Gino’s Cork city
A fond farewell to Winthrop Street pizza joint Gino’s in Cork city, opened in 1990, and announcing their closure quietly last night with a sign in the door.
Affordable fresh pizza and ice-cream made in-house. It seldom gets better.
Closing to make way for a Boojum.
Urban renewal.
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This was a first time introduction to Pizza for a lot of people in Cork. There was a certain amount of cache going to Ginos in the 90s. The original first date heaven. RIP
Boojum. Face stuffers for groups of office lads in bad suit trousers and fleeces.
So very much for you then, M5? :)
Very much the opposite of me.
Those who server me, wear the suits.
:)
Heh! Good man.
Last time I was down in Cork there was a large queue outside the burritos & blues place on paul st. Weird. Do not get the burrito craze.
Btw, did Ginos close because of Boojum or were they closing anyway and Boojum are just taking their place?
It’s hardly a ‘craze’. Some people like burritos. There was a queue outside my local chipper last night, is there a chip craze? There could be an opening for a Lovin Cork. Your epic top 10 crazes will be welcome there
Considering that not that long ago there was virtually none other then azteca on christchurch and now there is multiple Boojums, mutiple Pablo picantes, multiple totecas, burritto and blues, litte ass, mamas revenge, zambrero, samburrito, kchido all selling burrettos, I would call it a trend/craze. What would you call it?
I would call it ‘Irish people finally expanding their tastes and palates and not being afraid of something outside the meat-and-two-veg+chips mentality’
Hipsters are happy
http://www.joe.ie/life-style/great-news-because-cork-is-getting-its-first-boojum/566783
Joe.ie is hipster now?
The replacement of locally owned businesses with international franchises is a Fine Gael wet dream and a consequence of the financial collapse. Internationals could afford to pay over the odds for leases in order to push out local operations, even if it meant running at a loss for a couple of years until the competition was run out. And backing these Internationals are merchant banks who are making a fortune on investing in them.
And who loves the merchant banks? Noonan and his Fine Gael buddies whose mainstay of backers are Dividenders and investors who produce nothing and do nothing except watch their returns roll in.
Boojum may have a branch in Belfast but they’re hardly “international”.
Perhaps you should double the tablets, Tish.
So, it is Fine Gael’s fault that a pizzeria couldn’t sell enough pizzas – but of course! I should have known.
I’m docking points for your failure to link it back to George Soros/satanic dinners, Mr T/Tish.
Never liked Gino’s
But hate seeing local independent operators shut down
The real issue for me is Winthrop Street
Too many food outlets on it
Surely you mean Washington St. There’s an oversupply of (un) licienced fast food outlets. I suppose somebody has to fill the empty spaces.
But Washington Street was never as nice a street as Winthrop Street
Where you could smell Cudmores from the GPO
maybe if you all had actually eaten there once in a while , it wouldnt have to close down
SHOTS FIRED!!
No, it’s all Denis O’Brien’s fault.
Just wait until he’s revealed to be the major shareholder behind Boojums