Rare

The kitchen is on full display behind large windows, and the chef, who trained in Chennai, cooks through a Tamil Nadu lens: chilli heat, coconut richness, tamarind's sweet-sour pull, all sourced through West Cork. It's a rustic-chic dining room in Kinsale where the chefs deliver the dishes themselves, which sounds like a small thing until it happens. A Michelin Selected restaurant with a strong sense of place, two places at once.

One honor, in evidence: