Restaurant Review: Bia Rebel Ramen @ Levi’s Corner House, Ballydehob

Roughly a decade ago, the pretty village of Ballydehob, in West Cork, featured in a national broadsheet article as a poster child for the rural decline, further accelerated by the then-raging recessionary storm.

Ten years on, rural decline is a live issue, State policy consisting of little beyond faux-concerned hand-wringing and fatalistic resigned shrugging of shoulders, yet Ballydehob is now the Comeback Kid, in the full flush of a revival that puts Lazarus forever in the hapenny place, and it is very much driven by the hospitality sector.