A distinctive black and white three-storey building in downtown Salthill, just a stone’s throw from the Atlantic Ocean, Joanna Paszkiewicz and Chef Leon Mellsop's Black Cat has been a casual dining destination of choice for discerning Galwegians ... more...
A first venture for husband-and-wife team Zsolt Lukács and Edel McMahon-Lukács, Darog ('small oak tree') was warmly welcomed when it opened in late 2023 - not least because it is such a fitting successor to Tartare, the former occup ... more...
Originally an eighteenth century residence, Glenlo Abbey is just two and a half miles from Galway city yet, beautifully located on a 138-acre estate, with its own golf course and Pavilion, this Blue Book property offers all the advantages of the countr ... more...
This appealing Pan Asian restaurant in Galway city centre is loosely based on the ancient Chinese Tea House concept (a café centred around tea drinking) and decorated with furnishings from Asia, Cambodia and Thailand.
More sophisticated than mo ... more...
One of three Galway restaurants owned and operated by husband and wife team Jp McMahon and Drigín Gaffey in the EatGalway Group, the small, brightly painted traditional shop front looks out on a favourite Galway landmark, Charlie Byrnes Bookshop ... more...
This is the restaurant of choice at Glenlo Abbey - perhaps the country’s most novel dinner venue, it was our Atmospheric Restaurant of the Year in 2005: four carriages, two of them from the original Orient Express that featured in scenes from &ld ... more...
JP McMahon and Drigin Gaffey opened Aniar in 2011. It immediately became the most talked about restaurant in Galway, and was soon rewarded with international as well as Irish acclaim. Since then it has flown a flag for Galway’s reputation ... more...
Antons is a popular, family-run Galway café, a five minute walk from Jurys Inn over the bridge. It's a simple place, a long room with local artists' paintings and a lot of wood - floors, tables, chairs and benches - mugs and unmatching ware.
It ... more...
Art house film is a genre which encompasses content and style which is often artistic or experimental, expressing the filmmakers’ personal artistic vision. In the Pálás Cinema, the restaurant perfectly reflects this ideology. ... more...
At the end of the Prom in Salthill the locals all kick the wall for all kinds of reasons, some lofty and some daft. Now they go 10 more steps to visit Galway's most loved new place, Blackrock Cottage, alongside the iconic Diving Tower. Some go ... more...
A selective companion guide to our famous broad-based online collection, the ‘glovebox bible’ includes a uniquely diverse range of Ireland's greatest places to ...
