John and Lucy Finn's attractive restaurant is on the river, in a charming little award-winning tidy town a few miles north of Tuam - a welcome sight for hungry travellers between Galway and Sligo.
John cooks an eclectic mix of international and tradit ... more...
Not far from Nenagh, on the eastern shore of Lough Derg, the green fields of the Cooney family's farm provide plenty of the lush grass that their herd of Frieisan-Jersey cross cows needs to produce their abundant, creamy milk.
Just a few years ... more...
In an unassuming terrace property that you could easily miss - and where the legendary Skerries restaurant of the 1970s, The Windmill, used to be - Caroline Lacey and Paul Doherty’s Windmill Steakhouse is drawing in a new generation – and s ... more...
Set in a 300 acre estate in north county Dublin and built around the original Roganstown House, this is primarily a golf hotel but its convenience to Dublin airport and the city make it an attractive destination for business guests, travellers ... more...
Busy and noisy, the Port House is a little bit of Spain on South William Street.
One of the most popular little Dublin restaurants, from the team who created The Porterhouse (Parliament Street and other branches), it bears all their hallmark attention ... more...
Conveniently located right in the centre of Tullamore town, this deservedly popular Italian restaurant is owned and managed by Paula Moran-Tahraoui, formerly of the well-known Senor Rico Restaurant which she ran in the same premises with her late husba ... more...
Third generation butcher Martin Divilly and his wife Audrey offer an exceptionally wide range of excellent meats and have won many an award over the years to prove it.
While they concentrate on offering customers the very best meats and poultry - inc ... more...
Peter and Mary Huggard’s hotel dominates the seafront at Waterville; it is one of several to have strong links with Charlie Chaplin and is one of Ireland’s best-known hotels.
Like many hotels that have been owner-run for several generation ... more...
When the bread is as light and fluffy as you could dream of and comes with cool, whipped ricotta you know you’re onto something extra special. Then come three ‘snacks’ to get your palate excited, maybe smoked cod roe on toast or blue ... more...
The graffiti and pocked cement exterior hint at the cool and interesting happenings inside this once anonymous building. Transformed by Declan O’Regan, the clean-lined buzzy bar and restaurant is a stone’s throw from his other hospitality s ... more...