Restaurant review: Oscar’s working hard to find recipe for success in Cork City
Oscar’s Café, in Cork City centre, was ticking over nicely at noon on the Friday before Christmas. Personable and open, owner Daragh Fitzgerald greeted his customers, often by name, and chatted as he prepared orders for takeaway or served tables.
Daragh was the recent winner of a restaurant makeover competition with restaurant advisor Bláthnaid Bergin on the John Murray show on RTÉ radio 1. The newly-refurbished interior of the Cook Street café is not particularly striking; a tiled counter surround vaguely reminiscent of an old-fashioned butcher’s is pleasing, but purely ornamental light-fittings strike an irritatingly faddish note when the real light source is modern fittings set in the ceiling.
