Restaurants in Kilkenny City
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Rinuccini
Follow a short flight of steps down to a candlelit basement to bliss out on Antonio Cavaliere’s classical Italian cuisine, including his sublime Spaghetti al Astice – lobster tossed with pasta, shallots, cream, brandy and black truffle, doused with fresh parmesan, and served in the shell. The restaurant’s named for Giovanni Rinuccini, a Florentine noble who was appointed papal nuncio to Kilkenny in 1650.
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Edward Langton’s
The restaurant within this enormous, snazzy pub seems able to seat much of the town (certainly most everybody’s here for Sunday lunch). The food is quality trad Irish: never-ending bowls of boiled potatoes and desserts like toffee and brown bread pudding with hot butterscotch sauce. Regular dinner-and-show specials for around €40 are popular with locals and tourists alike.
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Pordylos
You'll feel you've slipped into a French country home as you enter from shadowy Butter Slip. The seafood comes from Dunmore East and the excellent meats are sourced locally. Good French vintages soon loosen the spirits and you'll feel in the midst of a highly successful dinner party.
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Campagne
Chef Garrett Byrne has returned home from the capital’s Michelin-starred Chapter One restaurant to open this bold, stylish new restaurant in his native Kilkenny. Dubliners now commute to feast on specialities like chestnut and pheasant soup, and goose terrine with apple marmalade.
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Cafe Sol
Leisurely lunches stretch until 5pm at this cafe–restaurant. Local produce includes Kilkenny beef and Carlow free-range chicken, but vegetarians aren’t an afterthought, with choices like oven-baked goat’s cheese with mango and plum chutney, and pecan, vegetable and hazelnut roast.
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Marble City Bar
This stylishly mod bar manages to stand out. Usual bar standards like sausage & mash and fish & chips are elevated above the norm through the use of excellent ingredients. A lower-level café facing St Kieran's St has breakfasts, coffees and outdoor tables.
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Two Dames
Organic porridge, granola with organic yoghurt and ‘CYO’ (create your own) sandwiches that might feature brie, cranberry, grape and crispy bacon are just a few of the reasons locals squeeze into this hole-in-the-wall cafe.
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Lautrec’s Brasserie
Romantics can hold hands at the tiny tables in the tiny dining room and partake of the disproportionate wine selections at this seductive, rose-coloured French bistro. It’s spawned a second restaurant in Carlow town.
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Fléva
There’s a postmodern sense of experimentation at this art-filled restaurant. Locally sourced produce is complemented by flavoursome accompaniments like wholegrain mustard, minted peas and celeriac purée.
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The Pantry
Break soda bread (well at least butter it up) and sip a range of coffees at this old-fashioned bakery and tearoom. Those filling, hot meals of your youth are here ready and waiting.
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Gourmet Store
In this crowded little deli, takeaway sandwiches are assembled from choice, imported meats and cheeses (plus a few top-notch locals).
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Chez Pierre
This sunny-sweet French spot does great tartines (open-faced sandwiches), soups and sweets plus blackboard specials.
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