The Secret Garden in Cork

Lucky to get a single star, why is there no zero star option? Bouncers are unnecessarily aggressive and the female bouncers are very touchy with girls. Avoid the cloakroom if you’ve a nice garment as they will try to keep it. Would recommend as you won’t feel safe here as a man or a woman

Do not go here, big guy with a beard and long hair tied into a masculine ponytail with a small man ego only to turn down people to let in his friends and then after letting them wait for an hour only to say “we’re not letting anyone else in only my regulars”. Guy should probably stop going to McDonalds while watching Roadhouse and start hitting the treadmill before he calls himself a bouncer. Terrible management, in need of a serious upgrade don’t waste your time or money.

No song request. Bad Hs Place !!!

It doesnt even deserve a star!!!!! if I could give it a minus, it would have had the highest score. we wanted to go in last night, and when we showed them our IDs and they saw that we were from Romania, they didnt let us in because "we were too drunk" the club just opened. there is still racism in 2022.

Jack was ballin but also mawlin

ABSOLUTELY BUZZING ON A Wednesday! Stank of cats but look at the state of my friend Jack, madman! Definitely coming back, hope im used to the smell!!

Stuff is rude, unwelcoming, and unprofessional avoid this local

TERRIBLE PERSONAL.El personal, concretamente el portero, fue un homófobo y muy maleducado. No nos dejo entrar sin ningún motivo coherente y a pesar de tener los tickets ya comprados no hubo manera de que el chico razonara.Después de esta experiencia no recomiendo a nadie gastar su dinero y tiempo en un sitio tan nefasto.

TERRIBLE PERSONAL.El portero de la entrada fue HOMÓFOBO y MALEDUCADO.Mis amigas y yo compramos entradas para el sábado noche. Cuando llegamos a la puerta, el portero nos dijo que dos de ellas (noviasno podían entrar por estar “muy borrachas”. Mentira.Intentamos hablar con él, decirle que ya teníamos las entradas compradas y que nuestras amigas estaban bien, no tan borrachas como él decía. Pues decidió que nuestra actitud fue “agresiva” y por tanto nosotras tampoco podíamos entrar.Hablamos también con un superior, y lo mismo, nos dijo que si el portero nos dijo que no, es que no.Nos hemos sentido muy decepcionadas e impotentes, pues no hubo manera de que nos dejase entrar.Ante este tipo de situaciones, tolerancia cero. No recomiendo a nadie ir a un lugar con un personal tan nefasto, con falta de valores e irrespetuoso.Fatal experiencia.

Very overpriced and extremely rude staff on the door

Staff were unprofessional and rude.Terrible damp rotting smell throughout the venue.Definitely AVOID - there are much better places to visit in Cork.

Shocking staff... Management do not care in the slightest. Way too overcrowded and way too many safety hazards. Definatly avoid this place it ruined our night.

Smells awful, besides bouncers the staff have zero training or manners the smell made me feel like vomiting stinky stinky place with stinky bar staff and customers avoid at all costs

It smells so terrible in here, the smell of wet dog hit me like a ton of bricks when I walked through the door and the stink of body odour of patrons made me feel so physically ill that I had to leave, that and the fact I waited for 45 minutes at the bar with not even acknowledgment from the bar staff who were more focused on talking to girls who skipped the queue genuinely the worst experience I’ve ever had at a bar smell aside the staff are so poorly trained and it was a terrible experience avoid at all costs

AVOID including it into your plan for the night if possible, unless you have a booking that seems to be very hard to make.On one occasion we had entered as a walk in at 5 PM only to be told out of nowhere that we have to leave at 6 to allow for book ins to come in, this was not communicated to us at all when we paid for our entry!On another occasion more recently, we queued for almost 2 hours on the back door as we were frequently being told that they would open the doors again by 11:30, well we wasted our time in the cold as one of the rude and arrogant managers came out and told the top of the queue that they are closed, while not even telling the rest of the queue that they are closed which resulted in a massive crowd expected to be left in, COMMUNICATE BETTER WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS AND YOU WILL AVOID ANGRY CROWDS AND DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS THAT WONT RETURN

Terrible experience with the bar staff. In particular a dark haired, girl named Megan. Megan refused to listen to any of our orders, when we 6 shots, she only filled 5. Didn’t make any eye contact, or asked us what we had wanted. She got all our orders wrong. When we tried to tell her Megan blatantly ignored us. She obviously didn’t want to be working there especially on one of the busiest time of the year. This was very obvious in her behaviour and zero customer service. Megan was nothing but bitter and surly. Can’t say the same for other staff as they were all lovely. Such a let down.

Wasn’t too impressed with the food, your only really paying extravagant prices for the music and aesthetic… but the man eoghan who was looking after our table, he absolutely made our night

Craic is 90, lovely drinks.... The only problem is the DJ is too good, we couldnt relax

Blatant false advertising. Paid what we believed was a deposit of 15 euro a head for a table and was told that food was included in the price. None of us had eaten before arriving as we were under the impression that food was to be served. Asked our server could we order and we were told there was no food. Our 75 euro was not refunded or put towards our bill. Very disappointing.

Deceived us into believing we were putting a deposit down on a table and then told us it was a booking fee when we received the bill, that we were not getting our money back. This was €12:50 per head and was unfair on the staff as this extra expense would have discouraged customers to give a tip. I can understand that businesses are trying to make up for the money lost during the pandemic however, the above is only going to damage the business alongside customers’ loyalty in the long run.

Very bad experience during my night out here, staff were extremely unprofessional. We mentioned we were from dublin and we were immediately greeted with a bad reaction and a joke was even made that they will have to watch us to make sure we dont cause trouble, I would not recommend this place to anyone.

The place is very unwelcoming. It is very exclusive. I would not recommend.

Excellent spot..... :)

Le Secret Garden est génial car on vous propose des pièces et ambiances différentes. Des ambiances typiques Irlandaises, malheureusement les soirées en Irlande se finissent très tôt mais le Secret Garden reste un endroit à visiter si vous souhaitez passer une nuit ambiancé dans la ville de Cork.

Night club with good music, friendly poeple, cheap drink ... very gooood

Not a fan of the place! Youre better off sticking down stairs in Reardens where theres more of a buzz. Plus the music is much better down in Reardens.

Such a great night out! Had so much fun

Just look at Chris

Attended a quiz night here, nice bright decor, staff a little bit snappy.

My favorite, beautiful.Problem you cant access to it after 00h30/1h (limited capacity and everyone want to go there)Its covered but you can smoke "inside"