The Chop House (formerly The Malt House Restaurant)

A famous Galway partnership, The Dough Bros are artisan pizza makers who insist on nothing but the best.  Having built a cult following from their pizza van at Moycullen market and other locations around Galway city and achieved huge success at the Galway Food Fest ...

  Nestled into Upper Dominick Street, Matt Hall's cosy and authentic gastropub is named after a former lock keeper of the adjacent Parkaveara lock on the 19th century Eglinton Canal. Although it is a relatively recent addition to the Westend dining scene, John Keo ...

Half an hour or so west of Galway city and handily located next door to TG4’s headquarters, Cork chef Diarmuid O'Mathúna's vibrant bi-lingual café is billed as 'the last stop before the Aran Islands' - and, scenically set in the thatched two storey bu ...

Handily located about halfway between the Dublin-Galway motorway and Loughrea, chef Danny Africano's unusual restaurant, Lignum, opened to well-deserved acclaim in September 2019. Instantly making rural East Galway a must-visit destination for food lovers, Lignum quickl ...

Emily Furey realised her dream of owning a coffee house and café when she opened Kelly’s in Mountbellew in spring 2021. She says it just felt right when she first walked into this former pub on the square in the thriving market town - there's a cast-iron pla ...

The opening of La Casa brought a joyful new arrival to Claremorris in late 2023 - and, having hit the ground running, it soon became the go-to place for the area's lovers of Mediterranean food and hospitality. And that should be no surprise, as - having run several esta ...