Strandhill on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast may not have quite the same ring to it as Hawaii’s Pipeline or Australia’s Gold Coast or even South Africa’s Jeffreys Beach, but it was the surf and sunsets that attracted cafe owners and cookbook authors Myles and Jane Lamberth to this part of the County Sligo seashore.
South African-born chef Myles was working at the prestigious Headland Hotel on Cornwall’s Fistal Beach when he met Jane, “this mad Irish girl with wild blonde hair”, who was working front of house. They bonded over his quirky glasses and their mutual passion for fine food, the beach, snowboarding and surfing. “I thought Myles was the manager [he wasn’t], as he was always telling me to stop talking,” Jane recalls. “Little did he know he’d be spending the rest of his life saying that to me.”
