Restaurant review: Kinsale is so lucky to have a dining experience like Rare

Rare dazzles with culinary treasures

Rare Restaurant, Kinsale. Picture: Miki Barlok

In my early 20s when I first developed an obsessional interest in food, the word Kinsale conjured up exoticism and fine dining, a world of lobsters, oysters, and béarnaise sauce. There have always been good restaurants in Kinsale and while there was a less interesting period in the late 1990s, Kinsale is very much back on top now with so many places to talk about that I’d have to beg for a second page for this review.

Rare is open a couple of years now but has recently been included in a certain red food guide so it was about time I visited.