Kay and JJ Mitchell's 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, ... more...
A pleasing new venture by owners Paul Foley and Chef Brian Walsh of Pigeon House fame, the aptly-named Caladh - 'a landing place' in Irish - is a welcoming neighbourhood restaurant featuring top-quality Irish ingredients, creatively prepared.
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Tapping firmly into the zeitgeist, Bear is a hip steak house offering industrial-style décor, low lighting and a no reservations policy. Guests just ‘rock up’ and wait by the door until a table comes free.
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In common ownership with Cabra Castle in Co Cavan, Castle Bellingham in Co Louth and Markree Castle in Sligo (the Corscadden family's Romantic Castle of Ireland group, see entries), this is a very likeable hotel of character with 15th century origins.
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Since bursting onto Dublin’s dining scene in 2006 Saba - meaning 'happy meeting place' in Thai - quickly established itself as a stylish restaurant serving top quality Asian cooking in stylish surroundings and it remains one of the most popular ... more...
Formerly a cobbler’s workshop, Jackie Hoyne’s delightful café enjoys a corner location and it would be hard to pass by the elegant 18th shopfront with its immaculately maintained paintwork and lovely Georgian windows.
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Just down a side street from the City Hall (turn off at Jaeger), this quirky Belfast restaurants formerly a posh menswear shop - and, as they boast, very near to the Northern Bank of robbery fame.
It is the culmination of a dream for Londoner Emma Bu ... more...
Open fires in public areas create the welcoming atmosphere for which the Hylands Burren Hotel is famous - and, owned by the Quinn family, who are local with many years in business in Ballyvaughan village, it has the personal touch that only hands-on fa ... more...
Located in one of Cork city's most iconic buildings - dating back to1820 and home to the Dwyer family's legendary manufacturing business that employed thousands at its peak - Dwyers of Cork is now an atmospheric big gastropub, popular for its live musi ... more...