Restaurant review: Annie’s Bar and Restaurant, Cork

DESPITE the dreadful impositions of the zeitgeist, the wretched panini has yet to usurp our national dish — the toasted special sandwich, the mid-day cousin of the breakfast roll — in the hearts of True Gaels.

Annie’s Bar and Restaurant, 89 Sunday’s Well Road, Cork; tel: [phone]; www.annies.ie

This heroic stamp of an Irishman, far better than anything contrived by Percy French or marked out of a game by Thade Quill, may be spiralling towards red-list rarity but it is a mark of the genus’ endurance that in the face of relentless attack from video referees, dieticians and wans with clipboards mother-henning around the site/farmyard/factory floor in high-viz jackets that there are still far more Gasping Paddies than Gastro Pubs in Ireland.