The best restaurants in Ardee

06/07/2024: Amazing restaurant with amazing fresh wholesome food. Well worth the drive from Dublin. We should all be supporting our small local business working hard especially when they serve food like that ❤

30/06/2024: After a very successful lunch on a whim, we booked and came back for an evening meal to celebrate our anniversary. I am so happy we did, and will make the same booking next year. The food is outstanding. It seems there is generally a meat dish, a fish dish, and a vegetarian dish to choose from with sides that are in season. Staff are super friendly and full of advice. The wine is reasonably priced and served at the correct temperature. It's a great spot for couples, but they also cater to larger groups. I would not say the experience is expensive, but it's not cheap either. However, you definitely get what you pay for! Because the menu changes every fortnight, this is a place you can visit again and again and be consistently both surprised and satisfied. My new favourite restaurant.

03/02/2025: Lovely takeaway, great to be able to order online too.

15/11/2024: I ordered a kebab tray that was just ok,bit a smaller portion and ordered extra southern fried chicken breast that was very bad,l could make it better at home.just 3 stars from me

05/04/2025: Ordered for delivery, as I have countless times. Got rang and was told they don’t deliver to my address (9 mins away) which is nonsense. Guy at the counter was apologetic and I’m sorry I was argumentative dude. It’s not your fault. Food’s good as usual.

13/03/2025: The best pizza. The best dough. The best ingredients! Very nice service! I RECOMMEND

13/02/2025: Food fablous staff friendly a.d very helpful

01/01/2025: Class food and unreal service. Buzzin with it

19/04/2025: Lavender 🪻 Latte is my favourite. There is one barista who does brilliant art on the board.

27/03/2025: It is back to normal now no strange staff

08/03/2025: I have a disability and needed to use the toilet urgently. All other pubs, restaurants, and cafes in Ardee have always been understanding and respectful. Not so the Fairgreen bar. When I entered I looked for a staff member to request permission to use the toilet but to no avail. Nobody was at the bar or front of house when I entered. I proceeded to use the toilet, where I heard strange, loud, noises emanating from the rear of the establishment. Presumably from the woman (?) I later identified as a staff member and another gentleman (?), perhaps also a staff member. Maybe I had interrupted a private meeting of some kind but in any case, as I urinated the woman began yelling into the toilet “hello! Hello! Hello!” Bear in mind it was around noon and so the bar was not exactly heaving (presumably this is why staff members had abandoned their posts for the rear of the building, where they made strange noises). Having completed washing my hands I made to exit. As I approached the door I became aware of an extremely aggressive voice braying “love love how are ya love?” or something to that effect, and then racing after me the same woman (?) staffer screamed, her inappropriate and frankly bizarre anger now uncontrollable: “Are ya awright luv? Did ya ask permission luv?” And so on. Given how rude and threatening the behaviour of the bar staffer was, I instinctively reached for my phone in case the situation escalated further and I needed to contact gardai. Thankfully I managed to safely exit the bar and hurried to my car. I want to underline that this bizarre, agitated, exaggerated display is very atypical for Ardee. I’m not sure what scene I had just interrupted or what influences produced such an extreme meltdown from this dangerously unhinged individual, but I can assure you that I will never return to this desperately run venue. Avoid this dump with its non house-trained staff like the plague.

04/09/2024: Martina at Bliss, Ardee is an amazing skilled baker and a lovely lady. She made our wedding cake and it was beyond our expectations. As we had no idea what we wanted she met us at her lovely shop to discuss over excellent coffee. She helped guide us in our choice and we left the creative design to her. We were blown away on the day when a beautifully decorated cake was personally delivered to our venue and set up to perfection. It provided a lovely end to our wedding meal and enjoyed by our guests with ( thankfully) some left for us the following day. We can't thank Martina enough for the beautiful cake, her complete professionalism and being part of our fantastic day. Thank you Martina. Jennifer & Harry

10/07/2024: €9 for a slice of cheesecake and a cup of coffee, in Ardee! You would expect to pay that sitting outside on the Champs Elysee. Avoid, stop at a filling station. Response to owners: At the trivial level I feel that I was caught for a sucker, I’ll get over it and it won’t break me. At the more serious level any tourist who felt that they were similarly done over in Bliss is likely to avoid any other artisan tea rooms in the whole of Ireland. So one business that works to this business model will actually spoil things for so many other similar establishments. The cheesecake and coffee were fine but not exceptional. In any similar French town we see the pâtisserie and boulangerie. These businesses are typically family run and will have been in place for decades and will be still there well into the future. So many attempts at this in Ireland are nothing more than pop-up shops that last just a few years. I feel that crucial difference is that the French do it to make a living, many Irish do it to make a killing.