The best restaurants in Kilkenny

07/03/2026: Amazing food and service. Recommend 10/10.

04/03/2026: Great amazing place to eat. Mary and Martina took our order the most kind and lovely waitress. Extremely nice and fast service. Cocktail were amazing highly recommended

18/03/2026: A pleasant and cozy atmosphere. Excellent for meeting up with friends and enjoying good Portuguese food (you can also satisfy your craving for Brazilian food). Worth a visit!

15/02/2026: Very nice food, staff and atmosphere 👌

04/02/2026: A must see. We met a number of great locals and tourists in this charming wee pub. Highly recommended!!

23/01/2026: Brian is awesome at this teeny tiny pub! We were only able to stay for one drink (tired mother-in-law), but we wish we could have stayed for hours! Thanks for the brief bit of music and camaraderie!

28/02/2026: One of the best places in Kilkenny for food and drink. We had lunch and a bottle of wine. The service was amazing and very friendly. The food was fantastic and when next in Kilkenny we will make this our first stop.

27/02/2026: Great place to relax and enjoy a good coffee and sandwiche.

06/03/2026: By far the best Eddie Rockets I have been to. Always love to come here with my family. Amazing food, great quality, always fresh and extremely tasty. The entire Staff is super nice and doing an amazing job. Keep up the fantastic work.

19/02/2026: Food wasn’t bad. Service was ok. From my point of view, expensive for the food you get.

09/03/2026: If I could add a sixth star I would. Very Impressive Restaurant. Unbelievable Staff, Atmosphere and the Food was outstanding. Especially as I am a Coeliac. We planned on going to a couple of different Restaurants in the area on our break but after one ,night in Rinuccini's, we were hooked so we booked the second night there also. Exceptional. See you Guys again soon!! Thank you so much!

24/02/2026: Service was beyond fault. Strong lack of vegetarian options particularly on the early bird menu. All that was available for starter (for veggies) was soup and salad and risotto for main. These dishes can be made comfortably at home (for me) so I would expect something different in a restaurant. The risotto was mushroom but had hazelnuts added and was a *very* large portion, which just didn't appeal to me. Lovely experience but would be so much better with more vegan/vegetarian choice. Also the value for vegetarians is not good when compared to the à la carte menu - I could only have soup and risotto so had no choice. Won't be back.

03/04/2026: Next to the castle, in a beautiful and solid building, we found a fantastic brewery. Great atmosphere and spacious. The burgers are delicious. Highly recommended.

03/04/2026: Three of us went for lunch and a few beers. The place is very nice and pretty, the burgers were substantial, and so was the sandwich!

30/12/2025: Beef and bean brunch option was poor. An extremely sugary sweet chili con carne with random things on top. Bread was good quality, but seemed to have been pan-fried in butter. Very odd. Unacceptable for the price. I ate it because I needed a meal, but should have sent it back. 'Pourover coffee' was very poor.

28/12/2025: Super tasty food and great staff

31/12/2025: Probably the worse bar service n Kilkenny. Pure greed during the day served all the locals before he would even look at us. We waiting nearly 10 mins and had to leave to go elsewhere

14/12/2025: No food that I saw great pub with friendly staff and music.

15/03/2026: Joel was a great steward for the pub seafood chowder was fabulous. Returned a number of times.

23/10/2025: Great pint, fabulous atmosphere

10/08/2025: Had a very tasty lunch here. Generous portion and great customer service. I'll be back

03/08/2025: Mi café favorito en Irlanda. Venimos a Kilkenny por muchas razones, y Mocha es una de ellas. Deliciosos bocadillos caseros, ensaladas y pasteles servidos en un hermoso espacio por gente genuina. ITEs lo mejor! También impecablemente limpio. No puedo recomendar IT suficientemente.

28/02/2026: Wonderful meal. We were there on a Monday early but delighted to see more tables filling up as we left. Quality and quantity of the food were excellent. Delicious.

24/02/2026: Lovely food at reasonable prices with very nice staff.

01/01/2026: Was there for new years eve and had a great time. Friendly atmosphere!

12/10/2025: A bar with great character and charm ... sadly disappearing today. The bar staff and the customers were friendly and full of locals knowledge, the bar comfortable and rustic and the pints tasty. The toilets were clean and the prices reasonable. What more do you need!

12/11/2025: One of the best places in Kilkenny for food. Service is excellent. Been ba k a few times now

05/11/2025: Have been here a few times,always an enjoyable experience, nice selection of food on menu,plenty of gluten free options,the staff are brilliant ,nothing was too much trouble, one of kilkennys best restaurants .

28/12/2025: I paid €11 for a cold sandwich which was exactly like a meal deal from Tesco, except it was on a plate. Prices are high here but this was a rip off. The bread wasn't even toasted or fresh. All the ingredients tasted like they were bought from a supermarket a few days ago.

28/12/2025: Had a lovely club sandwich and my partner had a sweet chilli panini, he said he loved it. We also had a hot chocolate to share which was very tasty. Overall would highly recommend.