Popular West Cork restaurant to close

The restaurant previously operated as a café, bookshop and a guest house

Pilgrims Restaurant, South Square, Rosscarbery, West Cork. Picture: Denis Scannell

ONE of West Cork’s top restaurants, the Michelin-Guide-approved Pilgrims in Rosscarbery, is to shut its doors on April 2 as the owners say “it’s now time to make life sustainable for us rearing a small family.” 

Owners chef Mark Jennings and Sadie Pearce opened their top-rated village restaurant eight years ago on South Square in Rosscarbery, keeping the name Pilgrims over the door of the landlord-owned building which has also been a café, a bookshop and a guest house in the past.