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Best chipper / fast food in Cork

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    #242
    Henry94
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Henry94


    KC's Fish Wife and Lennoxs in that order

    If I could have fish or a burger from the Fish Wife with chips from Lennoxes and the mushroom from KCs I'd be a happy camper.


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    #243
    Loire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭Loire


    It has to be Lennox's for me. KCs in Douglas does all the fancy stuff (King Creole's) where Lennox just sticks to the basics..


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    #244
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Herb Powell wrote: »
    :confused::confused:

    WTF do you want from a chipper??? They do all the standards

    Ray ?

    Smoked Cod?


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    #245
    theglobe
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭theglobe


    fyi, got food from the new China Town place on barracks street tonight thought it was really good. Good quality big portions.


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    #246
    Blue Magic
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Blue Magic


    AJ's in Riverstick is savage lads.

    Know it's not in Cork City but it's savage


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    #247
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Blue Magic wrote: »
    AJ's in Riverstick is savage lads.

    Know it's not in Cork City but it's savage

    Not too far outside though. Might take a spin down there some night if I have nothing better to do. Anything I should be looking out for ?


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    #248
    Blue Magic
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Blue Magic


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Not too far outside though. Might take a spin down there some night if I have nothing better to do. Anything I should be looking out for ?

    The snack box or the 1/4 pounder meal. Grand spot. Seats and all there


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    #249
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    theglobe wrote: »
    fyi, got food from the new China Town place on barracks street tonight thought it was really good. Good quality big portions.

    I tried it also but to be honest I found it the food nicer when it was Eva house, I doubt I'll be returning there unless I'm stuck some night :pac:

    I was talking to the girl who was working there and she said there were new chefs but she was not sure where the old chefs went to. One positive for me is it looks so much nicer inside, nice and clean with a lot less clutter.

    The girl working there was really upbeat and friendly which made the experience all the more pleasant.


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    #250
    hedgehog21
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭hedgehog21


    Zicos, no contest.


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    #251
    Lemmy Scott
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Lemmy Scott


    hedgehog21 wrote: »
    Zicos, no contest.
    Does your old man own it or something?
    Last time I saw a queue in there was 1985.


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    #252
    hedgehog21
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭hedgehog21


    Lemmy Scott wrote: »
    Does your old man own it or something?
    Last time I saw a queue in there was 1985.

    Sadly not, it I was on the right side of the city I'd never eat anything else:eek:


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    #253
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    In the battle of volume of chips, who would win ?

    Tasty Snacks of Churchfield or Barties in Ballyphehane.

    I've heard that if you're a local, you'll get about a 3x portion of a normal chipper in Tasty Snacks.


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    #254
    gimmick
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    One bag of chips from tasty snacks would do 3 people easily. They are nice as well. The big let down from here though is the battered sausages they do. They are awful.

    The Burger Hut in Knocknaheeny has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years as well.


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    #255
    hedgehog21
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭hedgehog21


    gimmick wrote: »
    One bag of chips from tasty snacks would do 3 people easily. They are nice as well. The big let down from here though is the battered sausages they do. They are awful.

    The Burger Hut in Knocknaheeny has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years as well.
    They are rank, though corcorans in farranree before it closed was lovely, though once I got raw chips :(


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    #256
    theglobe
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭theglobe


    hedgehog21 wrote: »
    Sadly not, it I was on the right side of the city I'd never eat anything else:eek:

    Zicos is absolutely vile. It is actually one of the worst chippers I've been to in all my days.


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    #257
    hedgehog21
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭hedgehog21


    theglobe wrote: »
    Zicos is absolutely vile. It is actually one of the worst chippers I've been to in all my days.

    Each to their own


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    #258
    kcb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭kcb


    Kold wrote: »
    Here's the thing about calling KC's a chipper....


    Their chips are sh1t.

    I wouldn't go near the place... bags full of grease is what you get

    I don't understand why people blow on about it so much... it must be a Douglas thing... similar to Eco's in fact... people buy into the hype


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    #259
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    gimmick wrote: »
    The Burger Hut in Knocknaheeny has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years as well.

    Big +1 to this, combined with the apache buffalo wings, drool :D


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    #260
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    kcb wrote: »
    I wouldn't go near the place... bags full of grease is what you get

    I don't understand why people blow on about it so much... it must be a Douglas thing... similar to Eco's in fact... people buy into the hype

    There are a few things the locals do in KC's that newbs don't know about. First of all, I completely agree, the chips are not great at all. Skip them. The pita's and the burgers are where the good stuff is hiding out.

    On avoiding grease, ask for the pita to be toasted, not fried. Takes a little bit longer, but it makes the world of difference. The hook for some people is that everything can be customised in there. You get the mexican pita with garlic mayo instead of ordinary mayo, the fajita burger with extra jalepenos... etc. You get the idea. You might have noticed people nearly reading out an essay ordering, that's what is going on there.

    I personally don't there there is a better burger in cork. Proper ciabatta buns, proper butcher's burgers. Cooked well. Nice choice of things to go on them. Yum.


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    #261
    murphym7
    Registered Users Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    pwurple wrote: »
    There are a few things the locals do in KC's that newbs don't know about. First of all, I completely agree, the chips are not great at all. Skip them. The pita's and the burgers are where the good stuff is hiding out.

