Num­ber 1 of Sun­day Times Ireland’s 100 Best Restau­rants 2025

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The Irish Exam­iner Review – Joe McNamee

Joe McNamee in the Irish Exam­iner Sat, 02 Jul, 2022 writes

… the food is often excep­tional: bal­anced, cre­ative com­po­si­tions, some­times even play­ful, yet always tak­ing the most sim­ple, direct route, no faffing around at the fringes

Read the full review on irishexa​m​iner​.com

Thank you @jozeemac @irishexaminer 🙏🙏🙏https://t.co/kHWYh6CcIT

— Goldie (@goldie_cork) July 2, 2022

Goldie fea­tured on Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails RTÉ 1

Catch up with Neven Maguire as he drops in on Cork with his Irish Seafood Trails show. In the city, he chats with Aish­ling here in Goldie about the restau­rant and our ‘whole catch’ approach. He also stops off at Good Day Deli, before head­ing out to Bal­ly­cot­ton to the Trawler Boyz seafood truck.

Watch now on the RTÉ Player

First broad­cast on RTÉ 1 on Tues­day 2 Feb 2022

The Irish Times Mag­a­zine – Corinna Hardgrave

Great dishes from @goldie_cork a @MichelinGuideUK Bib Gour­mand restau­rant in Cork city where @ashy_moore keeps it sus­tain­able with a whole catch approach. Review in today’s @IrishTimesMag pic​.twit​ter​.com/​j​9​n​V​A​5Xneo

— Corinna Hard­grave (@CorinaHardgrave) Jan­u­ary 22, 2022

A very of-​the-​moment restau­rant: casual vibe, pleas­ant ser­vice – and very tasty fish

This city cen­tre din­ing room’s global flavours add spark and orig­i­nal­ity to local produce

Read the review on the Irish Times web­site (sub­scrip­tion required)

The Sun­day Times review – Lise Hand

Lise Hand in the The Sun­day Times on 3 Oct 2021 writes:

“Goldie is a bit of a trea­sure. There is a fear­less­ness to Aish­ling Moore, a will­ing­ness to take the plunge afresh every day as the catch dic­tates. The dishes are infused with an exu­ber­ance and imag­i­na­tion, Mid­dle East­ern and east­ern spices and tex­tures woven into local pro­duce grown on the land, caught in the ocean, for­aged on the shore or unearthed at the Eng­lish Market.

Only in busi­ness since 2019 (with a pan­demic in the mid­dle), Goldie is a close-​knit team, clearly immensely proud of their Miche­lin acco­lade — their chef’s first but not, one sus­pects, her last.”

read the full review here (sub­scrip­tion required)

The Miche­lin Guide – Bib Gour­mand award

Bib Gour­mand award, Jan­u­ary 2021

A lively, on-​trend seafood bistro with an open kitchen and a stripped-​back feel; the tight-​knit team offer friendly ser­vice and the feel is relaxed and infor­mal. The daily menu offers well-​priced, mod­ern dishes which use a ‘gill-​to-​fin’ approach, mak­ing use of the whole catch from the smaller day boats.

Read more on guide​.miche​lin​.com

Lively seafood bistro @goldie_cork offers well-priced gill-to-fin cooking earning it a Bib Gourmand#Cork #BibGourmand #MICHELINguideGBI pic.twitter.com/LwU9YweLWa

— The MICHELIN Guide (@MichelinGuideUK) January 25, 2021

Sun­day Times Food Magazine

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So delighted to be included in @corinnahardgrave ‘s article on gill to fin cooking @sundaytimesfood 🙏 #gilltofin #wholecatchapptoach #wearecork #sundaytimesfood

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Echo Live

Fea­tured in Echo Live Thurs­day 20 Feb 2020

Open­ing her own restau­rant was a dream come true for Aish­ling Moore, of Goldie Fish & Ale, writes KATE RYAN, who catches up with the woman who was recently crowned ‘Chef of the Year’ by the McKenna’s Guides

Read the full fea­ture here

Busi­ness Post review – Gillian Nelis

Sun 26 Jan 2020

Gillian Nelis in the Busi­ness Post writes:

“Eat­ing in Goldie is good for the stom­ach and good for the soul – I can’t remem­ber the last time I encoun­tered such lovely staff and such a nice vibe.”

read the full review here (sub­scrip­tion required)

