Restaurant Review: Dockland, City Quarter, Lapp’s Quay, Cork

Nearly two decades ago, internationally renowned urban strategist Joe Berridge told a Cork audience in Millennium Hall that any other city in the world would give its eye teeth for access to such prime water frontage, in this, a place often referred to with parochial pride as the ‘Venice of the North’, yet we simply turned our backs on it, writes Joe McNamee.

Berridge’s sentiments appeared to herald a sea change in municipal thinking with two boardwalks added to sites along the River Lee’s South channel in the next few years. One, on South Mall/Grand Parade, has been an unqualified success, especially apparent when multitudes congregate for hardcore ‘balming out’ on a sunny day. The other has yet to take off.