The best restaurants in Portlaoise

15/06/2025: Had a waiter called Niamh and she was brilliant , so friendly and helpful!!!!

09/06/2025: Great food and attentive staff made our visit really enjoyable! ❤️

05/06/2025: I got two lovely hampers for my PhD supervisors for my graduation. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful. Lots of the stuff I bought was Irish which I really enjoyed since I like to shop local. Brilliant place

28/05/2025: I have been using Grape and Bean for corporate gifting for the last 3 years. And I have no intenetion of moving our business elsewhere!! The service has been first class and I would not hesitate in recommending them.

25/05/2025: Was in a rush and ended up only having about 20 minutes to get a quick bite with a friend for breakfast. Decided to try the pantry for the first time on a whim. Saturday morning and we were seated instantly, we ordered and had our food within less than 10 mins! Service was fantastic. You can pay at your table using contactless which just made it easier for us. Nice fresh food also and this smoothie bowl was delicious.

23/05/2025: Beautiful café with lots of love for the decor inside and out. Delicious coffee and amazing cakes! The waitress was very kind and asked the chef which cake had the least sugar, as we had a diabetic friend with us. We were on vacation driving from Dublin to Cork and stopped here. When paying, we asked for tips on places worth seeing. We received some very nice and excellent tips (Killarney, Rock of Cashel). Thank you very much! Greetings from Germany ;-)

04/05/2025: Lovely cafe. Delicious food.

18/04/2025: Fantastic place for solo or accompanied lunch:) The food is really healthy and nutritious and there's a generous portion of it. If you are protein lover you'll love the salmon and egg options and avocado implemented in sandwiches. This place is very popular and the only drawback are limited space and waiting queue. The latter, on the other hand shows you how popular the place is. Staff are very efficient and lovely.

30/04/2025: Food was not great and too overpriced.

27/04/2025: My favorite place to order from. I always order the Avocado burger with the garlic and cheese sauce fries. I was so looking forward to it after work this day but new menu means the Avocado burger is gone 😞 The only chicken burgers they have on menu now is 3 options and there a normal lettuce cheese mayo etc and rest are beef. The 3 chicken burgers on menu are basic so they could of got rid of either one of the chicken burgers or one of the beef burgers even. They took one of the nicest chicken burgers off the menu . I miss the Avocado burger please bring it back and keep it 🙏🏽 Either way i love eddies and i await to hear its back on menu 😊

05/06/2025: Best halal pizza shop in portlaoise

30/05/2025: Delecious Food great service friendly staff

29/05/2025: I like this pub, good atmosphere, warm and friendly culture. Friendly and helpful staff, always up for a chat. Live on regularly, fantastic outdoor area. Good vibe, great Guinness. Well done Kavanaghs team, luv your work 👍🫶

20/05/2025: Best pub in town bar none. Great place to watch sport, listen to live music and have the craic. The staff are also very friendly and the service was excellent. To top it off the pizza is delicious!

31/05/2025: When you call in a a takeaway they always ask you for when?? When you answer this question by saying 'when it's ready' they say 5 10 or 15 minutes but when you get there that 5 minutes turns into 15 minutes. When you go to collect you stand in an alley and nobody comes to the window to ask you what you ordered. Sit in might be alright but they can't do take away. Don't This is not the first time neither, they leave customers completely unattended in the 'alley'

20/05/2025: We went to Croft Alley for my hen and it was nothing short of exceptional. Gale the owner was incredibly accommodating providing us with a sharing menu for our large group and every single one of us were raving about the food after. We had gorgeous sharing starters that had something for everyone. We had to make ourselves stop eating more and wait for our main courses but we really didn't want to stop!! The main courses arrived and we didn't think it could get any better! The pizza and pasta were absolutely delicious. The different spritz's were also gorgeous! Everything was 10/10 and I cannot wait to get back to Croft Alley again. To top off a lovely experience, we went into the pub next door for a drink and one of the staff members from Croft Alley dropped in our leftover pizza in pizza boxes for us to bring home! Amazing service all round!

28/05/2025: Fabulous place for sushi, Asian dishes. My son, who swims on a regular basis, loves to recharge with a huge selection of sushi dishes. Food is top quality and reasonably priced. Well worth a visit.

23/05/2025: First of all - review is about take-away order. It's a pretty nice Sushi. However, it is better to add €2-3 to the price instead of reducing the amount of filling in Sushi. Previously there was less amount of rice and more filling. You can see in the photos that the amount of rice/filling isn't balanced. Too much rice :( However, still a great place to eat-in or order a takeaway.

10/05/2025: Staff and drinks are always amazing, highly recommend!!

30/03/2025: Vibe bar is a trendy spot, great music and very reasonably priced drinks. The staff were really friendly and sound - very accommodating to any requests. Didn't have food here, I don't think (?) they serve food. There's a Pool Table (€2 per game), Darts Board, retro 2-player arcade machine and some really good tunes. I'll be going back for a day-time session with friends

04/06/2025: The coffee was amazing. I had a decaf latte with coconut milk and caramel. Truly enjoyed it.The staff were also very polite and friendly. Wish there were bigger sizes of cups though :)

27/05/2025: The coffee is the best you’ll get in portlaoise by a mile. Staff is nice and the atmosphere is good

22/04/2025: Great little bar. Pool table and juke box . Live music at weekends.

21/06/2025: This hands down has to be one of the worst experiences I've had while dining out. My partner and I went to Kelly's steakhouse on Friday night. My partner who is vegan called ahead of time to double check to see if their vegan menu was still in rotation. She was told yes, their vegan menu was. Upon arriving we were told that several items from the menu were not available that evening. Ok no big deal. She's not a fussy eater. She settled on the vegan carbonara. Double checked with the waitress to see if it was indeed vegan. She was instructed yes it was. When it arrived it certainly looked great. But looked a little off. She then asked the waitress s second time if it was vegan. And once again told yes, it is completely vegan. So my partner began to taste it. Only for the waitress to come out saying that it wasn't vegan and that there was dairy in it!!! Dairy makes my partner feel very sick! Like really sick. All of this was happening while I was told my order would be at least 10mins longer as the waitress took my order wrong and had to wait for my chicken to be prepared again. We paid for the drinks we had and left. I'd honestly give zero stars if I could

18/06/2025: Lovely place great staff will definitely be back

14/06/2025: Sadly won't be going here again. It used to be such a great spot and the service was incredible (about 3 years ago) but the last 2 times we've gone we were left waiting for over an hour for food and trying to get the attention of service staff was horrific and one of these times we were the only ones there... Absolutely horrific service and the food is really not worth it anymore!

14/06/2025: I would recommend this place if you only want drinks. The sevice was non existant and the food did not match the price. Half a basket of fries and a tiny burger for 18 euro! I will not be returning.