Cork Billy

Read the full review on cork​billy​.com

Time to go fishing folks! Head to Goldie https://t.co/hBR4G85VEM @goldie_cork @market_lane @ElbowLaneCork @CooleaCheese #fish #ale #HavenShellfish @pure_cork #Cork #ThisIsIrishFood #blogger @susiesue12 @ashy_moore pic.twitter.com/MRLC9XQbH6

— Billy Lyons (@CorkBilly) January 31, 2020

Sun­day Times 100 Best Restaurants

We are delighted to be fea­tured in the Sun­day Times 100 best Restau­rants in Ire­land for 2020

Thanks Kate!! https://t.co/tcnXnvJtfQ

— Goldie (@goldie_cork) January 26, 2020

Our upstairs din­ing room is now open

We’ve opened our new first floor din­ing room for 2020 and can’t wait to show it off. As we have dou­bled our capac­ity, we are pleased to take a lim­ited amount of reser­va­tions. We are open Tues­day to Sat­ur­day from 5pm. Walk in any­time or book on [email address — enable javascript to view]

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Eater​.com 22 Essen­tial Restau­rants in Cork 2020

Goldie fea­tures in the Eater​.com list of the 22 Essen­tial Restau­rants in Cork for 2020 along with our sis­ter restau­rant (and neigh­bour) Elbow Lane Brew & Smoke House

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Georgina Campell’s Ire­land Guide

With fish com­ing almost exclu­sively from small day boats fish­ing out of Bal­ly­cot­ton, a ‘whole catch pol­icy’ and ‘gill to tail’ approach, we love every­thing about @goldie_cork

Read more on ire​land​-guide​.com

New recommendation! With fish coming almost exclusively from small day boats fishing out of Ballycotton, a 'whole catch policy' and 'gill to tail' approach, we love everything about @goldie_cork. Read our review here: https://t.co/4gAAKaQjHp pic.twitter.com/Ne4jrWzu57

— Ireland Guide (@IrelandGuide) January 8, 2020

Irish Inde­pen­dent

Cork’s deli­ciously inno­v­a­tive new fish restau­rant is quite the catch

Read the review by Katy McGuin­ness on inde​pen​dent​.ie (reg­is­tra­tion required)

Thanks @katymcguinness pic.twitter.com/S71qcSRvJn

— Goldie (@goldie_cork) December 28, 2019

“Chef of the year ” – McKenna’s Guides

In Cork city, Aish­ling Moore’s whole-​fish cook­ery in Goldie showed the cap­cious phi­los­o­phy of the best cook in town, and Ms Moore is our Chef of the Year.

Read more on Guides​.ie

Restaurant, chef and food experience of the Year #megabitesawards https://t.co/eBpfwPsV9K @BarFisk @LignumGalway @goldie_cork pic.twitter.com/03AiaFTEgX

— Dr. & Dr. John & Sally McKenna (@McKennasGuides) December 31, 2019

McKen­nas Guides

McKen­nas Guides writ­ing on Insta­gram on 12 Decem­ber 2019

“… some of the best, most intrigu­ing and dynamic mod­ern Irish food”

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For a young chef, Aishling Moore of Cork’s @goldierestaurant is raucously fearless. She will put ling and pollock on her menu as main course fish. She puts gherkin ketchup with roasted beets. Her brandade is so agrestic that it’s like something exported to Cork from the Iberian trade routes back in 1750. People, she serves a dish of crunchy fish spines with her own togarashi as one of the Goldie snacks. Give her a culinary inch, and Ms Moore will push the envelope a culinary mile. The result is some of the best, most intriguing and dynamic modern Irish food. Despite her out-there style, Cork loves Aishling Moore’s food: when she cooked in Elbow Lane you couldn’t get a seat. In Goldie, it’s the same story: get there early, or get your heart crushed by disappointment. And whilst critics tend to compare female chefs to other female chefs, Aishling Moore has no comparison and Goldie shimmers thanks to Cork’s new leading light. #Cork #irelandthebest

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Joe McNamee, Irish Examiner

Reviewing @goldie_cork where chef @ashy_moore is already doing splendid things with much more to come! https://t.co/lGdXtGySHN

— Joe McNamee (@jozeemac) December 22, 2019

Tom Door­ley, Irish Daily Mail review

Our first press review is by Tom Door­ley writ­ing in the Irish Daily Mail.

“… one of the most excit­ing things to hap­pen food in the city in a very long time”

Read the full review on tom​door​ley​.com

Thank you so much @tomdoorley !! pic.twitter.com/zvvB7yNS93

— Goldie restaurant (@goldie_cork) October 5, 2019