That’s Zamora: wine-and-food restaurant opens on Academy St

Cork’s Academy Street and its adjacent Huguenot Quarter is coming out of recessionary doldrums — and is becoming a foodie quarter: a slew of new restaurants has arrived, with more to come.

Latest arrival is wine-and-food restaurant, Zamora, just off Patrick Street, opposite the Irish Examiner’s former Art Deco offices and the Opera Lane retail development.

It joins Coqbull restaurant, which opened in the former Cafe Bar Deli, and is run by the crew behind Limerick and Cork’s Cornstore restaurants. New to the quarter, too (with other assorted crepe houses, coffee shops, etc) is Aroi Asian Street Food, on Carey’s Lane (which also has a Limerick Aroi pedigree), in the former Gambini’s premises.