Restaurant review: Coffee worthy of a title at Duke’s

SOME time ago, I reviewed a selection of Cork’s very fine range of independent coffee shops.

Though space restrictions prohibited coverage of the entirety of the thriving local scene, Dukes Coffee Company was to the fore of my initial list, having offered good coffees in the city since first opening on Carey’s Lane, in 2005, a mere caffeinated stroll from the Irish Examiner’s former offices on Academy Street, where my posterior once polished a pew.