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Ard Bia
In Irish, Ard Bia means 'High Food', which sums up both the 1st-floor location and the cuisine of this café-restaurant. Ard Bia's owner also runs a gallery in town, and this funky dining space showcases contemporary art and local pottery. Blackboard lunch specials are complemented by staples as such beef-and-rosemary burgers; dinner choices run from smoked-paprika lamb to tabouli-and-tofu cake.
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Busker Brownes
Smartly done out in brown-on-brown tones, this suave café-bar does fine pub fare and hangover breakfasts. It's also a prime spot to catch live ragtime jazz.
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Da Tang Noodle House
This place on Middle St does light, healthy Chinese stir-fries and satays in a stylish paper-lantern-lit interior.
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Delight
The name's an understatement: this hole-in-the-wall gourmet food bar is sheer heaven for sandwiches and wraps bursting with sprouts, as well as wheat-grass shots, juices and baked goods including a gooey chocolate pudding to die for. Everything, including the breakfast muesli, is made on the premises. The shop has a roaring takeaway trade, but there's also a clutch of tables.
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Druid Lane Restaurant
Signature main courses at this intimate restaurant include saddle of rabbit, and roasted duck breast. And while starters such as Thai fish cakes with lemon-grass dip have an international flavour, homemade desserts such as Baileys bread-and-butter pudding are as Irish as it gets.
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Finnegan's
Authentic, utterly unpretentious Irish cooking and an equally authentic clientele make this a wonderful spot for comfort food. Finnegan's homemade shepherd's pie comes piping hot from the oven, its traditional Irish stew will stick to your ribs, and desserts include Baileys cheesecake. Full Irish breakfasts are served all day.
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Food 4 Thought
In addition to providing organic and vegetarian sandwiches, savoury scones, and wholesome dishes such as cashew-nut roast and moussaka made with textured vegetable protein, this New Age-y place is great for finding out about energy workshops and yoga classes around town.
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Goya's
As evidenced by the confections on display, the cakes are supreme at Goya's, a Galway treasure hidden on a narrow walkway. Its cool pale blue décor, Segafredo coffee and sweet treats including a towering lemon meringue pie make it a perfect spot to take some time out. Goya's also serves one lunchtime special.
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Kirwan's Lane Creative Cuisine
Kirwan's Lane isn't complacent about its reputation as one of the city's best and most inventive restaurants. The menu combines Irish produce with Asian spices, service is attentive without being intrusive, and the two-storey space is minimalist and elegant. Definitely book ahead.
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Le Journal
Lined with leather-bound books and decorated with painted quotations of the opening phrases of classic novels, this chef-run place is an inexpensive café by day and a très elegant bistro on summer nights.
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McDonagh's
A trip to Galway isn't complete without stopping at McDonagh's. Divided into two parts, with a takeaway counter and a café with long communal wooden tables (great for meeting locals) on one side, and a more upmarket restaurant on the other, Galway's best chipper churns out battered cod, plaice, haddock, whiting and salmon nonstop, all accompanied by homemade tartare sauce.
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Monroe's Pizza Cabin
Galway's best pizza joint. Buy them then take them through to the bar next door.
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Mustard
This exciting new spot serves select wines and inventive dishes such as crispy aromatic duck pizzas with plum sauce, and lentil kofta burgers.
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Oscar's Restaurant
Opening hours can be erratic, but no matter - the flamboyant and fun atmosphere at Oscar's is consistently matched by adventurous cooking, such as seared king scallops with pistachios, and roast rabbit with apricot. Meals are presented with an eye for aesthetics and served with theatrical flair.
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Richard McCabe's Bakery
To pack a beach picnic, head to the bakery of five-time world-champion pastry chef Richard McCabe for crusty fresh bread and sausage rolls.
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