Restaurant in Kenmare ?

digzy

I'm staying in Kenmare for a few days with the oh and a 2 yr old.
Just looking for recommendations in Kenmare for eateries. Was in a place this evening -poor enough- so was a bit disappointed.

Don't wanna break any rules so pm is welcome too...

Singer73

No. 35 is great.
There is a great pizza place too!

Tony Beetroot

digzy wrote: »

Don't wanna break any rules so pm is welcome too...

What was the restaurant, might help other people to avoid it in looking for a restaurant.

careful_now

I've eaten in Charcoal Steakhouse a few times. Really nice

callee

It depends on what you're looking for
Bella Vitae was good, but I had a bad experience recently
Packies very good, expensive
Lime tree very good, expensive
Landsdowne good
Mews, Charcoal closed down, haven't been yet
Rose Garden changed hands
Poffs recently opened good for breakfast, haven't tried anything else
Kid friendly, most of them are but some are more comfotable, better suited: Poffs, Landsdowne, Bella vitae (see above), Davitts.
Lunch is good in the Purple Heather and Jams

Recently places have closed and or changed hands, and no necessarily for the better.
Currently there is nowhere suitable for coeliacs, that I have found, in Kenmare and you'd need to travel to KIllarney or Sneem.

digzy

Was in pakies last night. Good but a bit steep. Going to number 35 tomorrow. What's it like?

delahuntv

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

What was the restaurant, might help other people to avoid it in looking for a restaurant.

But restaurant meals are very subjective - what one person doesn't like another may love.

If you stuck my wife into an all steak restaurant, she'd hate every minute of it - likewise, if I had to suffer a vegetarian restaurant, I'd wouldn't be happy. (I'll suffer it now and then! )

Hence always best not to name a place as it leaves boards / posters open to defamation.

Tony Beetroot

delahuntv wrote: »

Hence always best not to name a place as it leaves boards / posters open to defamation.

Shouldn't alllow restaurants to be recommended either going with that logic, the other restaurant thread where we can give lovely reviews yet not allow say anything bad about a restaurant, a joke.
Are the people who are giving recommendations and praising restaurants owners or connected with them that are free advertising?

bigbrotherfan

I was in No. 35 once and I would say it was good. There's an olde world feel to the place.

Boom__Boom

Sister was in the Boathouse a while back - was raving about it.

316

Boom__Boom wrote: »

Sister was in the Boathouse a while back - was raving about it.

Dung

delahuntv

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Shouldn't alllow restaurants to be recommended either going with that logic, the other restaurant thread where we can give lovely reviews yet not allow say anything bad about a restaurant, a joke.
Are the people who are giving recommendations and praising restaurants owners or connected with them that are free advertising?

A bad review can damage a restaurant's business - a good review can't.

Even critics that give "bad" reviews can have defamation actions taken against them unless they can professionally back up their writing.

Very easy to see through false good reviews.

A restaurant meal can be very subjective - what one person may find not appealing, another may find fab.

However in review land people who want to complain usually go over the top and want to "punish" the place - just read the muck on TripAdvisor - thankfully TripAdvisor has hundreds of thousands of users so it's easy to get a good overall view, but a place like boards doesn't have the user count to ensure fairness