Lunchtime food on the way from Dublin to Ballyvaughan

Dubl07

Hi guys

I'm travelling down to Clare in a couple of weeks and wondered where locals might recommend between Galway and Kinvara for a lunchtime break. Decent food at realistic prices, parking, view.

Thanks!

rainbowdash

Not in Clare but I find O'Connells to be pretty good, its just off the motorway at Annacotty before Limerick, clean, modern and well run.

Its a converted mill building.

www.oconnellsbar.ie

rainbowdash

Of course I then see you are travelling via Galway so forget that, can't help!

bmm

rainbowdash wrote: »

Not in Clare but I find O'Connells to be pretty good, its just off the motorway at Annacotty before Limerick, clean, modern and well run.

Its a converted mill building.

www.oconnellsbar.ie

i think ur confused . The converted mill is called "The Mill Bar Annacotty" . http://www.menupages.ie/limerick/limerick_central/annacotty/the_mill_bar#.UYuvsfIk3Ic


The venue O'Connells is in the Newtown Park centre close to Castletroy college secondary school. Was called Synnotts some years ago.

maryb26

Drive for another 15-20 minutes beyond Kinvara and go to Linnanes of New Quay. Eat the freshest fish overlooking the sea. Busy there at weekends. After lunch drive or walk along the flaggy shore before rejoining the main road. (See Seamus Heany poem The Flaggy Shore)

Dubl07

Annacotty's out of the question even though they look good. We're taking the M6 and dropping south.

We've eaten in the Pier House in Kinvara before so it's our fallback position. I just wondered what regular travellers to the area or locals might suggest. A change can be enjoyable.

Dubl07

Thanks, Mary. Linnane's is already earmarked for a meal during our stay - we enjoyed it a couple of years ago. Any other ideas?

Nevermind_

morans on the weir in Kilcolgan is on your way to Kinvarra.
great food but not the cheapest
www.moransoystercottage.com/‎

Lady Chatterton

Linnanes and Moran's are two of my favourite places to eat.

Sitting outside eating lobster and drinking a nice chilled white wine on a sunny day = heaven

Lady Chatterton

maryb26 wrote: »

After lunch drive or walk along the flaggy shore before rejoining the main road. (See Seamus Heany poem The Flaggy Shore)

Slightly off topic!

I love that Heaney poem, especially the last two lines....

Postscript

And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightening of flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully-grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you'll park or capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open

Seamus Heaney

Dubl07

Moran's it is! Thank you.