Restaurant review: Smiles all round thanks to delicious food at Moody Cafe Vin Bar

Patatas bravas, craft beer and Chocolate Torte and Orange Ice Cream all on the menu at this cheery space on Cork's Lower Glanmire Road

Moody Café Vin, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork

Moody Cafe Vin Bar is on the ground floor of an iconic Cork city building, dating back to 1900. Nestling in a Y-shaped junction at the foot of Summerhill North and Lower Glanmire Road, the charming red-bricked oddity, sporting an elegant little tower capped with lead roof, is shaped like an arrowhead that narrows to a ‘point’, looking back towards MacCurtain St and the city centre.

For decades, Summerhill North served as a boundary of Cork’s ‘bohemian quarter,’ formerly grand old Georgian and Victorian homes of Wellington Road and St Luke’s becoming the flats and bedsits of struggling artists and musicians; Kent Station is just 500m further along Lower Glanmire Road, that neighbourhood long wearing a louche scruffiness peculiar to urban railway stations and their environs.