Restaurants in County Kerry
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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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Out of the Blue
'No chips', reads the menu of this funky blue-and-yellow, fishing-shack-style restaurant on the waterfront. Despite its rustic surrounds, this is Dingle's best restaurant, with an intense devotion to fresh local seafood; if they don't like the catch, they don't open. Creative dishes change nightly, but might include steamed crab claws in garlic butter or pan-seared scallops flambéed in Calvados. Who needs chips?
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Prego
Prego's breakfast menu is long and varied, and the antidote to the black pudding you've avoided on your B&B plate (the crispy bacon sandwiches are a winner). Other specialities include great-value pizza and pasta.
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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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Genting Thai
It's the real deal here at this little bistro. The menu is actually Thai (without a lot of interloping Chinese dishes) and is both perfectly spiced and often spicy: if your tongue's deadened by Irish cooking, you'll love the many dishes rated with three chillies on the menu.
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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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Restaurant David Norris
Norris' modern façade is uninspiring, but inside the décor is stylish and the menu exciting. Starters such as crisp-fried calamari are terrific. The emphasis is on steaks and shanks, but vegetarians and fish fanciers have delicious options too. A four-course early bird special is available until 19:00 Monday to Friday.
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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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Global Village Restaurant
With the sophisticated feel of a continental bistro, this restaurant offers a fusion of global recipes gathered by the well-travelled owner-chef, whose CD and art collections are, well, global. Seafood is the base for many a dish. The wine list is excellent.
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The Chart House
This low-lying stone building near the roundabout is regarded locally as the place to spoil yourself. Book ahead to ensure you don't miss out on dishes like Blasket Islands lamb, tartlet of wild mushroom and tarragon, turbot, sea bass and skate.
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Lord Baker's
Established as a pub in 1890 by its namesake, this Dingle institution has a cheerful turf fire and a splendid menu that wastes no energy on purple prose. The excellent choice includes brill, salmon and lobster, Kerry lamb, steak and poultry.
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Half Door
Seafood is superbly presented at this dignified, genteel seafood restaurant. Fish and shellfish are delivered daily fresh from the docks; the local prawns and larger crustaceans are especially good here.
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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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PF McCarthy's
Proudly boasting 'no fried food', this mannered spot serves meals well above the pub-grub norm.
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Ashe’s
Owned by a distant relation of Gregory Peck (really, aren’t we all?), this elegantly fronted gastropub serves modern takes on seafood in old-fashioned surrounds. The tempura of pollack with coriander aioli is mighty fine.
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Old Smokehouse
Garrett Bradshaw, the new owner and chef of this stone-fronted building, has a small farm, so – in addition to seafood – meat and poultry also figure on the menu, as does basil, which appears in virtually every dish. Combinations include herb-marinated chargrilled sirloin with tiger prawns. Arrive early to grab a table in the conservatory overlooking the stream.
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Harty's Lounge Bar
Despite its svelte appearance, this modernised Tralee institution serves no-nonsense nosh, but with tagliatelle joining beef and Guinness stew on the menu. It was the birthplace of the Rose of Tralee festival in 1959.
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Woulfe’s Horseshoe Bar
Enjoy the cosiness of the downstairs bar or the upstairs restaurant at this long-established place, which features window gnomes. The menu offers a full range of pub standards including an array of daily roasts.
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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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Chopin's Cafe
Irish-as-it-gets specialities at this cute little red box of a cafe include bacon and cabbage with white sauce and baked cod with tartare sauce, plus homemade beef burgers laced with onions, while international options range from frittatas to lasagnes.
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