Cork: Living the high life in El Vino

El Vino, The Elysian,

El Vino is a nice place to idle away an evening and it has cheery, helpful staff, which is always a plus, but never guaranteed. Picture: Denis Minihane

THE restaurant El Vino is pinned under the gargantuan Elysian Towers, just as I imagine dinosaur eggs might have nestled under their mammoth, scaly mothers — glazed like skyscrapers — hundreds of millions years ago.