This attractive and well-managed family-run restaurant in Clifden offers efficient, welcoming service and very agreeably stylish “good home cooking” all day, every day throughout a long season - and they have been doing so, with admirable consistency, since 1991.
An all-day menu offers a wide range of lightish fare - everything from sandwiches and wraps to seafood chowder; the international flavours are there but how refreshing it is to find old friends like deep-fried Gubbeen cheese and bacon & cabbage there amongst the home-made spicy fish cakes and fresh crab salad with home-made brown bread.
There’s some overlap on to an à la carte evening menu, which offers a judicious selection from the snack menu but the choice is much wider and includes half a dozen appealing meat and poultry dishes and a vegetarian dish of the day as well as eight or nine seafood dishes and a choice of main course salads.
This is a very fair place, offering honest food at honest prices – and, in the Guide’s recent experience, it is better than ever, the food really delicious and service outstanding.
Seats 70; Open daily, 12-10; set 3 course D about €27.50; also á la carte. House wine from about €18.50. Not suitable for children after 6 pm; air conditioning. Closed Nov-Feb. Amex, Diners, MasterCard, Visa, Laser.
