Restaurant review: Budd's, Ballydehob, Co Cork

Budd’s restaurant has all the potential to become another West Cork institution. 

It doesn’t take much researching online to uncover the now-famous photo of those in attendance on a particular August night in Ballydehob, in 1998, when the Irish chapter of Slow Food Ireland was first founded, a most impressive roster indeed: Ballymaloe’s Myrtle Allen, Darina Allen, fish smoker Sally Barnes (Woodcock Smokery), Gubbeen’s Giana Ferguson and well-known cheesemaker Bill Hogan.

Also pictured is Annie Barry, the chef-proprietor of Annie’s, the once-renowned Ballydehob restaurant where the photo was taken. Oh, and former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald is also in the line-up.