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Best X (things) in Galway

dinneenp · 2010-02-21 00:59:14

Hi, this thread might fail but Zill give it a shot idea us to list the best things in whatever categories you like. Try to number each category. To make it easier to reference. 1. BEST PIZZA milano. Thin, lovely toppings. Can't be beat I think. 2. BEST PINT OF MURPHYS Neaughtons.

21-02-2010 12:59am

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Hi,
this thread might fail but Zill give it a shot
idea us to list the best things in whatever categories you like.
Try to number each category. To make it easier to reference.
1. BEST PIZZA
milano. Thin, lovely toppings. Can't be beat I think.

2. BEST PINT OF MURPHYS
Neaughtons.

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#2 21-02-2010 1:18pm

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dinneenp wrote: »

1. BEST PIZZA
milano. Thin, lovely toppings. Can't be beat I think.

And enjoy a "2 main courses for €15" until mid-March: http://www.milanooffers.ie/ - makes it great value imho, just don't buy any wine!

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#3 21-02-2010 6:09pm

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They also have a loyalty card- every 4th pizza free!

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#4 21-02-2010 9:26pm

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"1. BEST PIZZA
milano. Thin, lovely toppings. Can't be beat I think.

2. BEST PINT OF MURPHYS
Neaughtons."

3. BEST PLAYGROUND
The one on Doughiska Road.

4. BEST GUINNESS
Murphys (open to argument?)

5. BEST SOUP
Cafe Luna's roasted veg soup - yum!

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#5 21-02-2010 10:49pm

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Best Daytime Pub - Tig Ceolis

Best Early Evening Pub - Neachtains

Best Weekend Footie Pub - Krcma (Salthill)

Best Fry - Tricia's Cafe

Best Fast Food - Vinnies

Best Street Character - AntiSanta

Best Docked Boat - Celtic Explorer

Best Historical Feature - Lynch's window

Best Bookshop - Charlie Byrnes

Best Coffee - Arabica (Dominic Street)

Best Pizza - Bistro Bianconi

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#6 21-02-2010 11:47pm

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+1 on: Best Fry - Tricia's Cafe

SAVAGE:D

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#7 22-02-2010 11:08am

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Best pint of Guinness
Neachtains or Murphys

Best Pizza
Monroes

Best Sandwich
Providence

Best Fry
Trishas

Best Indian
Eastern Tandoori

Best Cake
McCambridges

Best looking men
The Roisin

Best Music
The Roisin

Best place for Sunday pints
The Salthouse

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#8 22-02-2010 2:08pm

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Where is Tricia's Cafe?

BEST 'INDIE' MUSIC'- backroom, Roisín Dúbh

Best cycle- Out Rahoon Road (past cemetry) and within 2 mintues it's very quiet rural Galway. Along the backroads and down the big hill to Barna.

BEST PLACE TO RELAX FOR AFTERNOON, READ PAPER ETC- either G hotel or House Hotel. (both have very big relaxing couches, free newspapers to read...

BEST PLACE TO PARK (paying) by the cathedral (€5 all day) or the school car park by Nuns Island.

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#9 22-02-2010 2:17pm

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Best Steak - Cajun Fillet Steak in McSwiggans.

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#10 22-02-2010 2:37pm

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[-0-] wrote: »

Best Steak - Cajun Fillet Steak in McSwiggans.

Complete;y agree...It's amazing..

Best take away tea/coffee
Cafe Luna and it's only 2 quid!

Best spot for food, drinks, decent smoking area, atmosphere
The Cottage, Salthill

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#11 22-02-2010 3:13pm

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Best Guinness - Murty Rabbits

Best Daytime Pub - Taafes

Best Early Evening Pub - Dew Drop

Best Weekend Footie Pub - Dew Drop (just in the habit )

Best Fry - Kelehans

Best Fast Food - New York Pizza

Best Bookshop - Charlie Byrnes

Best Coffee - Javas

Best Pizza - Monroes

Best Place to relax for an Afternoon: Townhouse Bar

Best Steak: Oscars

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#12 22-02-2010 4:04pm

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dinneenp wrote: »

Where is Tricia's Cafe?

