Restaurant review: Burnt - Princes St, Cork

FOR many Corkonians of a certain vintage, pizza was ‘born’ in the very early ’80s, in Pizzaland on Patrick St, arriving near-simultaneously with next-door neighbour Burgerland, both ‘game-changers’ in the city’s fast-food dining culture.

Featuring an all-you-can-eat salad buffet whose prosaic offerings eventually ground down all but the most primal of appetites, pizzas themselves were ‘deep dish’, industrial mozzarella and an especially grim tomato sauce reeking of dried herbs, yet all seemed wondrous to us ignorant natives, then still believing Easi Singles cheese slices to be an actual foodstuff.