Café Paradiso

One of the oldest establishments in Cork, Café Paradiso is a vegetarian venue but has become an icon in the city’s dining scene. Having received many awards and accolades through the years, the café combines ingredients and mixes flavours in unexpected ways, rendering each course a delicious work of art. The venue’s success has been so great that the owner Dennis Cotter has published four cookbooks. With a menu that is constantly reinvented using fresh, seasonal ingredients, the 20-year-old restaurant is still hard to beat, offering a vegetarian selection that includes sushi, risotto with blood orange salad, beets and blue cheese, couscous with feta and butternut squash pine nuts.