Restaurant Review: Bastion, Junction of Market St & Main St, Kinsale

Like many a city-dwelling Corkonian, I have sometimes been guilty of overlooking Kinsale, even as travellers from further afield rightly gush over the charms of this seaside tourism Mecca, writes Joe McNamee.

Perhaps it is a failure to see clearly what is right under the nose; perhaps, a case of growing jaded with the overly familiar; perhaps, it is even excessively parochial Leeside zeal frowning on attempts by near-neighbours to dare shine with anything approaching the luminescence of the Real Capital?

Who cares, it is a sin for which I gladly atone, particularly, on fine evenings such as this, in a rare summer, full of them.