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For cooking and service well above average A selection of establishments outside the standard categories that should enhance the discerning travellers experience of Ireland Denotes genuine Irish food culture, ie special Irish food products/companies/producers, and highlights the best places to shop for regional and artisan foods; the selection excludes obvious 'non-Irish' elements regardless of quality, eg ethnic restaurants and specialists in coffee, wine and other drinks, unless relevant to local production or history. Eat & Stay establishments are chosen for their commitment to showcasing local produce and Irish hospitality. The "Best of the Best" - Only the very best establishments across various categories have been chosen for this accolade

The Global Village

There’s an air of quiet confidence about Global Village and Martin Bealin’s cooking is sure-handed, exceptionally creative and consistently well-judged. Nothing is over the top here but everything – the local provenance and seasonality, the cooking, the balance of flavours, the pride in service - works together to make a memorable experience. One not to be missed.
Open daily Mar-Oct, from 5pm. Early D 5pm-6pm. Open w/ends only Nov & Dec. Closed Christmas, open Dec 28–early Jan, then closed until early Mar. CC. Directions: Dingle town centre - top of Main Street on right, opposite turning to Green Street. Major cards. abbreviations

You could easily walk past Martin Bealin and Nuala Cassidy’s long-established restaurant in Dingle Town, but you'd be missing a treat. Unreasonably perhaps, the name and the street signage might make it seem like a different kind of place – multi-cultural, a bit hippy, maybe even an internet café – but make no mistake, this is a proper restaurant serving seriously good food.


It may also be hard to get a booking (the three phone numbers are definitely needed) but persistence is worthwhile and you'll be glad once you get in, as a prompt welcome is soon followed by efficient service and really excellent food.


Quite closely packed with white-clothed tables surrounded by happy diners, it's a long, narrow room with a blackboard proclaiming the daily specials - notably local fish and seafood but, unusually, it also names the day’s beef and lamb suppliers and the vegetables harvested from their own bio-dynamic garden out at Ventry.


The sourcing list on the menu is even more extensive, and it’s interesting to see Dingle Farmhouse Milk given full credit alongside the meats and fish, and famous speciality products like Ashes black and white puddings, from nearby Annascaul.


You'll find many equally appealing dishes among the 10 starters and mains on the à la carte, so choices aren't easy to make – but the delicious yeast breads brought to the table make it an enjoyable dilemma.


There’s an understandable emphasis on local seafood; on any one day the range could include scallops, crab, lobster, Glenbeigh mussels, monkfish, hake, plaice and lemon sole - and it’s good to see the humble mackerel given equal billing. Yet the meats carry weight too and, thanks to the exceptional respect accorded to vegetables here, vegetarians also fare very well.




The cooking style is modern classic, with choices including a number of ‘duo’ and trio’ dishes created around a single ingredient – a memorable Trio of Crab starter, for example, highlights the versatility (and deliciousness) of crab. A long white plate offers a parfait, a shot of bisque, Dingle gin and cucumber relish and a little dressed white crabmeat and apple salad; topped with a jaunty rosemary tuile, it’s pleasingly simple yet presents a perfectly satisfying combination of flavours and textures.


Another great starter is seared scallops set on potato rosti, Castlegregory chorizo, slow-cooked hen’s egg, capers and brown butter hollandaise; luxurious and yet also down to earth, it’s absolutely delicious – and, although the most expensive starter on the à la carte, not over-priced at about €14.


Among the mains, a dish such as whole black sole, with garlic crab toes, garden spinach, colcannon and hollandaise as is the medley of Dingle Bay seafood – turbot, brill, John Dory, cockles, hake, monkfish, crab toes, gurnard, scallops, and mussels, served with shellfish nage.


Yet, although weighted heavily in favour of fish, there will be a couple of tempting meat dishes, notably a wonderful plate of Kerry lamb ith crisp belly, confit neck fillet, sautéed kidney, shepherd’s pie, served with baby potatoes, pearl barley risotto and mint gel.


Following apace, desserts offer a pleasingly refreshing, seasonal selection alongside the de rigeur chocolate temptations; resist these if you will, but a magnificent moist orange cake with Bailey’s chocolate chip ice cream, orange curd vanilla marshmallow and orange jelly or the homemade ice creams may be waiting to get you – or perhaps the Irish Farmhouse Cheese selection. Supplied by Maja Binder’s Little Cheese Shop in the town, and including her own Dingle Peninsula Cheese of course, it is laid out in loving detail – and, to accompany, a glass of the suggested Graham’s Late Bottled Vintage Port 2005 is richly deserved.


There’s an air of quiet confidence about Global Village and Martin Bealin’s cooking is sure-handed, exceptionally creative and consistently well-judged. Nothing is over the top here but everything – the local provenance and seasonality, the cooking, the balance of flavours, the pride in service - works together to make a memorable experience. One not to be missed.

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Last Updated: 08-02-2021
Author: Georgina Campbell
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