Restaurant review: UpDown BBQ Grill Restaurant

Perhaps it was last year’s broaching of the summit, hitting 50 and then the subsequent vertiginous tumble down the far slopes and into the ‘Valley of Dotage’ or maybe it was the recent passings of Bowie and Wogan, two great if very differing iconoclasts of a long-gone youthful landscape, but this reviewer appears to have taken rather a nostalgic turn of late.

Having recently reminisced about MacCurtain Street, it’s now time for a skip across the River Lee and a trawl down ‘Pana’, the most venerable of all Cork’s thoroughfares.

It’s amazing how familiarity can blind the eye to the remorseless nature of inexorable change.