?‘I thought I was going to have an easy Sunday, but you threw us a curveball,” said chef Keith Boyle of The Bridge House restaurant in Kilkenny, which is part of, but separate to, the River Court Hotel. “You’re our very first walk-ins.” I’d actually had a reservation for a couple of weeks hence, but driving back to Dublin from East Cork on a Sunday morning with a friend, I remembered they did lunch at the weekends and thought we’d roll up and try our luck.