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Cronin's Pub

The Cronin family’s Victorian pub on the harbour front has oodles of character and, with its walls and high shelves crammed with maritime memorabilia, it serves as a sort of unofficial exhibition of local history.

It has always had a good reputation for food, especially seafood, and now there’s an enthusiastic new generation at work here, with Joeleen Cronin front of house and her brother Dennis (who is Ballymaloe-trained) as head chef.

They’re doing a good job with both the bar food and an evening restaurant, The Shore Thing, which is in a narrow high-ceilinged room off a passageway behind the bar.

Tables are set up simply, and the menu is sensibly short; good ingredients, notably seafood, are mainly sourced locally, cooking is good and presentation unfussy.

The popular lunchtime bar menu is more extensive and includes quite a lot of pub food staples as well as seafood.

Ample free parking in public carpark across the road.

Restaurant seats 35; children welcome; L&D Tue-Sat, 12-2.45pm & 6-9pm; house wine €19. Bar food served Mon-Fri, 11.45-2.45pm, Sat, 11.45-3.30pm. Restaurant closed Sun, Mon & Jan. Amex, Diners, MasterCard, Visa, Laser.

Directions:

Straight into village, at car park