VIDEO: Cork city restaurant gutted by fire

A popular Cork city centre restaurant has been gutted by fire.

Up to eight diners and 10 staff had to be evacuated from Asian restaurant, Aroi, on Carey’s Lane in the city’s Hugenot Quarter, when a fire broke out in the kitchen area yesterday afternoon just before 12.30pm.

It is believed flames from the grill area in a downstairs kitchen may have flared up into an extractor fan, before being sucked up through the building through ducting.