WEST Cork’s Rosscarbery has a hot new show on the road — the man behind one of West Cork’s highest-rated fish and chips businesses has taken over the former Landmark restaurant and cafe premises on the N71 at Tanyard Lane.
The family’s new sitdown venture, Nighthawks, soft-opened just last weekend, with takeaway and ‘click and collect’. Mr Hawkins has just closed his award-garlanded previous takeaway outlet by Spar, and previously had overseen food ventures in Clonakilty and Timoleague for other operators.
Built in the 1980s, it’s a C2-BER stamped, and brick-faced 2,628 sq ft three-storey home, on a third of an acre landscaped sloping site that manages to fit in up to seven bedrooms, under a pressed metal or zinc roof, mono-pitch, with all-brick external leaf and walls have been pumped with insulation.
He says there’s up to seven bedrooms in the two/three-storey home “presented in pristine condition, with high-quality fixtures and fittings, insulated to a high standard and has a layout to make the most of the stunning views”.
It has day/living rooms and kitchen at the lower ground level, a mid-level with four double bedrooms (one en suite) and main bathroom and a top floor with three en suite bedrooms, the principal one impressively double aspect.
The Burgatia townland is above a walking loop around the lagoon by Rosscarbery and “the location is both idyllic and convenient, you can stroll out for a beach walk, pier walk, swim, to the pubs, shops and school… and get a catch at the new Nighthawks too, ” says Mr Kelly.