Brian's Visit: The Ivory Tower

Went to this amazing restaurant in Cork that Claire had told us about, the Ivory Tower.

She warned us that there is basically no entrance to this place, and you really need to know what you were looking for. You have to walk through and up these stairs through this whole Bohemian sort of place that reminded me more of the house Patrick's old apartment used to be in than an actual restaurant.

Well, the thing was - the food was absolutely amazing. We did an 8 course tasting menu, which is basically whatever the chef is feeling at the time. Some of the stuff are things from the main menu - other things are just thrown together from what looked good at the market. Great part is that they also did a Vegetarian option, which was absolutely fantastic too - not just leave off the meat stuff - but some definitely unique veg dishes.

Apologies on the video quality - couldn't bring myself to turn on the flash until the end. And to keep the portions in perspective - every dish was no bigger than 5 inches or so. We were still fat when we left, but not like you're expect if you were thinking a full plate.