Best place for coffee in Cork

Loire

I usually try and head into town for an hour at the weekend with a magazine. Usual haunts of mine are Idaho Cafe, Cork Coffee Roasters and last Sunday I went to Costa Coffee. Idaho is probably my favourite for overall setting. During the week I pick up coffees at Italee on Oliver Plunket Street...fab coffee!

Where's you favourite place for a coffee in Cork?

foxyboxer

LA Bagels on Oliver Plunkett St.

Get a window seat and watch all the characters of cork walk by.

Dermighty

Gusto on Washington Street has the best cappuccino.

Butlers has a nice americano.

Owen

Love the coffee in Butlers, but starting to like Gloria Jeans' Coffee Pod now just to sit for a while and watch the world pass by.

Bogsnorkler

Cafe Depeche, the one beside the gate cinema. Really like everything about it.

headmaster

Dunnes, Tesco, Super value, they all have excellent brands and most work out at between 10 to 16c per cup.

headmaster

headmaster wrote: »

Dunnes, Tesco, Super value, they all have excellent brands and most work out at between 10 to 16c per cup.

For a few euro it's sometimes nice to have a cup of coffee out and about, chill out, gather ones thoughts etc. One of life's simple pleasures.

A cuppa at home is lovely too no doubt, one deserves a little treat in today's hectic life though.

Sephiroth_dude

where do ye think serves the best hot chocolate? oh and the best coffee is the place across the road from finn corner on washington street,can't think of the name.

horgan_p

Coffee central in the English market.
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markok84

Fellini's on Carey's lane used to be a lot better than it is now. They need to service their machine I think, lots of fines in the coffee, but it's still a lovely spot to relax in for half an hour. All in all you can't beat coffee roasters though.

Alternatively you can whip into Gurmans on Fenn's Quay and get some Jamaican blue mountain, (a snip at €280 a kilo) and brew your own at home! :pac:

miss_shadow

I'd fully agree with having a stroll around. Little shops are doing coffee now, the likes of the english market is great for sitting and letting the atmosphere go on around you whilst you sit there supping your coffee is quite a good buzz.

There is a place at the end where smyths toy shop is. I can't recall the name but walk past smyths and past 'pisces' pet shop on the left they do very good coffee and always a good atmosphere in there and of course good coffee too.

markok84

miss_shadow wrote: »

There is a place at the end where smyths toy shop is. I can't recall the name but walk past smyths and past 'pisces' pet shop on the left they do very good coffee and always a good atmosphere in there and of course good coffee too.

That's Idaho.

JaneHudson

I heard the new Italian place on Oliver Plunkett street opposite Milano's is good but I haven't been there yet.

kcb

JaneHudson wrote: »

I heard the new Italian place on Oliver Plunkett street opposite Milano's is good but I haven't been there yet.

ITALEE

Quality. Proper Italian. Proper coffee.

Those places like Gloria Jeans and Gusto and Insomnia are a disgrace. Rip-off and unfriendly.

Loire

kcb wrote: »

ITALEE

Quality. Proper Italian. Proper coffee.

+1

randomuser77

horgan_p wrote: »

Coffee central in the English market.
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+1

Not just my favourite in Cork but my favourite anywhere, ever.

Loire

randomuser77 wrote: »

+1

Not just my favourite in Cork but my favourite anywhere, ever.

Is that the smaller one in the middle or the bigger one down by the fish mongers?

randomuser77

Loire wrote: »

Is that the smaller one in the middle or the bigger one down by the fish mongers?

It's the one in the middle. As seen on the interweb.

Malari

randomuser77 wrote: »

+1

Not just my favourite in Cork but my favourite anywhere, ever.

Coffee Central isn't somewhere you'd linger for a while with a book, or for a long chat with a friend though is it? I've stood there and had a coffee before, and it's a bit jostly Is the coffee that good? I'm not exactly a connoisseur but I go to coffee places mainly for the atmosphere and a nice place to sit for a while. I like Idaho and Gusto.

Vivara

Anyone who has any idea about coffee knows, yes, as people have said, that Coffee Central in the English Market has the best coffee in town. No doubt about it.

Any of these franchises, Butlers, Insomnia, Gloria Jeans, as people has said too, generally have mass-market coffee that really is very poor. It's mainly just an image.

Cork Coffee Roasters has excellent coffee too, but it really has become a brand and image too and it depends on who is banging away at the coffee machine... sometimes the coffee can be good, other times awful.

Coffee Central is the only place that consistently trains people who can make consistently good coffee. (And yes, it's the one that you see as you go in to the left from the Princes St. entrance. You can't miss it, because it's always packed.)

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Malari wrote: »

Coffee Central isn't somewhere you'd linger for a while with a book, or for a long chat with a friend though is it? I've stood there and had a coffee before, and it's a bit jostly.

Know what you're saying. It may have the best coffee, but probably isn't the best 'place for coffee'!

Malari wrote: »

Is the coffee that good?

Yes. Yes it is!

BailMeOut

Coffee in the Crawford Art Gallery is excellent.

Malari

Vivara wrote: »

EDIT:

Know what you're saying. It may have the best coffee, but probably isn't the best 'place for coffee'!



Yes. Yes it is!

Ok, I'll have to try it again. Mostly though, I'm meeting friends for coffee on a Saturday afternoon and it's the last place to go if you want to talk! I'm gonna try a takeaway though next time I go through the Market

jacko1

Cafe Gusto & Coffee Central

Solair

Café Gusto
Bodega
Cork Coffee Roasters

kcb

Vivara wrote: »

Anyone who has any idea about coffee knows, yes, as people have said, that Coffee Central in the English Market has the best coffee in town. No doubt about it.

You've never been to Italee so!

Milly33

I was recently introduced to the Coffee in McDonals and I have to say tis yummie for €1 I think it is really nice, tasty coffee

run_Forrest_run

Milly33 wrote: »

I was recently introduced to the Coffee in McDonals and I have to say tis yummie for €1 I think it is really nice, tasty coffee

while it may no be cool to mention the M word I must agree with you Milly. Lately I had a white coffee at the one in Mahon Point and I was well impressed.
Recently got a coffee to go in Gloria Jeans (sorry!) and christ it was awful, just too damn hot.
RE: Cork Coffee Roasters, I've had good and bad there. Dying to try Italee and Coffee Central now.

markok84

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

Dying to try Italee and Coffee Central now.

While you're in Italee get a chocolate mousse to go with your coffee, you will not be disappointed..... seriously they're amazing.

run_Forrest_run

markok84 wrote: »

While you're in Italee get a chocolate mousse to go with your coffee, you will not be disappointed..... seriously they're amazing.

ooh, now you're talkin'

Delaine

Yes to the Bodega for coffee! Friendly service, really nice place to just kick back and read a book, or chat to your pals. And the best part is they serve you the coffee on a silver platter, with a little gold bar of chocolate and a shot of water! A shot of water with your coffee, its just swish! Love it.

ncur

+1 for the recommendation for Cafe Depeche by the Gate cinema. Will have to check out Italee and Coffee Central based on the various posts here also.