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CLEGGAN: Oliver’s Bar €€ GALWAY: Ard Bia at Nimmos €€ room. Open for dinner only;
Seafood Road map A3 Home cooking Road map B4 menu changes every night.
Cleggan, Co Galway Spanish Arch, Galway City
Tel 095 44640 Tel 091 561114 INISHMORE:
A very popular haunt for both Café by day and restaurant by Pier House Restaurant €€
locals and visitors, who come to night, Ard Bia serves great local Country kitchen Road map B4
sample the ultra-fresh seafood. food with influences from Europe Inishmore Island, Co Galway
and the Middle East. Tel 099 61417 Closed winter
CLIFDEN: The contemporary, modern
Mitchells Restaurant €€ GALWAY: McDonagh’s €€ Irish menu here features local
Seafood Road map A3 Seafood Road map B4 fresh seafood and lamb.
Market Street, Clifden, Co Galway 22 Quay Street, Galway City Ingredients are sourced from
Tel 095 21867 Closed Nov–Feb Tel 091 565001 Closed Sun local producers.
This family-run restaurant offers This renowned institution is said
good and keenly priced food. Try to have the widest selection KILCOLGAN:
the monkfish with colcannon of fish in the county and is Morans Oyster Cottage €€
and bacon potato cake. the place in Galway for high- Seafood Road map B4
quality fish and chips and The Weir, Kilcolgan,
CLIFDEN: fresh seafood. Co Galway
Ardagh Hotel & Restaurant €€€ Tel 091 796113
Irish Road map A3 GALWAY: In the same family for seven
Ballyconneely Road, Clifden, Co Galway The Seafood Bar @ Kirwans €€ generations, this restaurant in a
Tel 095 21384 Closed Nov–Easter Seafood Road map B4 thatched cottage has a seafood-
This award-winning restaurant, Kirwans Lane, Galway City heavy menu – crab, oysters,
with its spectacular views at Tel 091 568266 lobster, mussels and prawns.
sunset, specializes in lobster and The tasteful furnishings create
oysters as well as steaks. a warm, friendly ambience here, KINVARA:
while the menu offers bistro- Pier Head Restaurant €€
style dishes with meat and Irish Road map B4
DK Choice vegetarian options. Kinvara, Co Galway
CONG: Tel 091 638188
George V Dining Room €€€ GALWAY: Kai Cafe + Live music and great views of the
European Road map B3 Restaurant €€€ bay await at this restaurant. On the
Ashford Castle, Cong, Co Mayo Modern Irish Road map B4 menu are prime steaks, seafood
Tel 094 954 6003 20 Sea Road, Galway City and a small vegetarian choice.
Gents need a jacket and tie to Tel 091 526 003
dine under the Waterford crystal Fresh, organic dishes burst with LEENANE: Blackberry Café €€
chandeliers here as the resident the flavours of the west coast. Try Home cooking Road map B3
pianist plays. Highlights include their home-made fish fingers, Leenane, Co Galway
monkfish tail with fennel and crab salad, ox tongue and Tel 095 42240 Closed Oct–Easter
local goat’s cheese pannacotta. pumpkin jam, or Monkfish and A charming café with excellent
sea spaghetti. and hearty meals – oysters,
stews, fishcakes and chowders.
CONNEMARA: INIS MEAIN:
Owenmore Restaurant €€€ Inis Meain Restaurant €€€ LETTERFRACK:
Irish Road map B3 Irish Road map B4 Kylemore Abbey Restaurant €
Ballynahinch Castle Hotel, Recess, Inis Meain, Aran Islands, Co Galway Home cooking Road map A3
Co Galway Tel 086 826 6026 Closed Oct–Apr Kylemore, Co Galway
Tel 095 31006 The menu offers delicious Tel 095 52001
Enjoy elegant dining in a stunning dishes made with freshly caught Self-service restaurant in a stunning
location. The seasonal menus rely or locally grown ingredients. mountainside setting. Benedictine
on locally sourced meats, game, fish Enjoy panoramic sea views nuns run the gardens that yield
and oysters. Reservations essential. from the contemporary dining many vegetables on the menu.

George V Dining Room, Cong
For more information on types of restaurants see pages 304–5

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