Restaurant Review: Land to Sea, Dingle

The first weekend in October has assumed sacrosanct status in the culinary calendar, as the Irish food world gathers for the annual Dingle Food Festival and Blas na hÉireann awards, a class of epicurean equinoctial solstice marking the end of the year’s festival circuit with one last blowout in the magical West Kerry town.
The streets are absolutely heaving over what locals call, ‘the best weekend of the year in Dingle,’ and each corner, nook and cranny presents an opportunity to put on the nosebag and, while I still lament the loss of the late, great Idá’s, new arrivals are easing the sting of its departure.