Kinsale’s deserved fine food reputation

Joe McNamee hears why Kinsale's world famous food businesses are coping with Covid-19
Kinsale’s deserved fine food reputation
Sebastien Perey outside the Cosy Café in Kinsale. Picture Dan Linehan

Having led Irish food tourism from near enough the front for some four decades, Kinsale in the weeks leading up to the reopening of the Irish hospitality sector on June 29, was akin to watching a thoroughbred quivering and twitching in the stalls, waiting to explode into action at the starter’s gun.

As the cafes and restaurants readied premises in accordance with new HSE guidelines, revised parking plans were implemented, certain thoroughfares pedestrianised, allowing for al fresco seating to replace seats lost inside to social distancing.

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