The best restaurants in Laois

14/09/2025: This was shaping up to be a great spot, but for some reason they got rid of the manager. It has been downhill since, he was the life blood of the place, great energy! Pity it's a nice spot, it was worth stopping in Monuntrath for, but not anymore.

06/05/2025: Fantastic food. Great value and really really tasty. Excellent service , loads of space and v clean. Will definitely be back 👍

20/11/2025: Lovely little café with fab homewares. A few high chairs would be great!

16/10/2025: Love coming in here apart from one issue.. staff. In fairness one in particular. Don't know her name, middle aged lady with short blonde hair. Anyway each time we go in there we are made to feel like we are an inconvince to her. Never a nice word or a thanks. The others are lovely to be fair but I seriously hope whom ever she is has a better day the next time we are in.

06/12/2025: So Im out having a Xmas drink first time in along time and Ive just moved the town and please be advised I was told this pub was somewhere to go to enjoy and relax but they bar man was horrible and insulting and rude i didn't even bother to order a drink for someone to judge someone is a horrible person and place and he said he didn't know me well I didn't know your pub and I will never know it for they horrible disgusting judgemental way they barman was so that was my experience 2seconds

14/07/2025: Lovely pint of Guinness, great service and friendly owners

18/11/2025: Kip of a pub so many great pubs in mountrath don't know why people go in here the only people in their are dirty aul lads. Ya go out to smoking area at the back the smell of urine would turn ya off your fag. The people who work in their can't pull a pint to save their lives. Their is better pubs with better pints and facilities to spend your money in

13/08/2025: Great pub,perfect pints,good atmosphere, lovely staff & some very good music to be found here.

19/10/2025: My husband and I both love this restaurant: whether to eat in or take out, the quality of the food is top notch. The menu is extensive, and the prices are very reasonable for the portions given. The restaurant dining area is very cosy, dimly lit, but that adds to the atmosphere, as does the music. I think it's a pity that the dining area isn't full every night, but I feel that's partly due to the location (lovely though it is, being situated on the historic French Church Street), and the still-lingering after effects of Covid. The takeaway part is always busy, and there is a delivery or pick up option. If you love authentic Indian food, cooked well, and sold in decent-sized portions, then I recommend that you get yourself to The Great India for a treat for which your taste buds will thank you!

03/09/2025: Great atmosphere and amazing staff

13/08/2025: Sally's is a great place at the weekend thanks to the staff great beer and great music

09/08/2025: Good night in coppers Portlaoise. Late night music and party atmosphere. Worth a go

04/08/2025: Best club in portlaoise.highly recommended.

01/02/2026: The food was full of natural flavor.

25/12/2025: A little gem. Lovely food and lovey staff.

09/10/2025: Great place in midland for foreign language movies. Not at all crowded. Decent movie experience

15/09/2025: I just visited Odeon Portlaoise today and when we arrived the lift happened to be out of order. The staff went absolutely above and beyond to help us get to where we needed to go and they were most apologetic. We really appreciated it. I haven't experienced service this good in years it was wonderful to experience.

12/12/2025: Very very rude staff. I politely followed up for my tuna panini as I only had an hour of lunch and was told "we're very busy" another woman that took our order was screaming at me when i just wanted to order. Wouldn't recommend this restaurant!

15/11/2025: The establishment has a lot of work to do on their food . The breakfast was erm to put it politely, very low quality. The sausage was definitely frozen and deep fried as for the rasher I have no word s, scrambled eggs microwaved and as for the coffee flavoured warm water is the best way to put it . I know this is a cafe and not fine restaurant but one would think with such a large foot fall at your front door ...there would be some effort to put in some effort . I would not recommend a breakfast here or a coffee .

12/01/2026: The spice bag with a free drink and tasty! Wow!

02/01/2026: Top class will definitely order again delivery was the best and the passenger jack conroy was very kind and respectful

28/02/2026: Excellent food, great staff, the bbq chicken wings fell off the bone and were the best iv ever had, the Guinness is excellent, definitely worth the visit

26/02/2026: Lovely clean friendly helpful just a lovely place for food and drink

01/02/2026: A very positive experience from start to finish.

18/01/2026: Ninos chippers on main street portlaoise has to be the best chippers I've ever had. Great service and absolutely spotless clean and very pleasant staff , TOP CLASS.

12/10/2025: I like the place,went for swimming but the water was cold

04/10/2025: I have been using Leisure centre for about 3 years, it is notoriously the worst gym in Portlaoise on account of the small space lacking some serious equipment and horrible changing room facilities. I still enjoyed it as the price correlated to the quality/size and was usually quite and had a lovely crowd. When renewing my membership after the remodel the price had sky rocketed only being a few euros cheaper then Midlands which has much better classes, changing rooms, spa discounts, etc. There is an obvious issue with maintaining staff especially in the last few months. Most of the staff inside the gym are lovely but the front desk staff always seem to have a horrible attitude and seem frustrated with the most basic questions. What has driven me to the point of a negative review is there has been a huge influx of children/very young teenagers using the gym. Younger people being there would not be an issue if they werent so disruptive, they are wrestling each other, half of them wearing school uniforms (jeans) leaving phones and other belongings over all the equipment that they’re not using so it cannot be used by other members. If say your using a bench in the dumbbell section theres 5 kids crowding around one on another and they are accidentally sitting on top of you and bumping into you with weights in hand making it impossible to work out. Not to mention the fact they’re constantly hitting, pushing, and pulling at each other around other people who are paying a high price to just clear their head after a long work day. The gym is much too expensive for what it is and to pay that much to not be able to workout because they have no regard for anyone else and staff instead of asking them to mellow down a little are fistbumping them, taking selfies with them and actively encouraging the behaviour. My partner asked the other day who was in charge and the woman who identified herself as so, I asked her this Thursday what time does the gym close at on Saturdays and she said half 5 yet this Saturday was kicked out at 5 because “they’re closed.” They keep repainting the place but no effort to maintain the changing rooms or maintain any sort of gym environment. If I had paid for the month I would simply change gyms but I paid for the year in May and have noticed such a drastic steady decline since then. Extremely disappointing.

07/03/2026: Waited over an hour and rang to discover they hadn't even sent it and when it arrived it was cold and not nice

27/01/2026: Love the food and the staff are really polite