Two new ‘dishes’ on menu

A NEW restaurant, Palmento, is opening in Cork City’s Douglas this weekend, as one of Kinsale’s best-known restaurants, Crackpots, is for sale as a 2015 trading opportunity. Crackpots is offered as a going concern for €700,000.

Palmento, an Italian restaurant, is by Barry’s pub, in Douglas village, in the revamped, former Cashmans bookmakers building on Church Street. Palmento is a follow-on from the acclaimed, family-run, three-year-old La Tana on the city’s venerable Barrack Street. The new suburban restaurant/take-away will specialise in Neapolitan fare and fine pizzas, wines and craft beers.

Owner, Elio Tavolieri, has just shipped over an enormous ‘100% Italian’ pizza oven from Naples, which necessitated taking down the building’s front wall to get it in.