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| - So here's my beef with Cork:
A group of friends took me out to Cork for my birthday dinner. It was a Sunday night around 7:30pm. The restaurant was near empty (there was one other group of 6 next to us). The service was only okay, with so few people in the restaurant I would have expected top notch service. However, we would often have to flag down our waiter just to get more water or bread.
We were then told that Cork's protein portion tend to be small. Well, we found that the entire dish was extremely small, not just the protein. I will say that most of the dishes were innovative. We ordered six dishes to share amongst five people. We had the hanger steak, waygu strip loin, antelope, duck, lamb chop, and pork belly. I thought the first four were quite tasty, the lamb chop was nothing special, and the pork belly was lack luster. However my biggest issue was that for the price ($23-$30 each) the portions were extremely underwhelming, we really needed to order about three entrees each in order to be somewhat full.
The desserts were probably the best part. We ordered the banana cream pie, black and white cake and chocolate with espresso gelato. I'd order the banana cream pie again.
After scarfing down six plates of bread, six entrees, three desserts, many pitchers of water, and $300 later we were talking about the next restaurant to go to so we'd be full ( the dollar menu at McDonald's was thrown out a couple of times due to our wallets being empty after this meal).
I'd try happy hour but I think dinner won't be an option next time.
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