Nosta Restaurant — Restaurant in Cork

“You can’t cover the sun in mud”. Indeed, but it seems you can leave a floor covered in urine without a worry to your sleeping habits. 3/1/23 - Updating to include feedback to the owner’s reply to original.

Since reading your replies to other less favourable ratings, we expected you you to take no responsibility whatsoever. However, thanks for your attempt to be smart with your advice and guidance of checking prices before we dine.

What I actually should have done first was check your disgusting toilets!

It was our choice to visit having seen various prior social media activity which looked very enticing and we made you a ’must do’ on our next visit to Cork City.

You may also note, we both browsed your menus before entering. Including the two that are left on the tables within your outdoors area.

Price is not a barrier to purchase any service or product we may choose. Our shared experiences are invaluable.

We have had the good fortune to pay a lot more for a lot less in many comparable venues.

Simply, we see if there are dishes that are appealing - of which there were actually very many!

However, we do expect the quality of food, service and surrounds to be reflective of price to be charged. Sadly, on this occasion, we were disappointed.

Perhaps you can invest some of the excessive mark up on your minerals to buy a mop, a toilet seat and a top up of soap. Original Review :

End of festive season ‘dad n lad’ treat leaves a sour taste ……..

The relative high price for comparable venues is not reflected in the very average quality.

Albeit the portions for mains are well sized, the accompanying cup of orange rice and little salad sideshow, with a cute addition of €4.50 little bowl of ‘skin on frozen chips’, are pitiful.

Excessive mark up on minerals at €3.90. We see no cans, and see no ice.

Overall, staff were not very engaging between what appeared to be a shift changeover.

Bar staff need to learn to clean cutlery and place without excessive noise of throwing them into the tray. The banging and clanging most noticeable in such a quiet room.

Two others need to learn to chat among themselves in quieter tones away from customers’ table.

To end the disappointing visit, the toilet was swimming with urine on the floor and had a broken seat. Thankfully only needed the stand up version!

The check list sheet on the back of the door had shown nothing checked for a good while. Mentioned to staff when paying €75 bill (two courses x 2, two drinks) but the general attitude seemed to be ‘oh, pay please, and go’.

Replies to other less favourable reviews on here show the arrogance which is apparent throughout. Wish had read them sooner....

Ladies & Gents

I discovered this gem of a Turkish restaurant in early 2023 ironically as a result of a recommendation from a city meeting.

It is situated in a pedestrian side street. It has a lovely ground floor street entrance & ambiance including a section of outdoor seating . To date I have always been met/greeted by a warm friendly welcome after my travels by it’s dedicated loyal hard working team of Barbara Oscar Stephen & Pepe to date. I also met & spoke to Niko it’s owner. A lovely warm friendly gent who knows all about looking after its customers both local & afar.

The decor & setting within is very warm & appealing with plenty of choices of seating areas to suit the couple or group settings.

As with all my travels the 1st place I check are the Loos ( they have always been up to full hygiene standard @ Nosta albeit it would be recommended to have flagrant candles or similar refreshing odours within. Full WC separate toilet. All on ground floor.

Having a family member who is WC bound I can never understand restaurants/pubs advertised as WC friendly & then having such toilets upstairs in way off locations within ( unless proper lifts are within)

Thankfully Nosta is 5 star ⭐️ WC friendly. The choice of menus is amazing from its traditional Turkish kebeps and Kofte to European dishes to suit all taste’s including Vegetarian dietary requests.

Dishes are always 5 ⭐️ and exactly as set out on menus & served very efficiently by its dedicated Team.

Customers can also enjoy their tasty meals amidst the ambiance of its hard working chefs/cooking areas.

This is a gem of a restaurant to visit. Highly recommended One will not be disappointed

One thing I would like to see given the strong Turkish/Mediterranean Cork community connections, it would be so nice for locals/visitors alike to dine amidst the ambience of authentic Turkish musical ambiance.

Just akin to dining in a similar French/Italian restaurant with French/Italian musical setting

A minor matter — everyone may not agree

I look forward to definitely returning...

I went for a dinner at this place with my friends because of the good reviews and high rating scores on internet. But unfortunately we got so disappointed with the taste and flavour of foods here. My friends ordered a coffee, but they said the coffee had terrible taste and flavour like a washing liquid from the coffee machine. They expected to get the real Turkish coffee. Then I ordered spicy minced lamb with rice, which the taste and flavour were exactly like normal Kebab that the price is 5-6 euro. But the bad joke is this Kebab costs 19 euro!!! It is a big disappointed experience that we have had in this place. Also the manager is very rude and mean to us. He was creating a new payment policy that we have not heard from anywhere else. The reason that he created new policy of payment was he didn't want to pay extra to the bank and credit card company. I would give a big red warning text outside of this restaurant that "Please keep away from this place and just go to other real restaurants". The price of foods here is triple times more than the quality you will get. It is really really really disappointed ☹️. To give a suggestion to who is gonna visit this restaurant, "Don't order any desserts, because they don't tell you the price" So they will charge you whatever they want. And I could tell you, they charged us double price compared to the Market Lane restaurant. Not to mention about the flavour and taste of desserts here, I am sorry......it is waaaaaaaaay too far down compared to the...