Isaac’s
Food style/ethnicity: Modern Mish-Mash
Price: 40 – 60 (Euro)
Location:
48 MacCurtain Street
Cork City
Ireland
We went out with some vendors last night to Isaac’s in town. I’ve often heard it mentioned in the past. It was jammed at 7.30 when we arrived and was still jammed at 9.30 when we left. Fantastic room with great decor and a very nice feel to the place.
Service all night was quite sullen but good and efficient. Slight issue with the booze. Our foreign visitors wanted Guinness and all that was on offer was Henineken or Budweiser Budvar from the Czech Republic. Where were these visitors from? Yup you guessed it.
As all were tired we went straight for main courses. Menu was one of those kitchen sink types with pasta, steak, curry and anything else anyone could ever ask for. Zero sense of a “style” of cooking. I went with one of the specials which was john dory on a red pepper sauce. The others went with things across the entire range. My sauce was fine, my side vegetables tasty and my fish overcooked to rubber. Everyone elses looked ok and were all big portions.
Coffees were good.
Average over-priced food. But as I said, they were jammed so well done to them on finding a lucrative niche.
[tags]Isaacs, MacCurtain Street, Budvar[/tags]
April 7, 2006 at 9:59 am
I’ve never completely understood the raves Isaac’s gets, I’ve only eaten there a handful of times over the years. On my first experience I had overcooked fish, which put me off for a couple of years. But I did have an excellent lunch there in ’04, with the best squid I’ve ever had – so hit-and-miss.
February 26, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Tried the new Jury’s hotel on Sat night, to watch the French rugby and grab some food. Great sandwiches, with all the trimmings. Good service too. But the highlight of our wobbly visit was the Dyson ‘AirBlades’ hand dryers in the Gents. Worth a trip alone to check those babies out.
February 26, 2007 at 1:33 pm
We were walking past the other weekend and I was surprised to see it open so soon.
I’ll hafta check the hand dryer.
We had a bad Dyson experience. I went out 7 years ago to get one after a good bonus. Brought it home to proudly show Catherine and then tried it out. Seemed fine but no great shakes.
Discovered over time that the reason they don’t lose suction is that they have bugger all to start with.
And they never mention the unholy mess emptying them makes. Try doing it on a windy day.
So we now have an old school Miele which would lift floorboards and has a nice clean bag inside it.
Am I really blogging about a vacuum cleaner that I never touch?
February 26, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Indeed, perhaps the Dyson handdryers might not be the best for little hands. It was bad enough with a few pints on board for one 39yr old (I think I actually wet my hands again on purpose such was the buzz. Sad, but true)
There was a four-piece band playing ‘lounge’ muzak in the bar area – average age about 80years. They were not loud and lead singer chap had permed, dyed hair. Again with the power of Heineken this was hilarious.
That was until he asked the bar manager to switch off the rugby game on tv as his start time was 9pm. Toys were out of the pram then for JD and his motley crew of Heinekened friends. We sulked, finished our bevs and departed.
Great food though. To be recommended.
February 26, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I’ll keep it in mind. Should be child friendly during the day too I’m guessing.