Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

The price is low indeed, 9.50 euros including 2 eggs? For nothing!

Rösti with bratwurst & salat would set you back 30-35+ CHF in Bern or Zürich, without the eggs. Although, Swiss would turn up their noses at the burnt rösti in the pic...

Not really, head along the beach away from the town, onto the board walk and it's there after the first section of bw tucked in by the shop. It is good to be fair.

€3.50 extra for any variation on the burger and the burger nearly €10😲

As above, or an 8 minute walk from the main road according to maps.

Their multiple angry signs saying toilets only for customers, no bags etc really puts me off going there. That and its "Tapas by numbers" menu. Oh and the management responses to negative reviews are knarky and humourless.

It's probably not for me 😂

The Spitjack today for lunch - I love their chicken Cesar salad - the best in Cork IMO, obviously because of that juicy, luscious chicken and lashings of dressing :-D

But it's only an extra 3.50 to wash it down with a can of Lucozade.

I'll admit, when the dressing is on the side I give it a really strong side-eye. I hope the answer is they asked for it like that!

*rant incoming, soz to those who get their dressing on the side, I'm going to be judging you now. >:D

How is it possible to dress a salad well on a plate? I can't manage it at home without a big bowl to toss it around. You then end up using the dressing as a dip/sauce, it's all unevenly distributed with big gloopy puddles, or splattered on yourself. And from my student days working in a restaurant in the US, where "on the side" was popular, the people who get it on the side need way more, because they can't do it thinly without the bowl. The portion of dressing for on-the-side was twice what it was for dressed in the kitchen... otherwise we would be asked for more. Is it that you want the extra? Just ask for extra then?

Getting it right, not too heavy, or not too light is a skill the chefs should have, that I don't, because I don't make 50 salads a day. What am I paying for if they don't dress it, it's just a pile of ingredients not assembled into a meal. I might as well buy a tesco pillow pack of lettuce and squeeze out the plastic sachet, sitting in a dingy bedsit with one tiny table for a kitchen. It's the same reason I don't like the Hot Rock fad, or fondue chinoise, where you get a rock or a pot of boiling water and cook your own stuff... If I wanted to cook my own food I'd use my own kitchen, not make an unholy mess trying to cook on an eating table.

I think best way to dress a salad is in a bowl with some appropriate implements but overdoing it and drowning the leaves is not uncommon which is one of the reasons I've been wary of Caesar salads to date! I was just wondering if they were serving undressed leaves in Spitjack because of the jug of dressing but leahyl confirmed it was extra. I also thought people requested dressing on the side to avoid the calories contained in the dressing. If people want to eat dry leaves dolloped with the occasional blob of dressing who am I to stand in their way!

Don't think you're keeping anything to yourself with Five Points - it's pretty popular with a lot of people! Although I actually haven't been to the one on McCurtain St yet, just the one in Marina Park - that's mainly cos it's either too busy when I go or else it's closed - they close early enough on a Saturday.

Looking forward to trying the place in the Glucksman, I'm working in UCC so hopefully will get there soon. It looks nice 😀

Went to Spitjack for lunch. Wasn't overly impressed. Very chaotic but lots of empty tables. We were forgotten about for 15 mins when it came to ordering. Food took another 30 mins.

2 teens had pancakes (ok) and waffles (dry and possibly pre purchased). Very expensive imo for those. I had Cesar salad, chicken lovely, but salad and dressing, including bacon were tasteless imo.

Felt rushed out, not asked if we wanted desserts or coffee, speed of bill, and card machine produced in quick succession, even though there were empty tables.

Goldie?

I really enjoyed Goldie (first & only visit was last month).

The main course portions are small. So you’d end up supplementing them with sides.

The food is great.

Service very much fell off a cliff once we’d received our main course, disappointing.

Quinlans is a lovely fish resturant - not sure if they have monkfish on the menu though but maybe they'd have it as one of their specials...