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Moving Home To Cork-Friendly Advice Please

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  • 17-01-2007 9:14pm
    #1
    conrad c
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    Hi all,

    Emigrated as a kid, and now back in Cork after 20 years. Here's the basic life info i need to survive (all help will be greatly appreciated, grovel, grovel, grovel):-

    1) Best pints of porter (funny how that's the first question)
    2) Best hangover breakfast (natural progression)
    3) Best veggie restaurant
    4) Best non-veggie restaraunt
    5) Best barber
    6) Best indie/alternative record shops
    7) Best clothes shops - I'm 30. I don't dress like I'm 20 or 40.
    8) Best alternative cinema


    Thanks in advance, people (more grovelling...)


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    rymus
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    1) Murphys, but it varies wildly from superb to diabolical in many pubs.
    2) I'm partial to Tony's on north main street. Adam & Eve's on Oliver Plunkett Street isnt bad.
    3) Cafe Paradiso
    4) Loads and loads. I've been going to Waggamamma's alot.
    5) no experience with them, but I hear theres a crowd in the English market that are quite good.

    Welcome back


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    conrad c
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    rymus wrote:
    1) Murphys, but it varies wildly from superb to diabolical in many pubs.

    Welcome back

    Thanks Rymus,

    Should've worded question 1 better - I meant which pubs had the best porter. I'll have to get used to Murphy's again. You couldn't touch the stuff abroad!


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    rymus
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    ahh I dunno, I had a drinkable pint of it once in a pub near Malibu beach :D


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    Heisenberg.
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    craichoe
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    The Scientist wrote:
    Failte romhat ar ais!

    1) Best pints of porter: Old Oak and Tom Barry's for stout
    2) Best hangover breakfast: Tony's Bistro North main st.
    3) Best veggie restaurant: Im a carnivore i'm afraid.
    4) Best non-veggie restaraunt: Amicus is my fave on paul st.
    5) Best barber: Barbeiri's on Mcurtain st. so ive heard...
    6) Best indie/alternative record shops: Plugd on washington st.
    7) Best clothes shops: for a 30 yr old eh, dunno J&J maybe, quills, GQ,
    8) Best alternative cinema: theres only 2 in the city, The gate and Kino(alternative)

    No way ! The old is a dump with geriatric ladies prowling around for young little bais .. and by young i mean 25 - 30


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    craichoe
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    The Scientist wrote:
    Failte romhat ar ais!

    1) Best pints of porter: Old Oak and Tom Barry's for stout
    2) Best hangover breakfast: Tony's Bistro North main st.
    3) Best veggie restaurant: Im a carnivore i'm afraid.
    4) Best non-veggie restaraunt: Amicus is my fave on paul st.
    5) Best barber: Barbeiri's on Mcurtain st. so ive heard...
    6) Best indie/alternative record shops: Plugd on washington st.
    7) Best clothes shops: for a 30 yr old eh, dunno J&J maybe, quills, GQ,
    8) Best alternative cinema: theres only 2 in the city, The gate and Kino(alternative)

    No way ! The old oak is a dump with geriatric ladies prowling around for young little bais .. and by young i mean 25 - 30


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    conrad c
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    Thanks a mill, folks. All good stuff.


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    StandnDeliver
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    1) Best pints of porter:le cheile and tom barrys
    2) Best hangover breakfast: Tony's Bistro North main st
    3) Best veggie restaurant: Quay Co-op Cafe
    4) Best non-veggie restaraunt:
    5) Best barber: no idea im a lady
    6) Best indie/alternative record shops: Plugd on washington st.
    7) Best clothes shops: for a 30 yr old eh: store on french church strret,tubes puaul st, McCarthys on he coal quay,Indigo washington street
    8) Best alternative cinema: Kino besides that have a game of scrabble... :D


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    Judes
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    Check out thread a few below this from AUTUMN DAYS, re. Cork Social Network Group! Great for the "newbies" and "returnees" to the City! J


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    conrad c
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    Just a note to say thanks again. Moved a couple of weeks ago and I'm well impressed with Plugd, Tony's, and Tubes. Had a bad experience in Barbieri's though (hate changing barbers). I'm working on the rest.

    Go raibh míle.


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    Blitzkrieger
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    Tall skinny Turkish dude? He's godawful......


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    conrad c
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    Blitzkrieger wrote:
    Tall skinny Turkish dude? He's godawful......
    Nah, a not-very-tall, not-very-skinny woman!

    If I had a name of one of the good ones in there, I'd ring and make an appointment the next time. This one ambushed me at the door. I knew I was in crap when she started cutting my hair without even asking me what I wanted. I started to tell her but I knew she wasn't listening, she laughed manically, her eyes rolled backwards in her head, she clicked the scissors in front of my eyes, screaching 'you're mine, now, miiiiiiiiiiine'. The trauma may've played tricks with my memory, but that's how I remember it, I swear


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