Several new Cork restaurants, as well as the relaunch of one of the city’s best, the Club Brasserie, are lining up around the Parnell Place/Lapps Quay/City Hall nexus.

Cork city’s bar and restaurant scene steps up a gear this month with the soft opening of the large-scale, 8,400 sq ft Tequila Jack’s at City Quarter, facing One Albert Quay, and the recreated Oyster Tavern also aims for a soft opening by the weekend, at the redeveloped Capitol complex off St Patrick’s St.