Trimming off the fat
“It should be fun,” says the man who prefers his own food simple and whose favourite meal in the past year was cooked on a West Cork beach. “My young fellow, Andrew, caught some mackerel and we smoked them on the beach on Sherkin Island.”
Dubliner Clarke, whose culinary career started with “washing pots and pans” in Man Friday Restaurant in Kinsale, opened l’Ecrivain Restaurant with wife Sallyanne 23 years ago — and it’s still winning accolades. “It’s great when a mature restaurant wins awards. We have a lot of young people working there and that gives great energy,” says the 54-year-old father of two.
