The best restaurants in Clifden

14/10/2025: great choice of Whiskey and Whisky 🥃. Lovely lady at the bar. Highly recommendable 👍🏻

09/10/2025: Great atmosphere and even better music. A must visit in Clifton.

07/09/2025: A place to relax and have snacks

04/09/2025: Thanks for the really lovely lentil dahl soup with excellent bread! And of course a great pot of tea.

20/10/2025: Myself & 2 friends spent 3 nights in the Abbeyglen recently & had a most enjoyable experience. From minute we landed everything was perfect, from breakfast to history of house to a fabulous dinner. We got brilliant value for what we paid for our stay. Staff were very helpful staff at reception. restaurant & bar staff & cleaners. We will definitely be making this an annual trip

12/10/2025: This is going to be a long one. This place is five stars, more like seven, do you want character? This has it do you want architecture has that too? Do you want a beautiful view check, can you walk to town?yes. Do you like Ivy? This place has lots of it. The inside, it’s old. There’s necks and scratches, it feels like the kind of place you’ll never wanna leave. Staff? Fantastic. The rooms, unbelievable. The bathrooms? As nice as they could possibly be. Fabulous rain showers. The food, absolutely five star, the food service? Add another five stars. The atmosphere? Had another five stars. We went on a tour of Scotland in Ireland and this by far was the finest place we stayed. I actually had to stop and ask some of the staff people how they liked working there, because if you could choose the most fabulous place to have a job, this would be it. Everybody there was like family. Check out my pictures.

10/10/2025: Lovely calamari, fish and chips. Friendly service. A bit pricey but it was good.

08/10/2025: Great restaurant. The lamb stew is just amazing, the best I've ever had. The staff is also great. The three women in the dining room were lovely. Thank you!!

11/10/2025: Excellent restaurant! Fresh seafood! Their clam chowder is absolutely delicious! Our pacific Canadian chowder is a bit different, but this o e I would order again! Steam mussels were good too Recommend to anyone

11/10/2025: Very good restaurant We've been there twice in three years and still haven't been disappointed. Seafood chowder, mussels, salmon, and meat are top-notch.

05/10/2025: The seafood chowder was creamy and packed with all sorts of local fare. It went perfectly with the brown bread and Smithwick’sy

03/10/2025: We are a gay male couple in our mid sixties. I checked earlier to ask if they had a table for two at 7:30. Was told they would take care of us. When we arrived they said they do not take reservations. When we arrived we had a short wait to be seated In which time a single showed behind. We were seated at a rear bar that sat two not a table. When I asked if we could have a table was told none available. Two minutes later I walked to restroom and saw one available and the person behind us was seated alone in a booth. Didn’t want to make a fuss but felt we were not treated very well. maybe not that gay friendly an establishment. Would not recommend. Wait staff fine.

08/10/2025: Great restaurant. The lamb stew is just amazing, the best I've ever had. The staff is also great. The three women in the dining room were lovely. Thank you!!

03/10/2025: Very friendly staff... The service and food are excellent... The seafood is absolutely fresh, straight from the sea...

26/09/2025: Very friendly welcome Patrick, the very friendly waiter...great musical atmosphere with a typical local band, excellent food, highly recommended, but reservations are recommended.

17/09/2025: Great pub and restaurant, with a great atmosphere and good music. Special mention to John for his dancing and entertainment talents. A must-see if you're in Clifden!

26/09/2025: After one too many toasties I treated myself to a proper dinner and had the chicken dish. It was so delicious. I couldn’t get enough of the sauce that was with it. Amazing.

26/09/2025: Really really fab restaurant. Staff, food and ambience were all ten out of ten. Came here with a group and Sandra and all her staff looked after us to no end. The food was just perfect. Very much hope to be back. Thank you so much :) <3

16/09/2025: Located in the middle of Clifden, this is a pleasant and cozy restaurant with very friendly, polite, and professional staff. The food was delicious and reasonably priced. We were very well taken care of. After dinner, you can go to the hotel pub without going outside, which has a great atmosphere.

20/08/2025: Very pleasant setting. The service is attentive and very friendly. I recommend the lamb, which is very good, with all the accompanying dishes at no extra charge. In short, very good.

16/09/2025: Delicious duck! My hubs enjoyed his steak too. Prices were good! We enjoyed it greatly. Stopped for late lunch. Sat, Sept 14, 2024.

16/09/2025: Best fish and chips I’ve ever had. Pepper sauce was absolutely delish.

23/10/2025: A real treat. Lovely hotel with great food and friendly atmosphere. Will be back!

18/10/2025: We stopped for lunch, the food were delicious

09/08/2025: Best BLT in the west of Ireland possibly?

03/08/2025: Very comfortable relaxed atmosphere. Quality staff. Wholesome home made food. Would highly recommend this restaurant/coffee shop

01/10/2025: Went there tonight, flat as a pancake. Didn't even stay for a meal or a drink, apparently just recovering from the arts festival, lucky for them to have a good time.

19/09/2025: Went there because of the many good reviews. I can't recommend it or would visit again. The inside looks like a typical, maybe a bit more modern irish pub. Not really special but at least clean. First bad impression were salt and pepper mills from LIDL standing on every table. Noone exspects some kind of exspensive or exclusive salt and pepper, but that looks cheap and lazy. At least fill it in something else. As Starter we had a sweet potato soup (consistency meh, taste ok) and a fish chowder. The chowder tasted ok, but I'm not convinced that the fish inside was fresh, it looked like and had the consistency of a frozen fish mix. Both came with slices of bread - the same we had bought prepacked in the supermarket days before and had for breakfast. It' not that hard to bake bread. As main courses we got the irish stew and a fish pie. The stew was offered as "guinnes stew", you couldn't taste that at all. The beef was dry and way too overcooked, every cut gets soft when you boil it enough. The carrot inside were therefore mushy as well. When we got the fish pie it was a bit of a disappointment - it was just the chowder again, this time with peas (frozen?) added and topped with mashed potatoes. Would have been a nice move by the waitress to tell us that the dishes are practically the same... the mashed potatoes came with the stew as well, stirred or blended or however prepared till it had the consistency of glue and not really much taste left. The waitresses were polite, but thats the standard in my eyes. The service overall in the restaurant was slow and very inconsistent - tables got their food more by chance. Overall not the worst, but not worth a visit. Can't understand the good reviews.

25/08/2025: About as good as it gets for Supermac's. Very nice staff. 10 min walk to centre of Clifden.

18/07/2025: The pizzas were delicious and not that expensive.