Abbeygate Street, next to the headshop/sexshop.:D

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#13 22-02-2010 4:44pm

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Forgive the double ups, am indecisive!

Best Daytime Pub - Neachtains/Townhouse

Best Early Evening Pub - Neachtains/Dáil

Best Sunday Pub: The Crane

Best 'On your way home JUST about keeping it together..but' pub - Massimos

Best Internet Café: Malt house arch

Best Fast Food - Vinnies or the codburger Supermacs (Newcastle or Cross St, none in Sq!)

Best Historical Feature - Lynch's Castle

Best Bookshop - Charlie Byrnes

Best Chowder - Front Door/Dáil

Best Coffee - Zatsuma crepes

Best Indian: Eastern Tandoori (*ducks*!)

Best Pizza - Bistro Bianconi

Best long quiet walk - Backroads to Barna from town (or cycle as dineep said)

Best Free Enterprise - 'Wine man' on Dominic St, heading off the buyers with his cooler before they hit the usual wine** spot!

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#14 22-02-2010 4:51pm

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Best late bar - Front door

Best pint of Guinness/ best auld mans pub - Garavans

Best pizza - Monroes

Best night club - Halo

Best breakfast roll - Petrol station beside court yard marriot

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#15 22-02-2010 5:29pm

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Best mocha: Butlers!

Best pizza: The new place on Cross St. Across from Kettle of Fish I think. Way better than Monroes/Pizza Pizza! And cheap too.

Best Indian: Eastern Tandoori definitely.

Best clothes shop: Penney's, the shop where you can afford everything!

Best 'local' restaurant: The Abbey, Claregalway. Seriously recommend it. (Actually, probably best restaurant in general.)

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#16 22-02-2010 9:08pm

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Best Guinness: Mchughs Pub in castlegar(on N17)

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#17 22-02-2010 10:02pm

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1.Best pinnt of guinness: Taaffes

2.Best daytime pub:Taaffes

3.Best auld lads pub:Taaffes

4.Best weekend pub: Taaffes

5.Best bar food:Taafes

6.Best late bar:Front door

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#18 22-02-2010 10:35pm

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Best Guinness: Taafes/Freeneys

Best Daytime pub: Townhouse

best sunday pub: crowes

Best Late bar: Front door

best pub grub: crowes

best club: halo

best pizza: milanos

best indian: haldi spice

best italian: al muretto

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#19 23-02-2010 12:43pm

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best chocolate cake: Milanos (and ask for scope of ice cream and extra choc sauce with it). Cake is just right- not dry, moist and lots of filling.

Best shoe shop: Logues

Best bread: Gormet Tart Company

best milkshake: either Eddie Rockets or the one in Eyre Square Shopping Center

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#20 23-02-2010 12:53pm

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The Prom on a sunny day

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#21 23-02-2010 8:38pm

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great idea

best hot chocolate - Goya's.

best lasagne - bethlehem

best pints (excluding guinness) - the huntsman

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#22 23-02-2010 9:29pm

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(like all items) it's personnal preference. The hot choc in goyas is very big BUT very expensive and too thin for me. I like thick, Italian style. G hotel used to have great one but changed.
The small place (next to Crepe shop, 2 doors down fron Eason) does lovely hot choc. Well worry a try and cheap

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#23 23-02-2010 9:36pm

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Best Pub - Townhouse/Dew Drop/

Best Late pub: Massimos- by a mile!

