The best restaurants

06/08/2026: I walked in this restaurant at 22.30, tired from working all day long and travelling from Sligo to Dundalk. The service was fast, the food arrived fast and the taste was excellent. I love Chinese and i had it in may different places in Ireland. I got the house special black bean sauce plate!

05/04/2026: Very friendly staff, food amazing and great value

19/09/2026: I ordered the same drink twice, vodka with Red Bull, and paid a different amount, 12.30 euros the first time, and 19.45 euros the second time. The service is not very pleasant.

06/09/2026: Very Busy! They need more staff!

15/08/2026: Very posh and beautiful decoration.

05/08/2026: Absolutely delicious food, creative combination of flavours, friendly down to earth service, stylish decor. We dined in the restaurant rather than the bar, both are relaxed style. Busy enough on a Wednesday evening, nice ambiance. Looking for an excuse to return soon. 😀 Price reflects what I'd expect for this type of cuisine unlike the experience in some places nowadays.

20/07/2026: was here for world cup finale and the staff handled adverse circumstances very admirably. shoutout evan(?) who was working bar alone upstairs, he was efficient and also friendly, total champion. not to mention extremely reasonable prices for draught. definitely will be back!

15/07/2026: Nice Irish pub, good atmosphere, quickly met locals, everyone was very nice.

12/04/2026: Location, location, location.... With a great breakfast included in the price.

04/04/2026: Spent a night here after the Kilkenny 5km race. Highly recommend it. The staff was very helpful and welcoming 😊 the beds were cozy and the breakfast was 10/10. Thanks to staff Mario and Gerry.

14/08/2026: Pure, unadulterated class. You walk into The Oak Room expecting high-end theater, but what you actually get is a masterclass in respect—for the ingredients, for the craft, and for the sheer joy of eating well. The room hits you first: magnificent, moody, steeped in history, and completely devoid of the stuffy pretense that usually poisons fine dining. Then comes the tasting menu, a beautiful, coherent narrative where every single dish lands with quiet precision. Service is sharp, warm, and delightfully human (huge shoutout to Daniel for taking care of us like absolute royalty). It’s not cheap, but brilliance rarely is. A glorious, unforgettable night of real Irish hospitality.

05/05/2026: Quality traditional Irish food, with seasonal products, in a beautifully decorated room

03/08/2026: Small, family run restaurant/pub just minutes from the main road set in an old pub. Limited menu, but what they have is very good. The speciality of the house is steak and it shows. The chocolate cake deserves a mention also. Great people and great food. Indoor and outdoor seating available.

16/07/2026: Well know for the best quality steak sandwiches, just off the n22. Ideal location with ample parking

29/06/2026: Absolutely top class food, really professional service also. Run by the brilliant Alan O’Reilly whose restaurants have always been so impressive over the last few decades. Highly recommended. (note that nowadays they only seem to be open on Friday and Saturday evenings.)

12/06/2026: Absolute hidden gem of Blackrock! The food is out of this world and the service was perfection. Everything is paired perfectly and we cannot fault this restaurant.

01/07/2026: Food was Good. Service was terrible, they will have to actually try training their staff. Simple things were done badly: bartending was bad, I was even handed a Guinness that had been drank from by someone else by the bartender; servers snapping at reasonable requests from nearby customers. It's actually bad management really because they should enaure staff are trained. The pricing is ridiculous for a hotel of it's quality. Plenty room to improve.

14/06/2026: CHECK YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS...Paid by cash on arrival, the following evening we noticed that the full amount had been taken from our bank account +€100 security deposit. I phoned them that evening, after being placed on hold for about 20 minutes they agreed they had taken the money. I advised I would collect the cash on check out the next morning as we were off to another hotel for the rest of the week. When we arrived at the reception the next morning I was informed that they had processed a bank refund and would not give us back our cash. When I asked to speak to the manager I was left sitting a further 20 min for the receptionist to tell me the manager would not come to reception. Mistakes can be made by us all, but when a premises such as this makes one, you would imagine that the staff would be trained on how to rectify them and liaise with the guests. To say the manager would not come out just shows there is 0 customer service to be expected here on any level. They clearly were not going to inform us they took the money, only we noticed it and brought to their attention. Food extremely basic, greasy poor quality. Lots of slates missing from roof, leak in beedroom ceiling. Pool cold.

09/06/2026: Lovely gluten free cupcakes here!

15/05/2026: Delicious, but a bit pricey, and they have a large selection of food. The baked goods are homemade. I can highly recommend them.

02/06/2026: Lovely shop and lovely people. Coffee is fab and really good value

07/04/2026: I've always had great fondness for this shop and I hope the future is bright for it. Having said that, every time I go in lately there's been less and less on sale. No soup of the day, no wines to browse, none of a particular high-end frozen pizza that I became a fan of - and today evidently no ice-cream for sale at all! So I report with sadness that I often come away empty-handed of late.

04/07/2026: We had a very bad experience at this restaurant. The waiter and the manager were very rude to us. They were extremely impolite and made us feel unwelcome. Customer service was very disappointing. We expected to be treated with respect, but unfortunately, that did not happen. Because of this experience, we would not recommend this restaurant.

08/06/2026: Just to be clear, this is a nightclub with a hotel side hustle. We were greeted by a bouncer that asked us if we were “in the right area?”The entrance is in the nightclub vestibule, so we naturally looked out of place. After we clarified that we were staying at the hotel, he let us in. We then proceeded to be told by the Manager that our reservation did not exist, and that we could not be staying at the hotel because the entire hotel was closed due to renovations. I proceeded to show the manager our booking, confirmation, and our prepaid €800 bill. After this irrefutable evidence that we had booked a room months in advance, he then randomly “found” a room for us and let us through. Upon settling in our rooms we realized that there were no renovations at all, as well as other guests at the hotel. Our friends waited hours for extra sheets, neither of our rooms had coffee pods for the coffee machines in the room, and ours had a used pod in the machine. Coming back a day later from being out and about in Dublin our room keys no longer worked. The manager lied directly to our faces, for that sole reason I would not stay here under any circumstance.

29/08/2026: We had great tosts with ham and cheese, nice place with good service:)

09/08/2026: During a short stopover in Ennis, we took the opportunity to have breakfast. The welcome was warm and we were served quickly. The food was also delicious.