Cork: Vive la France!

La Bigoudenne, 28 MacCurtain Street, Fermoy, Co Cork; Tel: [phone].

WHEN you phone to make a booking at a French restaurant and a Christine Lagarde sound-alike takes your call then it’s natural to feel just that little bit more optimistic. The accent promises at least a certain authenticity.

When the booking is made — unknowingly — for Bastille Day on July 14 it would seem that we got all of our cockerels in a row and that the gods gastronomique had blessed our adventure. And so, gladly, it transpired.