Restaurant review: The Field Kitchen, Ballycotton & Quinlan's Seafood Bar, Cork

This week Joe McNamee dined in both The Field Kitchen at The Blackbird, Ballycotton and Quinlan’s Seafood Bar, 14, Princes St, Cork. Here are his thoughts.

Each year, when Michelin unveil their latest round of stars, it inevitably triggers a kerfuffle but if you want to start a serious brawl around these parts then nail colours to the mast and pronounce a particular fish and chip shop to be superior to all competitors.

Once, this argument was easily ended on Leeside with mention of Kiely’s, on Maylor St, but it closed in 2007 after 67 years in business. (New proprietors in the same premises trading under the Kiely brand are but a very pale imitation of the original.)