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The Cottage Bistro

Aidan and Marian McAlpin’s neat cottagey restaurant is spick and span and the style is pleasingly simple, with a small bar area and plain, handsomely-laid tables softened by warm lighting and fresh flowers.

Freshly baked brown bread and iced water are served promptly, along with attractive hand written menus that offer plenty of choice, including steaks, chicken and a tempting speciality vegetarian shepherd’s pie; but local seafood is the speciality, and some dishes – a smoked salmon salad, for example, and a hot dish of prawns in garlic, coriander & chilli butter – are offered as either starters or main courses.

What you get here is Marian McAlpin’s sound home cooking, simply presented - and prices are reasonable, especially for seafood, including an excellent Seafood Platter which could include ten different fish and shellfish and is good value at about €24.

An interesting, informative and well-priced wine list includes unusual house wines and an equally carefully selected choice of half bottles.

Seats 45 (+10 outside); children welcome before 7pm; reservations required; toilets wheelchair accessible. D Tue-Sat, 6-9.30. A la carte. House wine €19. SC discretionary. Closed Sun, Mon, last week Sept, all Jan. Amex, MasterCard, Visa, Laser.

Directions:

7 miles east of Waterford city; in village, above the harbour.