Other restaurants in Ireland
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Queenstown Restaurant
Inside the old train station with the heritage centre, this simple cafe is best right when the doors open and the scones are emerging from the oven, warm and fragrant. Other times the food is fine but akin to what you might have had shipboard in 2nd class.
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Larder Cafe
Set in one of the restored stone buildings in Market Yard, this modern cafe is a popular lunch spot and serves a good selection of soups, sandwiches, cakes, gourmet coffees and fairtrade teas.
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Café Bardeli
With three branches in the city – including a spectacular one in Dublin’s most beloved cafe, Bewley’s of Grafton St – the folks behind Bardeli have hit the nail firmly on the head: great crispy pizzas with imaginative toppings such as spicy lamb and tzatziki, fresh homemade pastas, and salads such as broccoli, feta and chickpea that you’ll dream about for days. All in a buzzing atmosphere at prices that won’t break the bank. No reservations, so prepare to wait on a busy night.
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Roundwood Inn
This 17th-century German-owned house has a gorgeous bar with a snug open fire, in front of which you can sample bar food with a difference: on the menu are dishes such as Hungarian goulash and Irish stew with a German twist. The more-formal restaurant is the best in town, and has earned praise for its hearty, delicious cuisine. The menu favours meat dishes, including seasonal game, Wicklow rack of lamb and a particularly good roast suckling pig. Reservations are required.
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Olde Glen Bar & Restaurant
Authentic down to its original 1700s uneven stone floor, this treasure of a traditional pub in the tiny hamlet of Glen serves a sensational pint. Out the back, its small farmhouse-style restaurant serves outstanding blackboard specials. It doesn’t take reservations and is popular with locals – turn up by 5.30pm to get a table for the 6pm seating, or by 6.30pm for a table at the 7.30pm seating. By the time you leave, you’ll feel like a local yourself.
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Ely Winebar
Scrummy homemade burgers, bangers and mash, and wild smoked-salmon salad are some of the meals you’ll find in this basement restaurant. Dishes are prepared with organic and free-range produce from the owner’s family farm in County Clare, so you can rest assured of the quality. There’s a large wine list to choose from, with over 70 sold by the glass. The original is in Ely Place, but we prefer the two newer branches on either side of the Liffey.
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Sha-Roe Bistro
Sha-Roe Bistro, tucked inside an 18th-century building, serves standout contemporary cuisine like potato, parmesan and herb gnocchi with roast butternut squash, followed by desserts like a fig tarte tatin with toffee ice cream, or Irish cheeses with rhubarb chutney and homemade crackers. The menu lists local suppliers who provide ingredients fresh from the surrounding orchards and farms. Book at least two weeks ahead.
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Gillie’s Bar
The rustic atmosphere of the original Gillie’s Bar, set in the former stables, has been retained with bare stone walls, huge timber beams, a log fire and cosy sofas, but it has been extended into a spectacular, high-roofed barn with a huge, central free-standing chimney and a monumental staircase framed by crouching sphinxes – all in all, a pretty jaw-dropping setting for some of the fanciest pub grub in Ireland.
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Sheridans on the Docks
From the talented team behind Sheridans Cheesemongers comes this excellent restaurant in a vintage stone building overlooking a harbour. The menu changes regularly, but dishes, such as cockle beignets, wild sea bass with purple sprouted broccoli and baked rhubarb, celebrate the best of locally produced foods. In winter (October to April) get a table by the fireplace. Bar No 8 downstairs is a welcoming pub.
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Poet’s Rest
Fairtrade and organic foods top the bill at the Poet’s Rest, a deceptively simple little place serving up stylish, modern cuisine in relaxed surroundings. Although succulent meat and fish dishes feature strongly on the menu, there’s plenty of choice for vegetarians, and a mouth-watering array of desserts from the adjoining deli-patisserie – a great spot to pick up the makings for a gourmet picnic.
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Table Bistro
This stylish cafe-bistro is decked out in identikit Northern Ireland restaurant decor of blonde wood with leather chairs in shades of chocolate and cream. It dishes up big breakfasts (till 11.30am), light lunches (gourmet sandwiches, Caesar salad, pasta carbonara) and delicious dinners from a menu that ranges from steak and chips to prawn and shellfish tagliatelle with cream and white wine sauce.
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Copper
A stalwart of Warrenpoint’s fine-dining scene, Copper is an elegant, white-linen-tablecloth kind of restaurant that combines food sourced from local farms and fish bought from the quayside at Kilkeel with Mediterranean and Asian flavours. There’s a separate vegetarian menu (mains £12.50) with inventive dishes such as sweet-potato pancake with shiitake mushrooms, scallions and black bean sauce.
