What a good local spot to stop and eat after your Blarney Castle visit. Located just outside the…read moreentrance of the castle you're sure to find something to eat inside. It can can pretty busy so keep that mind and it's definitely not quiet either. The servers and employees are so nice and eager to help. The food was great I ordered the eggs Benedict and my wife got the scrambled eggs with bacon both were excellent. My flat white and wife's coffee were as good as they get. Can't miss here folks.

Delicious leg of lamb!…read more I guess some of you forgot I am still on this thing. The portions are generous and the food is amazing. It was so good that I could not take a picture of it. You just have to eat there to see it. So good! Everything is fresh as well.

My sister and I came here and we absolutely loved it. Everybody is so friendly service and food is…read morelovely. It's like walking into a hallmark movie. You can just walk across the street to the Castle

The person at our B&B recommended this place, and we ended up dining here two nights in a row. She…read moresaid she used to work there and knew the chef. Walking in, the first room on the left is a pub; walk a couple of steps further and you will find a restaurant. We ordered from the daily specials. The first night, we got a steak salad and the fish dish (forgot the name), and the second night, we did the seafood pie and green curry. We licked those plates clean!

This is just a lovely restaurant to go and be around wonderful fun loving Irish and everyone else…read more(like tourists) but to also enjoy the good food, lively, happy and fun loving banter and catch a live music show (usually on a weekend and other occasions.) The service is johnny on the spot and the bartenders are welcoming with humorous slogans and stories. There's plenty of room inside the front of the restaurant as well as all along the sides and the back. The further back you go the less you want to know of the front. It's kind of cozy and sweet. So, come on out the next time you're in Blarney, County Cork. It's a lovely town, and inside is so colorful with songs, stories, decor and all sorts of delicious foods and libations. It couldn't be any more friendly here. So, come over and enjoy yourself but don't mind yourself...not here. Chris McGrath was the entertainment and with a lovely voice and an inviting soul. Mel

Had the seafood chowder and it was very good. Was not very busy but I was on a schedule and they…read morehad me out on time. Not very loud so easy to talk while eating.

No time for a long review, just wanted to mention that Christy's Pub served up the best beef Irish…read morestew I've had so far in Ireland, and I've had a lot of beef stew! Chicken club sandwich was okay, easily outshined by the stew. Get the beef!

The seating was super comfortable and came with a lot of conifigurations to accommodate group…read moresizes. The service was excellent. They set clear expectations of how long it would take for the food to be prepared. Thy remained very tolerant when the table next to us made Americans look bad. The fries were super crispy and the plate came with a good amount of them. Both sandwiches had great flavor, the right amount of ingredients, and well toasted bread.

Lovely restaurant around the corner off the Main Street. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, the…read moredecor is wonderful. Service is polite and friendly. The food is absolutely delicious. I had the chicken curry, he the burger. We shared a bowl of potato bacon soup as well. All prepared perfectly. The proportions are very generous, too much so for me. That seems to be consistent across all of Ireland. This restaurant was a true find.

Wow! Way too expensive for what you get and the service you receive. Don't get me wrong, the food…read moreis okay and the restaurant is beautiful. However, it's not worth the money. My family of four paid €50 for four mediocre sandwiches, two drinks, and four bag of chips. Lovely place but hard on the wallet.

Great environment and service, but the food is average and quite expensive. We tried two of the…read morequiches, salads, sandwich, soup and a pastry. The only notable items were the salads despite the excellent food presentation. Overall, this place feels like it's catering to American tourists with psuedo-French food and it rubbed me the wrong way all around.

Yum, ~€25-30 per entree. Fresh quality ingredients with fast and friendly service…read more THE FOOD: - sea bream €28, YAY: fresh, tasty and served with tasty super crispy tempura veggies and peas - bread and butter, good: multigrain and white, both with a thin crust, but dense interior. Served with tasty Irish butter - chips €3.5, yum: crispy, tasty - potatoes €3.5, ok: nothing special here - broccoli appetizer, ok: TLDR: for a more upscale dinner, good, fresh food.

I think there must be two Les Gourmandises: the restaurant we encountered, and the one it can be…read more Wait staff is professional. I found the surroundings a little less nice than one might expect for what was supposed to be one of the best restaurants in Cork, according to our hotel. It's essentially a prix fixe dinner, with multiple variations. Appetizers were excellent. A crab salad was delicious, as was the gravlax. The prawns in phillo -- which I thought were going to turn out to be some tired en croute dish -- were instead more like spring rolls, and they were outstanding. We had some time to contemplate the first course. In fact, a lot of time. In fact, an unreasonable amount of time. In fact, we had to speak the waitress -- twice -- about the passing of time. And when the second course came, it was a disappointment. A lamb dish was stringy; it reminded me of pot roast. My own roast pork belly -- typically a juicy cut -- was dry (no wonder they included sauce on the side). A dish of pasta and chicken was tasty, but it was pasta and chicken. I think there's a very good restaurant in here somewhere. But we didn't get their "A" game, regrettably. Much as I want to give it more stars -- and it certainly deserves 3.5, had the system allowed -- I think 3 stars is right, given the prices they are charging.