Ireland can boast a good few high quality smoked salmon producers and here, on the south side of Galway Bay, Declan Droney's family business in the picturesque seaside village of Kinvara is among the most highly praised.
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This boutique Limerick hotels right in the heart of the commercial and shopping centre, and makes a convenient meeting place.
It is a warm and welcoming place in a relaxed modern style, and a pleasant bar off the lobby has plenty of sofas and easy cha ... more...
Horkan’s Lifestyle and Garden Centre, a few hundred metres along the road from the wonderful Museum of Country Life in Turlough, Castlebar, is a garden centre with a difference, one where you could spend many happy hours.
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This ACBI butchers shop is a branch of the acclaimed family-run Belfast business of the same name - and they share the benefit of sourcing their meat from the fourth generation family farm in Co Tyrone. more...
Deli / Food Market / Internet/Phone Mail Order / Online Shop / Speciality Store
Ireland's premier cheesemongers, Sheridans, have partnered with Ardkeen - which says a lot about the special nature of this extraordinary store, with its absolute commitment to quality and community, and its foundation of very local artisan stocks ('Ta ... more...
Pop up restaurants came and went with dizzying speed during the pandemic but this one was different, having been a favourite in Belfast since 2011.
It did move house, from its original location in the old Aldens in the City premises, but co-owners And ... more...
Like a lot of craft brewers, Sam Black started out with a home brewing kit. Fast forward a few years and he and his wife, Maudeline, traded up and founded the Kinsale Craft Brewery in 2013 in Co. Cork.
The Blacks are unique in that their brewery was c ... more...
This informal restaurant and fish shop is owned by respected chef Andy Rae and business partner Bob McCoubrey, of the original Mourne Seafood Bar in Dundrum, Co Down (see entry), who have their own shellfish beds on Carlingford Lough, and it has become ... more...
A Connemara institution, Gerry Coyne’s lovely big-hearted pub dates back to 1811 and, judging by the memorabilia on display in the bar, there are plenty of artefacts here now that might be familiar to customers from that time.
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Between Mulranny and Newport, beside Newfield Church, you'll find this very pleasant pub, run by local couple John and Anne Nevin. Dating from the mid-1800's, it has been in the Nevin family since 1970.
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