Restaurant review: Good Things, Skibbereen, Cork

Carmel Somers’ new venture houses a welcoming café on the ground floor; upstairs, a cookery school by day hosts the nighttime restaurant. 

Sheep’s Head is one of Ireland’s lesser-hymned peninsulas and a selfish part of me would like it to remain so for it is one of my favourite places on earth: lush, green, glorious on the protected Dunmanus Bay side; wind-blasted, rocky, bare, a Bond villain’s lair-in-waiting on the exposed Bantry Bay side.

Carmel Somers returned to Ireland and spent several years running her Good Things Café and Cookery School in Durrus.