Midleton: Raymond's a must stop on any gastro tour

Raymond’s Restaurant, Distillery Walk, Midleton, Co Cork; tel: [phone], raymonds.ie

ANYONE with an appetite, a credit card with a pulse and a very patient driver — the basic qualifications for this job — anyone who enjoys the idea of a short break built around visits to good restaurants in lovely places could do an awful lot worse than base themselves for a few days in the triangle between Midleton, Dungarvan and, say, Cashel.

Almost surreptitiously — though not quietly — a small battalion of very good restaurants has changed the landscape for anyone interested in something a sliver more adventurous, a sliver less Catholic, than roast meat and two veg boiled and crushed into anonymous bio pulp will find considerable comfort in this Trenchers’ Triangle.