Restaurant review: Paradiso At Home felt just like being out

Denis Cotter hands over a takeaway order to customer Pascal Rossignol, from the window of Cafe Paradiso, Lancaster Quay, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins
It’s Saturday night and we’re sizzling. Current Wife is dolled up to the nines and I’ve busted out the party cologne. It may be Lockdown 2.0 but we’re off ‘out to a restaurant’ for the first date since quarter past forever and are quite giddy with excitement.
The Progeny have been fed, watered and then banished to the darkest corners of the universe, fully girded with parental credit card details and all restrictions removed from their electronic babysitters. Not quite, but if that’s what it took, well...