It's best to make the upstairs-or-downstairs choice based on the kind of act you're seeing.
10 p.m. 10) ESCAPE THE FIDDLES For a night out without the plucking and pipes, head over to the Pavilion (Carey's Lane; 353-21-427-6230; www.pavilioncork.com), a hot spot of recent prominence as both a mellow lounge with good beats downstairs and the choice venue for live acts and club nights upstairs.
When he goes downstairs to lunch, he has choices now, beyond the food trucks and cafeterias that were the only options a few years ago.
Just as you don't see many mullets around anymore, in the seventies a full bush was preferred downstairs, and now a Brazilian is the fashionable choice.
Barlow's obsession with her choice of constituents – cardboard, extruded foam and board – continues in the downstairs gallery, with a parade of richly coloured, sculptural objects.
Entrees downstairs run from $28 to $38, but at the bistro they are $10 to $20 for a choice of 16 small plates, and $15 to $32 (steak) for a choice of 13 large plates.
Entrees range from $17 to $34 upstairs while in the downstairs Suds Pub there are $9 burgers and a wealth of other choices up to a $20 fully loaded pizza.
Entrees are $18 to $25 upstairs (lobster is market priced), while in the downstairs Suds Pub there are $9 burgers and a wealth of other choices up to a $21 fully loaded pizza.
Downstairs in the restaurant, the four-course menu is prix fixe, without choices, and it changes every day.
Mr. Tate will also be the chef for the intimate downstairs restaurant, Le Restaurant, to open in mid-October with a $70 to $80 prix fixe menu with no choices that will change every day.
It offers a choice of French food upstairs (five-course menu $42), which looks out over a more international brasserie downstairs (three-course menu $22).
