Restaurant Review: The Spitjack Rotisserie Brasserie Restaurant, Cork

The Spitjack Rotisserie Brasserie Restaurant, 34 Washington Street, Cork

SOMETHING is happening on Washington Street, between the Courthouse and Grand Parade.

For years, that ‘strip’ has been a nocturnal reservation for local young folk, marking a rite of passage as they make their first social forays into town. It is especially popular with students and on some evenings, traffic near grinds to a halt as the intellectual vanguard of Ireland’s future stagger between hostelries, Safe Cross Code, a lesson long forgotten. Such youthful ‘exuberance’ eventually requires soakage but, other than one very splendid local institution, The Liberty Grill, choice has been limited to an alarming rash of fast food outlets. Recently, however, a couple of new arrivals mark an elevation in tone.