too salty.

We were glad to find The Castle open after a day of exploring and ending up at Blackrock. We only…read morestopped in for a drink, but the menu looked great and would have been a nice spot for dinner. The location is pretty far from Cork center, which makes it hard to reach without a car, but Uber does serve that area with a bit of a wait. We were there around 5PM, so the dining room was pretty empty and we had to wait a little while for the check as the staff was organising everything for the start of dinner service.

The Food, starting with that, is amazing and spectacular for the starters I had the Cauliflower…read moreBravas, spot on nicely baked or fried I am not sure how they cooked it, but it was amazing! The Roasted chicken was also a spectacular dish with the veggies on the side. My waiter was Ava and she was very blinded with my cousins birthday, Victoria where everything was handled very nicely and we had a great time. Lastly the dessert is the Vanilla bread with butter pudding very nice and smooth to finish it off,my favorite out of all dishes I had here! The ambiance was just in general amazing to have, modern style pls e to have also a look of the Blackwood Castle, recommend this place e fro sure if you want a view of the Lee River and epic food here too!

This is one of two restaurants, one in Limerick and this one in Cork. They are both fabulous, this…read moreone won this year's best restaurant, based on a local magazine, I'm not sure if it's the best, but it's pretty good. I come here for the steak and fries, comfort food. If you don't know, Irish beef is phenomenal, no growth hormones nor antibiotics. Very natural. It's actually against the law here, how civilized.

Really great place for a filet mignon. Most places don't have Bernaise in Cork as well but from…read morewhat I remember they were able to make it for me.