The road to West Cork via Damascus for two restaurateurs

Restaurateurs Mohamad Alsaadi and Abed Alkafe Saad Alah were neighbours growing up, living in such close proximity in Damascus that, after a day playing outside, they could then hear each other knocking on the bedroom walls.
This year, the pair succeeded in finally achieving a childhood dream — opening their own restaurant, Bayleaf Bistro in Bandon. As their present-day neighbours might put it: it’s far from that they were reared.