'We always knew we’d return': Couple behind Pilgrim's on their next West Cork venture

Pilgrim's progress: Sarah-Jane Pearce and Mark Jennings share details on their new West Cork restaurant and store

Mark Jennings formerly of Pilgrim's restaurant, Rosscarbery, pictured during the Waterford Festival of Food. Picture: Joleen Cronin

In light of the merciless storm that has been battering the Irish hospitality sector in recent years, any chink of light through the clouds is to be greatly welcomed. It doesn’t get much brighter than the news that Mark Jennings and Sadie Pearce, the couple behind the late, lamented Pilgrim’s Restaurant, in Rosscarbery, are set to return with a new restaurant.

They will be opening in a former antiques/secondhand shop in Leap, a few miles down the road from their original West Cork establishment.