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Ballymore Inn
The richly tiled interior at the Ballymore Inn is warmed by small fireplaces, which flicker against the wicker and leather seating. The food ranges from pizza to amazing steaks. You can opt for a more formal experience in the dining room at lunch or dinner or settle back in the large pub, where pub food is served all day. Food is sourced from a stellar cast of local suppliers.
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Organic Life/Marc Michel
This superb organic restaurant attached to the Organic Life shop in the town of Kilpedder is about 2km south of the Greystones turnoff on the N11. All of the vegetables are grown in the fields surrounding you (Ireland’s first organically certified farm), while the beef served in the superb burger is bought from a local cattle rancher. The sole pity is that it’s only open for lunch.
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Hungry Monk
An excellent 1st-floor restaurant on Greystones’ main street. The blackboard specials are the real treat, with dishes like suckling pig with prune and apricot stuffing to complement the fixed menu’s classic choices – fresh seafood, Wicklow rack of lamb, bangers ’n’ mash and so forth. This is one of the better places to get a bite along the whole of the Wicklow coast.
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Johnnie Fox
Busloads of tourists fill the place nightly throughout the summer, mostly for the knees-up, faux-Irish floorshow of music and dancing. But there’s nothing contrived about the seafood, which is so damn good we’d happily sit through yet another chorus of Danny Boy and even consider joining in the jig. The pub is 3km northwest of Enniskerry in Glencullen.
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Hillside Bar & Restaurant
This is a homely pub serving real ale (and mulled wine beside the fireplace in winter), with live jazz Sunday evenings and a dinky wee beer garden in a cobbled courtyard out the back. The upstairs restaurant offers formal dining, with crisp white table linen and sparkling crystal, and a menu offering dishes such as lobster tart, roast quail, venison and steak.
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Restaurant
The restaurant at Avoca Handweavers is huge and always busy. It puts a premium on sourcing the very best ingredients for its dishes. It is best known for its beef-and-Guinness casserole, but vegetarians are very well catered for as well. Many of the recipes are available in the two volumes of the Avoca Cookbook, both on sale for €45 for two.
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Poppies Country Cooking
If the service wasn’t so slow and the organisation so frustratingly haphazard, this pokey little cafe on the main square would be one of the best spots in Wicklow. The food – when you finally get a chance to eat it – is sensational: wholesome salads, filling sandwiches on doorstop-cut bread and award-winning ice cream will leave you plenty satisfied.
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Upstairs@Joe’s
This new restaurant above McCollams pub prides itself on promoting local produce, with dishes such as seafood chowder with wheaten bread, medallions of Irish beef with Béarnaise sauce, and lamb chops with parsnip puree and rosemary jus – all sourced within County Antrim. Actor Liam Neeson has eaten here during visits to his home town of Ballymena.
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E Kirby 66
An old neighbourhood pub has been reborn and has a welcoming dinner menu of Italian classics. It’s great for when you want to say no to mussels and say yes to spaghetti and meatballs. There’s excellent pizza and, in a nod to local tradition, fine seafood ravioli. By day this charmer is good for a coffee and a pause along the gentrifying street.
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Quay 26
Seafood is the main item on the menu at this minimalist, modern restaurant with a view across the marina to the cliffs of Fair Head – mussels in white wine and garlic, grilled sea bream, and smoked haddock with bacon, chive and cheese mash. There’s also Irish venison, lamb shank, and roast veggie linguini for those who don’t fancy the fish.
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Crotty’s
The most atmospheric spot on the Clare side of the water, Crotty’s has picnic tables outside that you won’t want to leave, especially on long summer nights. Inside it could be the model for the perfect old pub anywhere (and it’s the real deal). Fish and chips and burgers rise above the norm, and the purveyors of the foods are listed.
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Mourne Seafood Bar
Set in a wood-panelled Victorian house with local art brightening the walls, Mourne Seafood Bar is a friendly and informal fishmonger-cum-restaurant. As well as a choice of local oysters served five different ways, the menu includes seafood chowder, crab, langoustines and daily fish specials, all sourced locally.
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The Oarsman
It may look like a pub from the outside, but The Oarsman serves restaurant-quality food in relaxed, informal surroundings. The menu ranges from traditional Irish with a contemporary twist to Asian-inspired dishes, cooked equally well. Snacks and bar food are served between lunch and dinner, and they pull a good pint, too.
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