The best restaurants in Waterford

06/09/2025: Really good. Where a kg of mussels means a kg of mussels! Lively food all round.

24/08/2025: One of my favourite restaurants in Waterford. I had a lovely meal there Friday evening with my daughter for a special occasion. The food was delicious as always. The staff are very friendly, welcoming and helpful. Highly recommend Espresso for eat in or take away.

02/07/2025: We had an absolutely amazing time at The Great Escape in their 90's Video Store Room. The room itself had some puzzle aspects that we haven't seen in other rooms so it felt super fresh. Mark was our host and he was super friendly. I can't recommend this escape room enough!

23/05/2025: A fantastic day with the family, really layed out with easy and hard clues. Nice friendly staff and located in the heart of the City.

23/11/2025: A mixed platter. We stayed at The Tannery for two nights. We were attracted by the promise of excellent food, so booked in to eat on both evenings. Or at least we thought we had, as it soon became apparent that they had lost our dinner bookings. To the full credit of the staff they did rectify this quite quickly. The room was great but the sound proofing was shockingly poor. The couple next door would be embarrassed if they knew just how much we now know about them. On the first night the food was very good and our waitress was a gem. Not so on the second evening. We both reordered the crab brulee,as we had so enjoyed it the night before. Big mistake, it was curdled and lacking crab. The mains were an even bigger disappointment as they were totally lacking in flavour, to the point I began to question if I could have covid. When the young waiter came to clear the plates, asked if everything was OK, I said, actually, both mains were terribly bland, to which he looked at my empty plate and rolled his eyes. Not an acceptable response. We came for fine dining,this was mediocre comfort food and oh so disappointing. Has The Tannery become too complacent ? Needless to say, no one followed up on my comment to the young waiter, either that evening, or the next morning.

14/09/2025: Just back from a lovely 2 night stay in the townhouse. The bedroom was lovely. The dinner was a really lovely treat, staff very nice and service was excellent. Breakfast was beautiful. Only 1 issue- you check in at the restaurant and the townhouse is accross the road from it. I think that might be useful to have on the website and also limited parking close to the townhouse. Dungarven a lovely place to visit with lots of pubs and great food choices. The tannery is very central. Visit Merrys & Nagles for drinks. Dun for pastries and Isabelles place for quirky shopping. All within a few mins walk of the tannery.

16/06/2025: Fantastic atmosphere with live music, even on a Sunday. Jam on Thursdays is supposed to be an experience.

28/07/2025: Let my nephew in after 9.00pm. Myself and my brother couldn't get in anywhere else, so respect to The Old Forge Bar. No we were on holidays by the way.

30/08/2025: Food ok, long wait times, room too loud and had a bad smell. Large group beside us yelling and not told to quite down

11/08/2025: Amazing thai food reasonably priced. We ordered mixed starter, soup and pad thai along with the duck curry. Beautiful food and a beautiful setting.

03/10/2025: Just a great place so friendly and fun place to visit

24/05/2025: Very friendly Couldn't fault it.

24/10/2025: I love their food, I have to confess that. Their coffee is amazing and high quality, and the food is all tasty, especially the acai bowl and sandwich. In the sandwich, there are really nice veggie pickles which are a sweet and sour blend perfectly. Highly recommend.

11/09/2025: they serve amazing coffee and quick bites, love it