Schuck it and see

A RESTAURANT dedicated to fresh seafood has finally been landed for Cork city centre.

Despite the growing profile of fresh Irish seafood, and quality fish restaurants in such towns as Youghal and Kinsale, the city of Cork has been quite slow off the mark up to now.

And, picking the name Oysters for the new venture at the Clarion Hotel on Lapps Quay works on two levels — it smacks of seafood, and it’s also redolent of the famed steak and fish grill The Oyster, which was part of Cork’s food lore for decades in the mid-1900s.