The best restaurants in Kinsale

14/07/2025: First class . Great wine bar in its own right . Add in really good , simple food with excellent service and you have a winning combination. Great wine list and huge range of wines by the glass. A really great mind set behind this operation. Fantastic

13/07/2025: Cosy restaurant and wine bar with small dishes perfect for sharing with friends. Our meal last night was great, reasonably priced with great service.

20/07/2025: Fantastic food, lovely staff, great service and just a beautiful restaurant - great value and big portions!

18/07/2025: Beautiful food. Sweet potato side was unreal. Chips were phenomenal. Even the bread beforehand was delicious My duck main was phenomenal, my fiancé wasn't overly impressed with the aubergine main but maybe just wasn't hungry enough. Would try something else instead. Everything was delicious. Everybody elses food looked top class. Lovely atmosphere and ambience The creme brulee was the most mouth watering we've ever had. Celebrated our engagement and birthday in style. We will be back again Great service also.

23/06/2025: An incredibly good café. We had several drinks, all of which were perfectly balanced. Most importantly, they weren't too sweet, just right. The service was friendly. The restroom is very well-maintained. They sell some lovely products in the café, which are also exceptional and great. There are only a few seats, so grab one and enjoy your drinks.

14/06/2025: The barista Diarmuid created an inviting atmosphere, and the matcha was the best I have had in Cork so far. Beautiful personality, a brilliant member of staff. Deserves a raise in my opinion. Will come again and recommend to friends.

02/07/2025: I honestly never fancied the Fish and Chips concept: found it a tad bit too bleak for my taste, however, these guys have something really fresh, juicy and unique. It’s safe to say that this is one of the best in Ireland. 100% recommended.

21/06/2025: Best fish and chips in town. Great service and good prices.

09/07/2025: Without doubt the best Fish and Chips I've ever had. Lovely lady serving, we managed to get a bench, value for money. A large fish and chips 12 euro, amazing value and no doubt the reason it seems so popular. Not greedy, I really like it and will tell everyone about it.

02/07/2025: I honestly never fancied the Fish and Chips concept: found it a tad bit too bleak for my taste, however, these guys have something really fresh, juicy and unique. It’s safe to say that this is one of the best in Ireland. 100% recommended.

27/06/2025: Amazing dinner started out with 3 raw oysters and 3 grilled and they were both amazing then we did the tuna tartare. Then the we had the tuna special and kids pasta with bao buns. The whiskey sour was also a must try.

26/06/2025: we cannot praise the food enough. Definitely the best food we have had during our Ireland trip. The cod was exceptional and the ragu pasta was extremely tasty. The staff are very attentive and made for a great evening out.

13/07/2025: We drove 30 minutes to get coffee for a birthday we arrived at 2:40 and went to the coffee hatch to get takeaway coffees. we were waiting to order when a waitress came up to the hatch and said sorry we are done for the day and proceeded to close the hatch in my face I said are you sure we can't get coffees it's says your open till 3 the woman who I presume owned it butted in and attacked me she was very passive aggressive and made me feel uncomfortable she started speaking in a raised tone and gave a speach about how they ran out of ice, we're closed for the day and so on. I think that's completely unbelievable I am certain they would have an ice machine and there were people finishing up their meal so would not be closing till they finished anyway I am absolutely appalled at their service and will never be back and severely recommend avoiding this spot! Worst service ever

26/06/2025: Place was busy so we had to wait a few minutes, however the server/owner not have been more helpful. Small but quality menu. Food arrived promptly and was plentiful. Would recommend either the breakfast focaccia or the tuna melt. Well worth visiting if ever in Kinsale, will be back again!

22/07/2025: Every dish is bursting with flavour, perfectly seasoned and exceptionally cooked. The atmosphere is friendly and inviting. The hostess and waiters are all very welcoming and so friendly.

01/07/2025: Absolutely superb. Every review reiterates our view. Steak sublime, wine menu stellar for a change! What a choice, french reds curated well... Staff and ambience all spot on. A delightful experience all together!

