Do, please, come in and sit down, 2018! Extend your palm thusly, that Mystic Menu might divine your path over the coming 12 months. As always, this Al-Menu-nac for the year ahead begins with a brief look at predictions delivered in January last year, the hits and the misses.

Galway was the big winner at the Georgina Campbell Awards, taking the top prizes for best restaurant and best seafood restaurant.

A good restaurant does not go unnoticed for long, and the best featured in the Munster regional final of the Irish Restaurant Awards.

THIS intimate, pleasantly claustraphobic restaurant, tucked away almost in a neat fold in the city-centre street’s edifice, is on the Michelin recommended list so the bar is set reasonably high the very moment a booking is made.

DINERS across Cork will be able to help the homeless thanks to a novel fundraising initiative launched yesterday.