A new cafe serving meals made from food rescued from the bin has opened in the UK.

A recovery in trade in one of Cork’s city centre’s under-performing streets — Academy Street — is heralded with the opening this weekend of a new restaurant, CoqBull, which replaces hospitality supremo Jay Bourke’s long-established Cafe Bar Deli.

A turnaround in the fortunes and occupancy levels of Cork city’s premier retail boulevard Patrick Street is predicted in the next year, with significant national international brand names set to arrive and take significant floor space.

TOMORROW is the tender date for the sale of Cork City’s Victoria Hotel on St Patrick’s Street and Cook Street, with well over a half dozen parties expected to make offers on the historic 33-bed city hotel.

FOURTEEN food service jobs come on stream in two separate restaurant openings in Cork’s Mahon Point shopping centre and in its nearby retail park this week.

Restaurant chain Nandos will create 28 new jobs in Cork when it opens its doors next week.

ABOUT 450 jobs are to be created this year when two new retail and leisure areas are opened in Dundrum’s Town Centre in Dublin.

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