Restaurant review: I am excited to see what Cairo 2 Cork food truck does next with its menu

I first heard of the Cairo 2 Cork food truck upon learning the Egyptian ambassador to Ireland had written to its chef-proprietor Nivene Sadick to congratulate her on being the first to serve Egyptian food in Ireland.

Cairo 2 Cork is a canny offering. Picture: Joe McNamee

Our rating: 7/10

On a torrential November morn that requires plotting a route into town to avoid multiple floods, we end up parked atop Paul St Car Park. It is a structure not so much brutalist architecture as just plain brutal, as if caveman had been given concrete and a three-week turnaround time, a shoe-in for ugliest edifice in Cork if it weren’t eclipsed by the even uglier North Main St car park a few hundred metres west along the river.