Restaurants in Killarney
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Stone Chat
This secluded restaurant serves traditional and more cosmopolitan dishes, from Kerry lamb to Moroccan-style monkfish, and chicken wrapped in Parma ham. The great vegetarian selection includes spicy fajitas and a tagliatelle featuring coconut cream and chilli essence. Try the grilled salmon with crunchy sauté vegetables.
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Murphy's Ice Cream
The Killarney branch of this superlative Dingle ice cream maker, with wonderfully thick hot chocolates including chilli.
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Gaby's Seafood Restaurant
Gaby's is a refined dining experience for those who want superb seafood served in a traditional manner. Peruse the menu by the fire before drifting past the wine cellar to the low-lit dining room to savour exquisite Gallic dishes such as lobster in cognac and cream. The wine list is long and the advice unerring.
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Mac’s of Main Street
With possibly the latest serving hours of a restaurant in Killarney, Mac’s is a big, buzzy, casual place that sees loads of traffic through the day. The menu isn’t long but features good renditions of standards like shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, and burgers. Pints are poured, there’s wine by the glass, and big booths to sit in; many can’t resist the special sundaes.
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Chapter 40
Popular with Killarney's stylish bounders (and chefs on their nights off), this beautiful dining room is all polished wood and cream leather. Starters like grilled polenta with wild mushrooms are followed by classy mains such as pork Wellington with pea and crab salsa. The wines by the glass show a deft hand in the cellar.
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Vanilla Pod
By day, Gavin Gleeson's gem of a cafe serves dishes like beer-battered salmon and salads such as almond-crusted goats' cheese with raspberry dressing. Dinner, offering mains like maple-glazed pork, is a more upmarket affair.
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Laurels
Tasty but pricey pub grub such as burgers, steaks and pizzas with inventive toppings. Sit in the bar rather than the slightly formal restaurant to enjoy a setting that mixes a traditional feel with good service. Champ (potatoes mashed with spring onions) is a house speciality.
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Treyvaud’s
Michael Treyvaud’s modish restaurant has a strong reputation for subtle dishes that merge trad Irish with seductive European influences. The seafood chowder at lunch is a seductive repast; dinner mains include the best of local lamb and a winsome bacon and cabbage plate.
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Cronin's
One of a cluster of eateries in this area, this long-established, family-run restaurant is popular for breakfasts with all the trimmings, roasts lathered in gravy, and sweet pies with dollops of cream. As the curvy lamps and mirrors suggest, it goes upmarket at night.
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Jam
This charmer of a cafe is a local hideout. Duck down an alley for a changing menu of hot meals, deli items, and coffee and cake. It’s all made with locally sourced produce and there’s a few tables under an awning out front.
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Sceale Eile
This bakery–cafe, with Irish literary memorabilia decorating the walls upstairs, energises Killarney’s workforce with baguettes, bagels, burgers, lasagne and roasts. The big BLT is famous locally; tarts abound.
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Cathleen's Country Kitchen
The place for a breakfast roll, boiled bacon for lunch and no-nonsense service.
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The Smoke House
One of Killarney's newest and busiest ventures, this tiled bistro is the first establishment in Ireland to cook with a Josper (Spanish charcoal oven). Stylish salads include Norwegian king crab; its Kerry surf 'n turf burger – with gambas tails and house-made barbecue sauce – has a local following.
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Lir Café
Food is limited to cakes, biscuits and the real treat, handmade chocolates, including Bailey's truffles. Great coffee, hip atmosphere.
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Farmers Market
Fruit, vegetables, cakes, cheeses and more is sold at Killarney's farmers market, along with crafts. For details of farmers markets throughout County Kerry, visit www.kerryfarmersmarkets.com.
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