Restaurant Review - Léa’s at The Glucksman
Wednesday 14 August 2024
Many art galleries and museums around the country offer cafes to service the needs of tourists, visitors, students and local residents, and for the most part, they’re either operated by catering companies or small independent operators. Some good, some bad. However, while all are open to the general public, is there the notion, as somebody said to me recently, that they are slightly elitist venues attracting not only the culture vultures, but those wishing to be perceived as arty farty and intelligent, quaffing their coffees and sambos in a socially suitable place — whilst also bitching oh so politely to one another about the prices?
On a trip to Cork recently with a couple of friends, we visited Léa’s at The Glucksman, the contemporary art gallery at University College Cork, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in October. It’s named after one of its founding donors, the American financier and philanthropist Lewis Glucksman who, with his wife Loretta Brennan Glucksman, had a great love for Ireland. He subsequently died at his home in Cobh in 2006.
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First Published In The Sunday Independent