A sister property to Galway Bay Hotel, Sheraton Athlone Hotel and Hyatt Centric Hotel Dublin, this family-owned waterside hotel adjoins Athlone Golf Club on the western shores of Lough Ree, just four miles outside Athlone town.
With lovely lake and is ... more...
Part restaurant, part wine bar The Brass Monkey is offers something unique among the dining choices on Howth’s West Pier.
The small space has been transformed into a comfortable dining room with cool floor tiles and rich red walls, allowing it t ... more...
In a key position on Grand Canal Square, Dublin city’s most striking modern hotel opened as The Marker in 2013, and then re-branded Anantara The Marker Dublin Hotel, in 2023.
With its unusual geometric white exterior - and despite its locat ... more...
Once a branch of the famous Youkstetter’s pork butcher shops immortalisd by James Joyce in Ulysses, this handsome tiled shopfront with dark green paintwork, matching awning and outside seating, has been home to Aidan and Karen McNeice’s pop ... more...
In a distinctive Victorian building on the College Green corner of D'Olier Street, the eponymous fine dining restaurant opened in late 2022. A collaboration between Anthony Smith, owner of the much-loved Mr Fox on Parnell Square, Australian Executive ... more...
Following the launch of the original General Merchants Café in east Belfast a year earlier (see entry), General Merchants opened on the Ormeau Road in 2016.
Just over a mile from the city centre, it's on a corner location and easy to spot with ... more...
Resplendent with abundant window boxes spilling over pink and black paintwork, this handsome traditional pub in Galway occupies a prominent corner position on Middle Street and Cross Street and proudly proclaims its establishment in 1759 beneath an ele ... more...
Langtons is mainly famous for its maze of bars, with seating areas and restaurants that stretch right through this substantial building to a garden and private car park.
Although the fine classic frontage remains, the old traditional bar at the front ... more...
A popular meeting spot for tech and creative types (but not that easy to find, due to its understated signage), barista champion Colin Harmon's 3fe is famous for the quality of its coffee offering and, for most people, the coffee experience is the ... 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...