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Recommend a plush restaraunt...

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  • 20-05-2011 12:17pm
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    kormak
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks...
    myself & wifey will be celebrating our 1st wedding anniversery soon enough and will be dining out in Galway city.
    Can some of you good folk recoomend a tasy eatery (preferably close to town) for our night.
    Been to Cactus Jacks before, lovely spot but would like to try something different and new!! :D:D

    Thanks a mil,

    C


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    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    I'd highly recommend Oscars in Dominick st or alternatively Vina Mara on Augustine Street. You won't do much better than either of those - maximum brownie points are guaranteed :pac:


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    s_carnage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    Upstairs in McSwiggans. Cajun steak is to die for!!


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    tribesman78
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭tribesman78


    Have to agree on Oscars especially if its just the two of ye. Very intimate place and well suited to smaller groups from 2 -6 people. Mcswiggins can be very hit and miss, its either excellent meal or average meal.


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    alibabba
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭alibabba


    I know you said galway city, but if you can get to the White Gables in moycullen, you wont get plusher than that in Co Galway.

    Book early though


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    kormak
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭kormak


    Thanks for all your tips everyone.
    It looks like Oscars is the place hitting the high notes with some of the reviews online...
    I might give it a try... now to find a reasonably priced fancy pants hotel! :p


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    galah
    Registered Users Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Connemara Coast out in Furbo has fantastic food as well. Maybe a bit too 'hotel-y', but I cannot recommend it highly enough! (it's our anniversary and spcial occasion place of choice ;-))

    Or Vina Mara!


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    gaeilgegrinds1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭gaeilgegrinds1


    Gourmet Tart, Oscars or Vina Mara.


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    ValerieR
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭ValerieR


    Royal Villa in Salthill (above the Aquarium) or O'Grady's on the Pier in Barna.

    Enjoy your meal and Happy Anniversary :)

    Valerie


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    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    kormak wrote: »
    Recommend a plush restaraunt...
    s_carnage wrote: »
    Upstairs in McSwiggans.
    kormak wrote: »
    plush /pləSH/

    Adjective: Richly luxurious and expensive.

    Are you havin' a laugh or what?


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    pseudonym1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭pseudonym1


    New restaurant open on sea road not sure of the name but it is green and beside Jesuit church... was there last night the food is Devine.. I wouldn't call it plush but if you are looking for really amazing food and nice atmosphere it is a good bet.


    Cookes winebar is really nice and romantic,

    12 in Barna is good but may be a bit far out of town.

    The G has a fab retauraunt and hotel plus spa plus do some good on line deals afaik


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    Acidflash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Acidflash


    civis_liberalis wrote: »
    Are you havin' a laugh or what?

    There is a strange fascination with mcswiggans on here. People seem to talk about it as if it's a michelan starred restaurant. It's a f**king pub that serves decent pub food, nothing more.


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    pseudonym1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭pseudonym1


    OP Please don't bring your wife to McSwiggians for dinner for first anniversary check out link below.

    http://www.theghotel.ie/dining.html


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    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    I had a fabulous meal in the Malt House when I was in Galway.

    Would recommend it.


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    Head The Wall
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭Head The Wall


    Friends from Cork had a hen in McSwiggans a few weeks back and didn't have anything good to say about the food


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    Simarillion
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Simarillion


    Try either Kirwan's Lane in town or O'Grady on the Pier in Barna. They're both owned by the same person, but every meal I've had there has been top class and the service is also very good.


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    Shanley
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Shanley


    The Teppanyaki table in the forster court hotel is the business!


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    paulgalway
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭paulgalway


    Thai Garden Resturant in the Spanish Arch


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    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭RichT


    OP mentioned plush and something different.

    Went to the Pullman restaurant at Glenlo Abbey a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    http://www.pullmanrestaurant.com/


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    Eviledna
    Registered Users Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭Eviledna


    paulgalway wrote: »
    Thai Garden Resturant in the Spanish Arch

    I cannot disagree with this more. On may bank holiday weekend I had one of the worst dining experiences in there I've ever had. It used to be a decent place to go years ago, but it has really disimproved - we got unfriendly surly service, mediocre food and the desert was so bad I sent it back.

    Do not go there!

    I've often had a great experience in the twelve "west" restaurant in Barna, not quite galway city though. It's plush and the food and service are impeccible.


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    ValerieR
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    Just thought about the Park House Restaurant. It's very traditional food but really nice, portions are humongous and staff quite attentive.

    Valerie :)


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    OldAtHeart
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    The Malt House is top notch grub


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    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    OldAtHeart wrote: »
    The Malt House is top notch grub
    I hear this also, although have never been myself.


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    DRakE
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭DRakE


    a "plush" restaurant?!


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    majiktripp
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    RichT wrote: »
    OP mentioned plush and something different.

    Went to the Pullman restaurant at Glenlo Abbey a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    http://www.pullmanrestaurant.com/

    Was about to recommend the Pullman, if you want an plush dinner its the place to go, and it aint cheap but its bloody good.


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    mitsuko045
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭mitsuko045


    I recommend Millhouse Restaurant (Used to be called Mustard)
    Reasonable and YUM.

    Splashing out?
    Elwoods Bar and Grill.
    The food there is SPECTACULAR.


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    kormak
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭kormak


    Folks, don't worry!
    My wife is a Galwegian and would kill me if I brought her to McSwiggans on our anniversary.
    Nothing against the place though... lovely wee spot for a pint of plain on a Saturday evenin!
    So Oscars booked, I'm now thinking what cool activity stuff we could do for the afternoon...
    apart from the obvious; makin babies and such :P..
    anyone know of any quirky massage/holistic venues to go to in Galway city??


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