Best Fast Food - Not really fast food in the trad sense, but cant beat the crepes in Zatsuma or the Falafel stand on saturdays down at the market

Best Historical Feature - Aula Maxima- NUIG

Best Bookshop - Charlie Byrnes

Best Indian: Tulsi

Best Pizza - Milanos or pizza n pints in Monroes

Best long quiet walk - The walk from NUIG to Newcastle, by the river

Best Eaterie- Spudhouse Newcastle

Best clothes shop- Penneys- you can always find something, no matter the budget

Best way to spend a afternoon- no money required!: Library in city centre, walk from spanish arch to salthill, browsing around charlie Byrnes, saturday market.

Best Sunday pub: The cottage

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#24 22-06-2010 5:45pm

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Looking for opinions on...

The best butchers
The best greengrocer
The best general supermarket
The best fishmongers
The best bar food
The best value early bird

Really sick of the fruit and veg selections in eg. Dunnes with all its chlorine bagged salad leaves etc. Is there any really good greengrocer in Galway with interesting stuff like eg. the Steve's leaves they do in Sheridans, or moderately priced good quality herbs...with a selection extending past parsley and basil!

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#25 22-06-2010 5:50pm

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I'll give a recommendation for bar food:

Bar No. 8 @ The Docks.
Their new 25 mile menu idea is great (everything sourced within 25 miles). I got a mezze platter(bread, hummus, salads etc) and chips in there and both were amazing. Menu isn't your normal soup, garlic mushrooms etc. I'm really impressed to see somewhere doing something different and it wasn't very expensive either. Also got two small truffles of some sort which had a lot of alcohol in them but were delish...And I have to say they have the best chips in Galway.

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A lot will depend on what you are looking for

The best butchers - Feericks in Newcastle
The best greengrocer - Terryland F&V
The best general supermarket - Meh, Tesco, Dunnes, etc, not much diff
The best fishmongers - The one in the GC isnt bad, alternatively there's 2 in Ballybane ind est and theres always Galway seafood down by the docks
The best bar food - depends what you want, mc Swiggans isnt bad
The best value early bird - no clue, I work evenings so I never get to have early birds

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#27 22-06-2010 7:11pm

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My family has been using Collerans Butchers for years. Also try Ernie Deacy's on Sea Road for fruit and veg.

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#28 22-06-2010 7:23pm

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The best greengrocer
- Terryland F&V

The best general supermarket
- Tesco for stocking stuff the others don't
- Lidl/Adli for bringing prices down

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#29 22-06-2010 9:27pm

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JustMary wrote: »

The best greengrocer
- Terryland F&V

+1

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#30 22-06-2010 9:30pm

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The Butcher counter at Joyce's supermarket is actually quite good.

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#31 22-06-2010 9:41pm

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The best butchers - Collerans Mainguard St or Galway SC (Tonerys?)
The best greengrocer - Deacys Sea Rd
The best general supermarket - Londis Fr Griffin Rd
The best fishmongers - Eyre Sq Centre (can't rem name - they're new)
The best bar food - haven't a clue
The best value early bird - even less

Butchers, greengrocers & fishmongers are a dying breed unfortunately. Good to see people looking for them.

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#32 22-06-2010 9:44pm

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trish23 wrote: »

Butchers, greengrocers & fishmongers are a dying breed unfortunately. Good to see people looking for them.

I disagree, i think they are starting to appear again.
People are looking for good quality food at good prices and finding them in the mentioned shops

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#33 22-06-2010 9:46pm

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The best butchers - market in Oranmore every Thursday, can't remember his name.

The best general supermarket - no such thing, bits and pieces from 'em all

The best bar food - I'm a sucker for Monroes' pizzas

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#34 22-06-2010 10:02pm

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amiable wrote: »

I disagree, i think they are starting to appear again.
People are looking for good quality food at good prices and finding them in the mentioned shops

Yes, I agree, you can definitely find good quality & prices in all of these. But consumers are also into convenience & if that means buying their meat & veg in the local supermarket then so be it! Once upon a time you could find a good local butcher in every suburb in Galway. That day is long gone.

