The best restaurants in Kildare

10/06/2026: Crispy duck a must Beautiful food all round 😋

09/06/2026: Really good food and lovely service!

15/05/2026: Top class coffee shop with a great menu. Initially seemed a little on the pricey side but the portions and quality ensured good value

02/05/2026: Great spot for breakfast/lunch/brunch. It's in a old church and the interior and exterior are great. Service is fantastic and the food is very plentiful and tasty. Not too unreasonable for what you get.

24/05/2026: Great service, unreal food, would highly recommend

24/05/2026: Unbelievable food with even better service

31/05/2026: I had a wonderful time at The Ballymore Inn! 🤩 The food was really tasty, and the service was quite attentive. The atmosphere was pleasant, making it a great spot to relax. Definitely worth a visit! ✨👍😊

31/05/2026: We like to escape Dublin on weekends, so we choose more remote restaurants. We chose The Ballymore Inn very well. We were pleasantly surprised. The service is top-notch, the food is very delicious. I recommend visiting.

02/05/2026: What a treat! Had a last minute.com decision to go out on a Saturday evening. Decided to try The Dew Drop in Kill for early evening meal - booked a table x2 @ 5.15 which was only slot available until 8.30pm. A very engaging pleasant hostess showed us to our table at the very back of the restaurant, lovely quiet but atmospheric area, beautifully decorated and away from the 'buzz' of the front area of the restaurant. Our waitress was very helpful, smiling away doing her job and was very professional and attentive without being "too much". Wonderful experience from service perspective. Menu had great variety. The food did not disappoint! Beautifully presented and flavours were tantalising! We never felt rushed... leisurely finished our meal with a shared desert and well made Irish Coffee. Definitely will be back. Service was top class... something I put huge value on these days. So "Well Done" Dew Drop! You are nailing it! 😉

27/04/2026: We attended a recent family special event.... I can't say enough good things about this establishment... Great service.. great food.. great selection... Even samples of their beer selections... As for the waiting staff & especially the Gentleman that offered my Daughter her an option with her car issues.. they are all outstanding on many levels.... WELL DONE ALL

29/05/2026: Loved this stop right before entering Dublin. Highly recommend the menu and stop!

20/05/2026: Charming little restaurant with friendly, quick service. The food was plentiful and delicious.

17/05/2026: Best Chinese in the whole of Ireland hands down, North & South, absolutely authentic & delelicious.

25/04/2026: Very goos place for an easy night out

17/01/2026: Fantastic as always tonight. Great food, great staff & a great atmosphere. Our go to place for a steak in Kildare. We only hope it reopens very soon!

13/01/2026: Brill. Always loved it. U fortunately food side is closing. Newbridge worse for it....

01/06/2026: Upon entry I was greeted with excellent customer service and given the option of where I can sit. The waitress was so patient and kind with explaining the table ordering and gave me an option to use the till if needed. I got a butterfly sandwich with two sides - peri peri chips + garlic bread. Butterfly sandwich was juicy, healthy, fresh and very tastt. My only criticism was the tomato was too thick on the bun. The peri peri chips need a toss around in a bowl rather than drop the peri salt on one side of the chip. Garlic bread needs more garlic and moisture felt like the bread was dried toast. Still for the value of 23 euro it was reasonable. The decor is fab I love the eye catching paintings, lighting and colour scheme.

17/05/2026: Too complicated make orders and not very tasty. Stuff was ok friendly. Too pricey for that what you get. They charge for drinks €5. Never again in this restaurant

09/12/2025: Order two large pizzas as part of a deal got one large pizza with half and half..one side was fine came as ordered the other side was theyre texas bbq pizza and wasnt edible..whoever made it had put a bucket load of bbq sauce on the pizza also with very little cheese and the same for the other large pizza which was a create your own pizza again a mountain of bbq sauce and little cheese even though i ordered double cheese on it This is not the first time over the last few months in which we have had problems with food we have ordered and are bitterly dissapointed

04/12/2025: Order processing is super friendly and easy, our pizza was handed over on time with awesome taste …. Highly efficient and friendly staff Must visit spot

19/05/2026: Amazing room, great staff. Second time staying and will stay again in the future.

18/05/2026: Very nice restaurant. Great service. I recommend it.

18/05/2026: Small, but perfectly formed venue/theater. Very comfortable with a friendly staff and varied performance schedule. Recommended!

14/05/2026: Lovely little local theatre with lovely staff.

21/01/2026: Coffee a bit dated otherwise no complaints.

20/01/2026: Very good coffee. Free limited parking around the corner. Visit for a coffee and a snack.

14/12/2025: Kebabs are awful. Doner meat burnt and the chicken is a chopped up breaded goujon.. if I wanted a chicken fillet wrap I’d have gone to a deli. Chips also not nice. Pizzas are great but I would never order a kebab or the chips again.

15/11/2025: We used to buy pizza here and it was amazing. The last two pizzas we got were mediocre and the chips were taken out of a Lidl bag. No decent Italian place would do Lidl chos. Great service, nice guys but the quality went down.

19/05/2026: We go to Cooke's quiet regularly, we recently celebrated our daughter's communion dinner here. We had the set menu in the Fox and Hare, the food was gorgeous, the staff could not have been any more helpful. We had the room to ourselves so the kids could enjoy themselves without disturbing other people.

17/05/2026: ​We visited Cookes of Caragh yesterday for a large family celebration. It was absolutely lovely from start to finish. ​From the moment we arrived, we were incredibly well looked after. The staff were so friendly and helpful. The food was delicious, the atmosphere was wonderful, and the hospitality was second to none. ​Thank you to the whole team for making our family celebration so memorable. We highly Cookes of Carragh.