Friendly fare on the sandy shores of Dingle

Spillane's is located on the Maharees, a three-kilometre sandy spit to the north of the Dingle peninsula that’s a mecca for surfers and, at least if our experience is anything to go by, for families

Spillane’s in Co Kerry: a place where people ‘minded in carrycots in our kitchen as babies’ now come with their own kids and grandkids Pic: Valerie O’sullivan

Spillane’s

The Maharees, Castlegregory, Co Kerry

066-7139125, spillanesbar.com

Chef: Sammy Khamsa

Were any of you, by any chance, hanging around Castlegregory in 1975? I ask because I’d love to know what the reaction was to the decision by the owners of Spillane’s to start serving homemade burgers.

I know that in my hometown, the appearance of food – hot food at that – in a pub in the 1970s or 1980s would have ...