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New Opening Hours at Cafe Paradiso · 8 January 2009

From the 20th January, there will be a couple of major changes to the opening hours in Cafe Paradiso.

For some time, there has been a demand for an earlier dinner sitting, which we simply haven’t been able to offer due to the pressure on the kitchen in the short time between the end of lunch and start of dinner. It takes two teams of chefs and floor staff to operate both lunch and dinner and the turnaround time is very tight.

Now, at the beginning of a new year that promises to be a tough one for the restaurant trade, we feel it is best to concentrate more on dinner, not only by opening earlier but also offering a pre-theatre menu. This menu will offer two and three course options at very reasonable prices.

To do this, we will be streamlining the operation of the business, effectively working with one team instead of two, and serving lunch only on Saturdays. Lunch in Paradiso down the years has become something of a Cork institution, and it has been a great pleasure for us as much as for you, the customers who kept it buzzing. It is with a fair amount of sadness that we are taking this decision. However, we are confident that it is the right path to take and that the service we offer will, if anything, be improved by a tighter focus and a wider range of options in the evening.

We hope that those of you who have been regular customers at lunch time will find the new dinner hours, menus and prices attractive and useful, and that we will be seeing you at the end of your day’s work instead of the middle. Saturday lunch will continue as before, in all its bustling, chatty glory.

So, from Tuesday 20th January, the new opening hours will be as follows –

Lunch, Saturday 12 noon – 3pm.
Dinner, Tuesday to Saturday, 5.30 – 10pm

#1 · Richard Wallstein

Thursday, 05 February, 2009

Just read about your new hours. I am so disappointed as I am coming over to Cork in a week for a meeting and thought, as my flight is in the morning and my meeting is in the afternoon, that I would have lunch at the Cafe – I haven’t been in a while. Now I can’t. Is there anywhere else nearly as good and nice, that I might hang out and eat for a while?

#2 · john murphy

Friday, 14 August, 2009

disappointed your not open on sunday as i work long hours and sunday is my only free time , my girlfriend is vegetarian and adores your restaurant

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