Restaurant review: Greene’s Restaurant, Cork

THERE’S a tense scene in the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans where a waterfall becomes a central if not dominant character for a few decisive scenes. A young Daniel-Day Lewis — bristling like a landmine with charisma, so smouldering and indefatigable that he makes Sunday nights’ Lazarus Poldark look like a pasty also-ran in an under-12 Feis competition — plays the rescuing angel Hawkeye.

He leads the small, desperate group he is trying to get to a safe haven before they fall into the hands of murderous Hurons, into a secret cave curtained from prying eyes by a waterfall … but it would be a pity to say more, it might ruin a classic story for those who have yet to enjoy it, albeit one from another, buckskin time.

We — DW as ever — shared our night at Greene’s Restaurant with a smaller waterfall, one that topples down a city centre cliff-face just outside the buzzing dining room. It’s a feature money could hardly buy, well not outside Las Vegas anyway.