Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

O’Callaghans Mitchelstown today for lunch - food and staff wer fab - we ordered desert - I discretely asked one of the waitresses to put a candle on the brownie if she had one - mate's BD next week - 2 staff came out with desert and sang BD to my mate - she was totally surprised and loved it! fair play to them.. we stopped talking then to devour the desert - the brownie was warm - omg it was divine - drool..

But all in all - a fab friendly restaurant - food is top drawer!!! the deserts - OMG - wow. I highly recommend it.

I was at the Quay Coop for lunch earlier, glad to see it back to the older canteen style set up rather than the table service they experimented with for a while after the CV-19 shutdown.

Lennox’s is crap though :)

Honestly, I never really rated Lennox's.

You aren't unique the way you think you are. Several people on this thread, myself included have stated that they don't rate Izz. Same for Lennox's.

Ah right, that explains it. You are the only one 👍

Not too sweet?

Syrupy sauces are a big problem for me in those kind of Asian restaurants. Same problem with cheap Japanese restaurants - everything apart from sushi tends to be very sweet!

Nosta (lamb grill plate is my favourite thing there), Four Liars and...... Not sure. Maybe Coriander for a decent Indian ( only been to the ballincollig one).

not a restaurant per se, but had probably thee best chips of my life at Joesfarmcrisps Killeagh yday - spent the avo picking sunflowers there - proper chips made from their own potatoes - divine - was almost gonna get a 2nd helping - fab day out too - check it out on social media - fun to had by kids of all ages - you can buy produce and other goods too

Is it still cash only there? I got caught out there before, only had cards and other currencies with me.

Will definitely be giving that a go!

mad - you only reviewed Ignite a few days ago…

Treated myself twice to Samosas last week.

Once at the Sensasion stall at the Mahon farmer's market and at the Stewstore in Douglas. Both excellent.

A takeaway putting food out in 10 minutes doesn't seem unreasonable to me. What takeaway food is cooked from scratch?

Thanks for posting, and the review. I find it hard to agree that the menu looks good. The menu would put me off there in how it is written. How they are describing the food is complicated, too hard to understand honestly. Even having read it a few times now, I still don't fully get it. I can't imagine what someone running a translation tool would make of it, and how do you even order it without sounding like an eejit who can't form a sentence.

Take the example of the charcuterie board item called "Shouldn't have done that Ireland" Firstly, what? You say "I'll have a shouldn't have done that please"? And on the board is a red cabbage panna cotta. I can't even grasp what that could be and how a panna cotta works on a charcuterie board? Maybe it's not a charcuterie board but some sort of deconstructed item? Also don't understand calling a menu item "Chicken are Chicken". "Chicken Sandwich" works fine lads, and if there's some in joke or meme for "chicken are chicken", I don't know it. This gives it a feeling of exclusion, not being part of the cool gang who gets it.

If you're a vegetarian, there isn't much for you there either, just one lonely item on the whole menu (poke?) and it's not well marked as either vegetarian or vegan, which it could be. Both the soups there are meat-based, at least french onion soup usually is, and the boards and all the sandwiches have meat. It's easy to do a meat-free board, include some roasted veg, olives and cheese, and not too tricky to do a veg or cheese sandwich either.

So not a well balanced menu imho.