02/07/2025: Absolutely brilliant coffee, genuinely lovely service and gorgeous things for sale

10/06/2025: Best coffee ☕️ in Kinsale. Friendly staff.

31/07/2025: Very nice cafe in a great location in Kinsale. The menu is good, plenty choices. The food was presented very well and the food was very flavoursome. I loved the Rustic Hash. They have a good choice of cakes and scones. Coffee was good. Staff were very pleasant and the service was good.

29/07/2025: Appalling service for the tapas night, even the bread and olives took forever to come out. We waited an hour and a half for my food to arrive. When it finally arrived wasn’t nice at all! ( Squid rings in batter). Kept apologising, saying how busy they were!

13/06/2025: If you go to Kinsale you must visit the Bulman. Amazing food, staff and atmosphere. I could have stayed here all day.

11/06/2025: Excellent pub atmosphere and service: however I was appallingly ill despite choosing from the GF menu which surprised me; either flour was used in the rib sauce or contamination occurred on frying of the chips. Shame because it felt confident about its allergen safe offering. Be careful.

16/07/2025: Nice place to eat in Kinsale, the soup was really good! Fast and friendly service, the girls are very helpful. Price is average for the place.

01/07/2025: Great fish and chips and a wonderful atmosphere!

06/07/2025: While on a trip to Kinsale, a harbour town outside of Cork City, we popped into Kitty O Sheas for a bite to eat. The food was excellent, and when the live music started, we ended up staying for another few hours washing down the food with cold beers. The staff were great, as was the atmosphere.

30/06/2025: Stopped for a pint and to listen to the music. It was crowded and loud, which was to be expected. We did not order food, so I cannot comment on the food or service.

07/07/2025: There is potential here, but it’s a miss overall for me. Reservations require a CC to hold, which is fine, but sets the expectation for a somewhat elevated experience - which this was not. Let’s start with the best part, the service! Service team was welcoming, attentive and wonderful. 😁👍The food was mediocre at best. We ordered the short ribs, the rib-eye steak, and the dirty mash and grilled vegetable sides. Steak was decently cooked, poorly seasoned, and the peppercorn sauce left some room for improvement. The shirt ribs were okay, sauce wasn’t well rounded. They could have been so much better. The grilled vegetables were rough! The aubergines were slimy and limp (steamed before grilling?), the corn was served with a large portion of the cob still on in an awkward way, the peppers were like the aubergine, limp and overcooked, especially for a “grilled” prep. The dirty mash side was good, but I had the gravy on the side and I’m soooo glad I did, because it was way too sweet. You can’t cover up poor gravy with sugar. We decided not to stay for dessert. The atmosphere has potential, but was a miss. The playlist for me was the biggest problem, think of a whole rock playlist based on the song Loser by Beck, just kinda killed the elevated dinner vibe that I would suggest they go for. The music would have been fitting for a pub lunch maybe. Another suggestion - plants. Not a single living plant in the place, no fresh flowers, nothing. There was a chalk board, with nothing on it. ☹️. Suggest putting special here or if no specials, maybe a suggested pairing or dessert highlight, anything other than the sad blank board. Anyway, these are fixable things, but they probably will need to be addressed if they want to compete in the Kinsale scene, which is full of fantastic options.

27/06/2025: Main dining room has a wonderful ambiance. Staff were very friendly and gave just the right amount of attention to us. Food was delicious! We had langoustine and chicken liver pate to start followed by the pork chop and hake for main course with a side of the charred cabbage. Good wine list and some non-alcoholic options too. The Irish strawberry cheese was fabulously light and not too sweet. Overall, a lovely dinner.

21/07/2025: Good food. Very cosy, warm and welcoming. We had family lunch there and the food was great. The fish was very well served.

12/07/2025: Have visited this restaurant many times before and it was always lovely however on this occasion it was seriously lacking. I ordered a Coke Zero and traditional fish and chips. The waitress brought me a Diet Coke and never explained that they had no Coke Zero until I noticed the mistake and asked then she admitted that it was Diet Coke instead of just being up front from the start. The fish and chips were bland, the fish was tasteless and the chips were frozen chips. Extremely below average. We won’t be back.