Tastes of a seaside summer

Surfers Jane and Myles Lamberth followed a romantic dream to leave everything behind and live near the waves. These recipes from their restaurant, Shells Café in Strandhill, Co Sligo, will have you feeling beachy keen, writes Gillian Nelis

Myles and Jane Lamberth at Shells Café and Little Shop, Strandhill, Co Sligo Pic: James Connolly

I’d never really experienced that desire that many people have to up sticks, leave the rat race behind and move to the coast - until I visited Strandhill. Just one day spent in this Sligo seaside village was enough to trigger fantasies of a new life involving daily walks along the Atlantic shore, seaweed baths in Voya and gorgeous food in Shells.

It was a dream of living by the sea that brought ...