Restaurant review: The Salt Yard, Kilkenny

It’s a chilly St Patrick’s weekend in Kilkenny, and the medieval city is throbbing to the sound of uileann pipes, concertinas, tin whistles, bodhráns, and enough jigs’n’reels to whirl you to the end of time and back again.

One of Ireland’s truly beautiful spots to visit, Kilkenny has narrow, winding streets by the dozen and we wander in and out as lunchtime approaches.

We walk along Friary Street and standing outside Rafter Dempsey’s pub, we glance across the street, and can’t help but notice a group of people looking nice and warm inside the Salt Yard — a tapas restaurant open less than a year.