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#35 23-06-2010 6:57am

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Best ice cream? (it is summer after all)

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#36 23-06-2010 7:35am

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Jugs82 wrote: »

Best Guinness - Murty Rabbits

Best Daytime Pub - Taafes

Best Early Evening Pub - Dew Drop

Best Weekend Footie Pub - Dew Drop (just in the habit )

Best Fry - Kelehans

Best Fast Food - New York Pizza

Best Bookshop - Charlie Byrnes

Best Coffee - Javas

Best Pizza - Monroes

Best Place to relax for an Afternoon: Townhouse Bar

Best Steak: Oscars

Your taking the piss?

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#37 23-06-2010 8:15am

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Cathal01, I merged your thread with the recent Best Stuff thread.

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#38 23-06-2010 7:45pm

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Your taking the piss?

Or drinking it

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#39 25-06-2010 11:01am

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just had a "slice" of pizza in the Napoli shop (next door to Yes Flowers on Cross Street). the nicest pizza I ever tasted - they have whatever "flavour" slice you want, pepperoni, mushroom, ham, pineapple. The Slices are about the size of a small personal pizza and so yummy

check it out.

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#40 20-01-2011 1:36pm

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I have created a new thread summarising results (didn't include everything) here

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#41 20-01-2011 4:15pm

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Where to get the best big breakfast when in town starving in the morning, i mean the works now

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Best Supermarket Experience - Mc Cambridges, Joyce's, Mortons Salthill (for those who are tired of the usual supermarket brands..and for those who care for local produce too).

Best Fruit & Veg Selection - Terryland Fruit and Veg Shop (great lil place next to it for inexpensive spices and asian/indian food too including unusual fish, prawns, craps etc).

Best Take out Coffee - The Chocolate Box/Butlers/the one on the corner near Fuji which serves Lavazza (name unknown).

Best Cafe - Sweetie Pies (cupcake heaven)

Best Chocolates - Butlers or Leonidas (Corbett Court/Eyre Square Centre)

Best Cakes/Desserts - Gourmet Tarts Company (eat in or take out) or Mortons Salthill (take home)

Best Indian - Kumars

Best Chips - Vinnies, McDonaghs

Best Pizza - Milanos, Fat Freddies

Best Bar Food - Lohan's Salthill (though must admit their staff have let us down on last 2 trips, small things like forgetting drinks we ordered).

Best Daytime/Evening Pub - Quays

Best Nighttime Pub - Sonnys, Skeff

Best Flowers - Yes Flowers (the shop in itself is an experience, excellant staff/owner)

Best Free Things to Do - Walk the Salthill prom, Browse book shops (Charlie Byrnes)

Best Pet Store/Shop Selection - Pet World, Terryland though staff at the Galway Pet Store (Quay St?) are extra helpful.

Best Taxi Company - Big O

Best Lunch/People-Watching Spot - Eyre Square (bit of a duh)

Best Sandwich - GBC, Mustard or O'Briens

Best Cinema - Eye

Would be interested to hear suggestions for Best Art Gallery, more Best Free Things to Do, Best View (sunset over Galway Bay/Salthill maybe?), Best (Paid) Things to Do... I'm still relatively new up here, this thread is great! Will be checking out many of the places recommended!

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#43 24-02-2011 11:21pm

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best full irish.
Homeplate.
no contest!

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#44 25-02-2011 8:13pm

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Best Pizza

Sadly, Bistro Bianconi has shut. They really had amazing Pizza, and seemed to be doing well, I thought. I don't know what happened, but it's a pity.

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#45 13-06-2011 5:53pm

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best deli .. mCcambridges

best ass .. lady who walks down william street between 8.20/8.25 am mon-fri

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#46 13-06-2011 6:19pm

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Your taking the piss?

No he's drinking it

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#47 14-06-2011 8:51am

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Best potatoes: Couch Potatas

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#48 03-10-2013 1:17pm

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navigator wrote: »

Best potatoes: Couch Potatas

recently been in Galway, and discovered it no longer exists

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