Streets of Cork city set for a feeding frenzy

If there’s blood on the streets of Cork city with its recent wave of new restaurants and bars opening for business, there’s a quarter-cut of the city that may well have a roll to play. It’s McCurtain Street.

Already home to two dozen cafes, bars, take-aways, restaurants, as well as the Metropole Hotel, the one-way street gets two new eating houses, side-by-side, and equally aimed at carnivores, this month.

The first, Bad Boy’s BBQ, opened Friday last week in a blaze of oak smoke and scent from a 1,500kg wood-burning BBQ smoker, next to Gallagher’s Pub.