Seafood Paradise Ireland

When Tony Davidson and Lina Reppert were on vacation in Downings on the north coast of Ireland a few years ago, they noticed that a small house with a sensational view of Sheephaven Bay stood empty next to the local pub. "We had long dreamed of opening a fish restaurant here in the village," says the chef, "so we asked the owner of the pub if he would rent us the cottage and he agreed." Irishman Davidson had previously lived and worked in Sweden, where he also met his Swedish partner - and so they named the restaurant Fisk, Swedish for fish.