The best restaurants in Portlaoise

09/04/2025: ##NO STARS We ordered from Ruchi Portlaoise last night, and it was a disappointing experience. The delivery driver didn’t even call and gave our food to someone else in the opposite apartment. After 45 minutes of waiting, we called, and he kept repeating that he’d delivered it to ‘some lady,’ offering no apology. He first said he’d deliver replacement food tomorrow, but when we asked what we were supposed to eat at 10 PM (we ordered at 9pm) he agreed to reorder and deliver. The replacement arrived in 15 minutes, but the quality was awful. The spicy chicken wings were half-cooked, tasteless, and just dusted with chili powder. The makhani chicken had watery gravy with hard chicken pieces, and the naan was undercooked. The egg fried rice was the only decent item. I’d like to speak to the owner about this. Overall, terrible service and food—avoid unless they improve.

25/03/2025: Food is one of the best . Everything is delicious and would highly recommend.

22/01/2026: Great Irish owned fast food restaurant in the heart of Portlaoise. Conveniently located with its own car park. Friendly staff, lovely food and ample seating.

17/01/2026: Iv been to drive tru a few times . But this is my first time ordering and eating inside (super mac's). Ordered food then went to find a table altho there were a lot of tables empty. either tables full of ppls empty wrappers another table the floor was all wet from a drink falling on the ground . Another under the table the floor had all spilt food . Altho there was a girl who eventually came out and cleared the tables she never mopped up all the liquid on the floor nor did she sweep up the food under another ,think il stick to the drive tru

02/01/2026: Great food and nice place to come with friends or family. Don't think they pay much attention to what plays on the TV though. A movie that's definitely rated R movie was played while I was there with my 4 year old cousin. Had to distract her somehow.

22/11/2025: Order food at 12:11 and came at 13:30 just 2 medium pizza came cold and I really want a refund or compassion as this is the second time

11/01/2026: Delicious food served by wonderful staff. Highly recommend this restaurant 👌

22/09/2025: Great food great staff and atmosphere walk in service would recommend.

06/10/2025: €11 for a slice of dry carrot cake and a coconut latte that tasted nothing like coconut at all. A cup of warm water is what it tastes like. definitely gone down hill with coffees

05/10/2025: Used to be good spot but it is getting worse every week. On Sunday having coffee in single use cup for dining in is very bad. Also Autumn time and no flagship drink, I'd say it won't last long. One of the most expensive spot btw. Very disappointing.

31/08/2025: Serious quality, addictive food. Delivery time has always been satisfactory

06/08/2025: Really good food and generous portions!

17/01/2026: We've eaten out of here for as long as I can remember. For the last while everything seems to have changed a lot. While some of the food is still quite tasty, some meals have gone quite bland (chicken madras being one of them) The price changes have raised a lot and It seems they're going up all the time. There's not even any dips with poppadoms anymore. I'm not sure if it's been taken over. It's really disappointing because we would have normally eaten here every week but unfortunately it's no longer possible. I understand prices have gone up across the board but it seems prices here are constantly going up and like mentioned above, taking away some condiments when increasing prices is a little disappointing.

09/01/2026: From the iced water to the after eights offered with the bill, this was a delightful experience. The food was excellent, tasty and well cooked. Service was very attentive and friendly. Definitely recommend having a meal here.

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

04/01/2026: Had this reservation booked for my birthday and I was left completely disappointed. Food took an hour to come out after starters had been served. Staff were a little bit lost, there was multiple people serving our table, even offering us a desert menu when dinner had not been served yet. My partners burger came out soggy and just fell apart while eating. The salmon meal was mediocre with the potatoes being served lukewarm. A lot of the furnishings in the restaurant were also stained and just not looking pleasant. Overall not worth the prices charged here.

15/12/2025: Vanessa our waiter was cordial polite extremely professional and a wonderful experience to our evening meal. A true assit to your corporate culture of excellence.

27/01/2026: Terrible experience. Couldn't even get a starter and then a main!! All together or nothing what a joke. Go to Tullamore it's so nice, nice staff lovely food

21/01/2026: Our favourite take away in Portlaoise. Food is absolutely delicious

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.

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

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

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 .

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.