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Serious About Seafood Previous Georgina Campbell Guides Award Winner The "Best of the Best" - Only the very best establishments across various categories have been chosen for this accolade

O'Dowds Seafood Bar & Restaurant

The O’Dowd family have been welcoming visitors to this much-loved pub overlooking the harbour for longer than most people care to remember
Restaurant seats 36 (+6 outdoors): D 5pm-9pm daily (reservations essential). Bar menu 12pm-9pm daily. Café (summer): open 9.30am-4pm (light meals). Children welcome before 7pm (high chair, children's menu). Self-catering accommodation available - details on application. Closed 25 Dec. MasterCard, Visa abbreviations

The O’Dowd family have been welcoming visitors to this much-loved pub overlooking the harbour for longer than most people care to remember.


There are some new developments from time to time, but the old bar is always the same – or at least it was until relatively recently, when the Guide was shocked to find a (very attractive) smart new facade and a new front door.


Inside it is always reassuring familiar, however, and it remains one of those simple places, with the comfort of an open fire and a good pint, where people congregate in total relaxation - if they can get in (it can be very busy in the summer months).


A reasonably priced bar menu majoring in seafood offers sustenance (the seafood chowder is legendary) or, for more formal meals, the restaurant next door does the honours: mussels, crab, hot buttered lobster, in-shell Aran Bay prawns in garlic butter etc; non-fish eaters will be pleased to find some other choices, including Connemara lamb, and vegetarian / vegan dishes are always available; simple puds like blackberry & apple pie to finish. And there is also a café, which is open daily in the summer months. Magic.

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Last Updated: 25-05-2023
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