Restaurant review: The open fire cooking at Mister S is better than ever

Mister S delivers a red hot lesson in cooking over fire

Visiting Mister S on a recent Tuesday, the restaurant was fully booked

As long as we have been human, or nearly human, we have cooked over fire. Homo Erectus was barbecuing around 780,000 years ago and as our ancestors sat around the fire gnawing on bones, they told stories; this led to language and civilisation itself. This is my theory anyway.

Cooking over fire is the most elemental form of cooking and if we had weather like they do in Africa, the southern US, Australia or Brazil, then we would do it far more. Thank goodness then for the likes of Mister S and Elbow Lane in Cork who do it for us.