The best restaurants in Carlow

29/09/2025: Visiting from Scotland and Currently eating here with my partner and daughter,foods amazing,locations great and the service is absolutely fantastic,think we’ve found a regular haunt for future visits,thank you very much ladies Hayleigh

28/09/2025: Lady was super friendly and attentive

01/02/2026: Terrible service. Made us pay extra money on the rice and tried to fool us. All employees have attitude especially the owner. Ignored us completely when we tried to add some water for the table. Food is a 2/10. Definitely won’t visit again!

15/01/2026: My family and I have been coming for years and it's been pleasant every single time. My friends and boyfriend also enjoy it. The food is decently priced for the portions provided, it's tasty and fresh. The staff is friendly. The restaurant also has a nice atmosphere. Wonderful place for a birthday dinner or if you want Chinese food whether you want dine-in or takeaway.

11/02/2026: Got pizza, it was delicious. Seating area needs upgraded as there were several broken chairs

27/11/2025: Avoid this place at all costs When they get things wrong the manager talks over you and gives no apology Awful awful awful experience NEVER AGAIN I

27/11/2025: Avoid this place at all costs When they get things wrong the manager talks over you and gives no apology Awful awful awful experience NEVER AGAIN I

25/11/2025: A good decent supermacs. Very good staff. I was complaining to the lady who served me about the wooden forks used nowadays and she came back to me with a real fork.

30/01/2026: This review is purely based on the upstairs canteen. I’m currently studying here and today I got a sandwich and there was two long hairs in it. Every other day the food is not great, watery eggs and the prices are ridiculous considering they are feeding students barely scraping by. Feels more like a money racket that a student support. Staff are nice but overall the food they serve is very poor for the price they charge, they even charge you money for a sachet of ketchup.

21/12/2025: I have visited 4 colleges in four different counties in Ireland and SETU Carlow looks the most modern and classy. Tidy and beautiful environment with a very welcoming international office. I recently graduated from this college and I loved the student experience.

12/02/2026: I ordered online, wasn't given an option to set a time to collect my order but for some reason it swtu collection time to 2 and a half hours after I placed the order. I arrived in the lashing rain, not a single staff member in sight for about 5 minutes, finally someone appears and asks if I want to order, I say I'm waiting on an order. He darts back to god knows where. Other customers call out for staff but no one appears. I cannot see any food being prepared. 15 minutes after arriving it's just me there, no staff, no other customers. For 5 minutes I call out to the empty staff area. Finally the staff member returns, I am in a very upset state, saturated, starving and starting to tear up as I ask if my order is ready yet. Immediately the staff member pulls out the order receipt and tells me about the time set,, before telling me it's my fault. I am shocked because I didn't set that time. Suddenly he raises his voice and keeps giving out to me repeating that it's my fault and that I should have told him about the error I didn't know about. He barely lets me get a word in as I try to ask to cancel the order because I don't have the time to wait another however long it will take for him to make my food. I eventually left. I am never ordering there, I am disgusted with the lack basic decency or social skills, I am autistic and even I know not to give out to a crying person. If you want to get pizza in Carlow, Dominos is better.

16/01/2026: Food arrived stone cold as delivery driver went to incorrect address even tho the pin can be seen where location had to be brought to and address was correct. Had to ring up to sort it now. Waited an hour in the end in the cold outside and when the food finally arrived the pizza was like cardboard by then. Not worth €20 spend of food to arrive so late like this and cold! Very unprofessional

25/02/2026: Had a spice bag deliviered Portion was decent, spice bag had maybe a pinch of seasoning on it, mostly just old oil flavour. Satay sauce is just starchy jelly with a small satay flavouring

28/11/2025: Good was actually good. Great flavour. Decent enough spice bag!

24/12/2025: I rate it A 67 hehehehehehehhehahahahhaha

10/10/2025: Fantastic food, and the staff are always extremely friendly and helpful

01/05/2025: I originally had given this restaurant a 5 star review on the back of having been there a number of times. However, having recently returned, I found that this place has dropped a lot in quality and service. I believe it has changed hands/under new management and it would appear to have gone downhill since then. Such a pity, it was a great place to eat and family friendly.

11/04/2025: Unfortunately, food was just ok and that's me being "generous". Service felt like we were back in 90s. Atmosphere was like a nearly closing down place. Huge potential in the right hands,but definitely not into whomever runs it now. I'm not the person to complain and haven't said anything while settling the bill (which was 74 euro for 2 people and not even a "thank you" received). Won't be rushing again to eat here,for sure.

05/04/2025: Lovely places for food staff was lovely always so clean lots space fish was so beautiful

10/01/2026: Went out for a family meal and curry was bad tasted like tomato soup with chicken in it wouldn’t recommend going to this place really poor food quality and chicken tasted like it was frozen chicken

04/09/2025: Loved this place! My wife & I were staying in Carlow. My wife loves Indian food, but finds it difficult to find a really spicy curry. I prefer milder dishes. We ordered a vindaloo & a jalefrezi. The food was superb, the staff were friendly & helpful, & the cost was very affordable. Highly recommended .