Commercial property: Restaurant openings a sign of a 'full bellied' recovery?

Like any good army, the Irish economy is marching back to full-bellied recovery on its stomach with up to a half-dozen new restaurants flooding into one section of Cork city alone. 

They’re clustered around UCC, which seems to be the filling in the middle of this ‘sandwich’ of new offers dominated by convenience and ethnic offerings, plus a Rachel Allen-branded new ‘proper’ restaurant, Rachel’s, in Courthouse Chambers.

Opened just yesterday at Cork’s Dennehys Cross, west of the UCC campus, was the second Irish branch outlet of Mexican/burrito chain Zambrero, founded in 2005 in Australia and now expanding into Europe with 120 restaurant worldwide.