Cork: Simply the best

Fishy Fishy, Crowley’s Quay, Kinsale, Co Cork; tel: [phone]; www.fishyfishy.ie

FISHY FISHY is one of the most popular restaurants along the south coast and despite our regrettable habit of building someone — or something — up just to knock them down the great majority, probably a higher proportion than any other Irish restaurant, of online reviews reflect that.

Many are effusive, some almost ecstatic. Many are, and this means far more than may be immediately apparent, signed by the authors. At a time when everyone involved in restaurants or hotels dreads how the online bile of an anonymous assassin might discourage customers, this edge is not to be sniffed at, especially in a high-traffic tourist town.