    On avoiding grease, ask for the pita to be toasted, not fried. Takes a little bit longer, but it makes the world of difference. The hook for some people is that everything can be customised in there. You get the mexican pita with garlic mayo instead of ordinary mayo, the fajita burger with extra jalepenos... etc. You get the idea. You might have noticed people nearly reading out an essay ordering, that's what is going on there.

    I personally don't there there is a better burger in cork. Proper ciabatta buns, proper butcher's burgers. Cooked well. Nice choice of things to go on them. Yum.

    Agree with all of the above, I go there for the Burgers and Pitta's only - chips are poor, but dipping them in their garlic mayo, which is unreal, makes them a little better. Try the Chicken nuggets there too by the way, they are real and very very good.

    On Zico's - I don't mind the place. Its not at the top of my list by any stretch, but it is not the worst I have ever been to. Bit harsh to say that it is vile. But as was also said, each to their own.


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    #262
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    pwurple wrote: »
    There are a few things the locals do in KC's that newbs don't know about. First of all, I completely agree, the chips are not great at all. Skip them. The pita's and the burgers are where the good stuff is hiding out.

    On avoiding grease, ask for the pita to be toasted, not fried. Takes a little bit longer, but it makes the world of difference. The hook for some people is that everything can be customised in there. You get the mexican pita with garlic mayo instead of ordinary mayo, the fajita burger with extra jalepenos... etc. You get the idea. You might have noticed people nearly reading out an essay ordering, that's what is going on there.

    I personally don't think there is a better burger in cork. Proper ciabatta buns, proper butcher's burgers. Cooked well. Nice choice of things to go on them. Yum.
    Everything you said is true bar bold. Have you had the Fish Wife's burgers? It tastes so much like meat.. and you can see the herbs in it when you bite through it...
    Double Bacon Cheeseburger across the sky, what does it meeeeean? Oh. My. God.


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    #263
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    I haven't had a fish wife burger... Will do!


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    #264
    Boots234
    Registered Users Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Boots234


    Just had a Kansas city pitta from KC's.....savage!


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    #265
    theglobe
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭theglobe


    Well I ordered Zicos on Justeat and it was just awful. Chips were under done and stale. Pretty manky burger too. I've had it a few times too after booze and thought it was grand. I'm just not sure why it's in the list of best chippers. Youd do well to find 5 worse than it imo.

    I would consider Barties for instance, absolute streets ahead of it.


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    #266
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Sher they have the Dino's in Douglas there, they must've put in a couple of joke entries for the laugh.


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    #267
    Seandonnacha
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Seandonnacha


    All these chippers in the city are only rated because of the foot fall, there's a far greater concentration of lazy housewives up in the city than in any of the towns outside of it. Daniels chips in Bandon craps all over lennoxs mushy wannabe chips, it's purely the fact that lennoxs are camped within a student hotspot that they command those votes. Outside of the city environs, chippers have to try!!!!! The slop you get in lennoxs and dino's is lard soaked morsels of actual food. I must say though, kc's is a step on from a chipper, almost a up market deli/takeaway diner, can't see how it can be classes as a chipper.


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    #268
    Milly33
    Registered Users Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭Milly33


    Bit bummed we were trying to think of a good place for fish and chips and tried out the fish wife for the first time on Sunday and well I wasn't too impressed. Didn't think the staff were very friendly and well I wouldn't be rushing back for anything. Chips weren't cooked properly and for the price of the suppers I defo wont be going back for second chances


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    #269
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Seandonnacha wrote: »
    All these chippers in the city are only rated because of the foot fall, there's a far greater concentration of lazy housewives up in the city than in any of the towns outside of it. Daniels chips in Bandon craps all over lennoxs mushy wannabe chips, it's purely the fact that lennoxs are camped within a student hotspot that they command those votes. Outside of the city environs, chippers have to try!!!!! The slop you get in lennoxs and dino's is lard soaked morsels of actual food. I must say though, kc's is a step on from a chipper, almost a up market deli/takeaway diner, can't see how it can be classes as a chipper.

    Well, the thread is in the cork city forum...
    Outside the city, I like the chips in Franks in carrigtwohill.


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    #270
    theglobe
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭theglobe


    there was another negative post about zicos that was deleted. I went into that place across from the mardyke, adkins food hall, a few days ago. Was actually decent surprisingly. The burger was pretty ****e but I got chips and a potato pie too and they went down easy. Cautious recommendation.


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    #271
    kcb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭kcb


    pwurple wrote: »
    There are a few things the locals do in KC's that newbs don't know about. First of all, I completely agree, the chips are not great at all. Skip them. The pita's and the burgers are where the good stuff is hiding out.

    On avoiding grease, ask for the pita to be toasted, not fried. Takes a little bit longer, but it makes the world of difference. The hook for some people is that everything can be customised in there. You get the mexican pita with garlic mayo instead of ordinary mayo, the fajita burger with extra jalepenos... etc. You get the idea. You might have noticed people nearly reading out an essay ordering, that's what is going on there.

    I personally don't there there is a better burger in cork. Proper ciabatta buns, proper butcher's burgers. Cooked well. Nice choice of things to go on them. Yum.

    Baffled how a place can be considered 'best chipper' if even it's biggest fans admit the chips are awful!


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