This low pink bungalow-style building is on a superb elevated site overlooking the sea and across the bay to Courtmacsherry and, as it is open for lunch as well as dinner in summer, it is a very useful place to know about.
Picnic tables overlook a lawn towards the sea, or you can eat inside in a large room with a piano, which has been painted exuberantly in swirling shades of pink, and is put to good use in the evening when one of the staff tinkles the ivories and sings, along with one of the waitresses.
Delicious food includes outstandingly good home-made bread, and menus naturally favour local seafood - lunch dishes are marked up on a blackboard in the bar (another lists wines available by the glass), and might include an excellent Provencal fish soup, or sausage and mash.
Evening dishes depend on ‘whatever the fishermen drop in’, with prime seafood like lobster and brill offered if you’re lucky.
An unusual, informative and evocative wine list is illustrated with labels, and includes a pair of Fairtrade wines and a good choice of half bottles and dessert wines among many treats.
Service is laid-back but efficient and charming.
Seats 80 (outdoors, 30); L daily 12-2.30 (Sun from 12.30), D daily 6-9, L&D a la carte; house wine from €20. Children welcome before 9pm (high chair, childrens menu); toilets wheelchair accessible; pianist in the evening; free broadband wi/fi. Open 7 days in summer, phone for opening times in winter. Closed Jan. MasterCard, Visa, Laser.
