Restaurant Review: The Pepperstack, Co Cork

The Pepperstack Bistro at Rosie’s Bar in Lower Aghada, Co Cork is a bistro like Paul O’Connell is a rugby player, like Graham Norton is an entertainer. 

It, and they, fit the bill and more than match the expectations around their promise.

So much so that it may be timely, or at least as good a time as any, to propose to whichever quango — there’s bound to be at least four, each serviced by superannuated translators — responsible for anointing the new words needed to sustain a minority language like Irish, that bistros shake off the the feyness of their French roots. I suggest they become more Irish than the full Irish breakfast and be given a new, more robust name, to recognise this entirely welcome cultural imperialism.