Restaurant Review: Max’s, Kinsale, Co Cork

WHEN the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali paraded his pet lobster along the Rue de Rivoli in Paris he must have seemed as exotic as anything — or anyone — led along the promenade in Kinsale.

On a weekday anyway.

That, at various stages in his utterly bizarre life, Dali kept an anteater as a pet and, at another time an ocelot he called Babou, one he brought nearly everywhere on a leash, usually wearing a diamond-studded collar, suggests that the painter knew how to make an impact in even the most urbane, jaded setting.