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Lemon Tree Restaurant Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
A Letterkenny favourite since 1999, this family-run restaurant celebrates 25 years in business this year although it has been in a spacious new se ...
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Castle Grove Country House Hotel Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Simple as it may sound, The Irish Bread Award is one of our most important accolades. Originally the idea of Donegal native and former Director Ge ...
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Woodcock Smokery Castletownshend, Co. Cork
A passionate believer in the value of tradition when it comes to indigenous food – and especially fish - the legendary West Cork fish smoker ...
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Teach de Broc Ballybunion, Co. Kerry
Ballybunion has long been a popular seaside resort, welcoming visitors from near and far since the 19th century. And, since 1994, many have wisely ...
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Ballykilcavan Farm & Brewing Company Stradbally, Co. Laois
It's hard to get your head around the story of a place like Ballykilcavan Farm in deepest Laois, where the Walsh family has worked the land since ...
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No. 14 at the Georgian House Comber, Co. Down
A lovely listed building dating back to 1722, No. 14 Georgian House makes an atmospheric setting for this thoughtfully structured enterprise by th ...
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Sheen Falls Lodge Kenmare, Co. Kerry
Open since 1991 and set in a 300-acre estate across the river from Kenmare town, this gently contemporary hotel has welcoming fires burning in the ...
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Leahy Beekeeping & Sliabh Aughty Honey Loughrea, Co. Galway
Near Loughrea in East Galway fourth generation conservationists, Leahy Beekeeping, produce the gorgeous Sliabh Aughty Honey - and it’s not o ...
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The Cliff House Hotel Ardmore, Co. Waterford
A bold modern boutique hotel overlooking Ardmore Bay, this chic five-star bolthole near Dungarvan has many strings to its bow, not least its setti ...
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Coach House Boutique B&B Dromore, Co. Down
Exciting developments in County Wicklow saw The Coach House in Roundwood re-opening in new ownership recently - and joining up with the brilliant ...
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Quinlan & Cooke Boutique Townhouse & QCs Seafood Restaurant Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry
With its welcoming fire, striking modern zinc-topped bar and nautical antiques and pictures, Kate Cooke’s atmospheric bar and restaurant wit ...
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Nightmarket Dublin 6
Restaurateur Conor Sexton and his partner Juturat Suwankeeree (aka R) bring deeply flavoured regional Thai cooking of the rustic food of Chiang Ma ...
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Sadlers Restaurant & Bar Fethard, Co. Tipperary
A new venture from the team behind the Cashel Palace Hotel (and with a good kitchen team overseen by their Director of Culinary, Stephen Hayes) an ...
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Seaview House Hotel Ballylickey, Co. Cork
Finding the right place to stay can make all the difference to a holiday or short break when travelling with your four-legged friend. But it&rsquo ...
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Stitch & Weave Londonderry, Co. Londonderry
When it comes to restaurants, they don’t do more historic than the delightful Stitch and Weave. Situated on historic Ebrington Square, right ...
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Farmgate Lismore Lismore, Co. Waterford
The Newcomer award is always exciting and every year the nominations list is very long indeed. Even at a time when the talk is mainly of closures, ...
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Goldie Co. Cork
At the helm of this small but very exciting fish restaurant in Cork city centre, Goldie, the talented young owner-chef Aishling Moore’s cour ...
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Barnahown Mitchelstown, Co. Cork
You don't have to be seeking an active holiday to love Barnahown, but it must help - with wonderful mountain treks and bike trails nearby, you won ...
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Higgins Family Butchers Dublin 13
Rick Higgins is the fourth generation to run this business and it is no ordinary butchers. How many butchers have a glass-walled dry-ageing room a ...
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Dromoland Castle Hotel Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare
The ancestral home of the O’Briens, barons of Inchiquin and direct descendants of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, Dromoland Castle is one ...
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McWilliam Park Hotel Claremorris, Co. Mayo
In new ownership since 2018 and recently revamped, this well located, well-run and fairly priced hotel makes a good base for exploring the wider r ...
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Horse and Jockey Hotel Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Once discovered, few would travel between Cork and Dublin without a stop at the Horse & Jockey and there are good reasons for that. A hotel of ...
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Gregans Castle Hotel Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
One of Ireland’s top food destinations for many years, Simon and Freddie Haden’s quietly luxurious and restorative country house hotel ...
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Kilkea Castle Hotel & Golf Resort Castledermot, Co. Kildare
Ireland’s oldest inhabited castle, Kilkea dates back to the 12th century. The original structure is surprisingly small - a ‘boutique c ...
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Elephant Rock Hotel Portrush, Co. Antrim
The rise of the boutique hotel is a welcome trend in Irish hospitality and, at its best, this is a genre that is providing a wonderfully quirky mi ...
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No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa Limerick, Co. Limerick
There is something seriously enticing about the idea of a hideaway in a city, somewhere special to retreat to away from the hustle and bustle. And ...
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Rathsallagh House Dunlavin, Co. Kildare
The O’Flynn family’s large, rambling country house on the Wicklow-Kildare border is just an hour from Dublin, but it could be in a dif ...
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Wren Urban Nest Dublin 2
The 2007 closure of Andrew's Lane Theatre caused a lot of angst, but its eventual replacement with 'Dublin's most sustainable hotel' has proved a ...
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OX Co. Antrim
Consistency is one of the main themes of this year’s awards and - when a respected reviewer comments that “We had dined here before an ...
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Ashford Castle Cong, Co. Mayo
The ‘Memorable Experience’ award is one that resonates with everyone – and it’s interesting to see how many of those exper ...