Restaurants popping up across Cork city
In its day, and as a classic of its type, the Oyster, with its mahogany panelling and mirrored walls was for generations the epicentre of fine dining, long business ‘lunches’, PR, sales and marketing schmoozing, and quite the place to impress a date, or celebrate a big family event.
Originally known as the Royal Oyster Tavern and Dining Room, it had a pedigree dating at least to the early 1900s, and was sold by the Nicholson family of Woodford Bourne & Co wine importers fame in 1990, before going into a succession of ownerships and subsequent decline.
