The Best Places to Eat Near Teach de Broc, by the Record
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Rank 1. Vaughans Anchor Inn
Seafood
The fish tank behind the bar is your first clue, and the walls covered in nautical odds and ends are your second. This old-school pub in the coastal village of Liscannor has been in the same family forever, and the kitchen leans hard into whatever came off the boats nearby. Lunch is straightforward; dinner gets a little more ambitious. The Michelin Guide has had it on the radar for years.
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Rank 3. Solas
Spanish
Spanish cooking made with Dingle's own catch and Kerry produce is the premise at this small, rustic restaurant on the harbor street of one of Ireland's most colorful little towns. The chef traveled through Spain before bringing those flavors home, and the menu sits close to the Spanish originals without pretending the Atlantic isn't right outside. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the prices stay honest. Service runs warm rather than formal.
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Chandeliers, wood panelling, and a glass terrace overlooking 850 acres of manor grounds set the tone before you've even unfolded your napkin. The Oak Room is the formal fine-dining restaurant inside Adare Manor, tasting menu only, and the kitchen leans into the setting with produce-driven courses and the occasional flourish of caviar. It holds a Michelin star. The wine list is long and takes the by-the-glass options seriously, which is a kindness at this altitude.
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Rank 5. 1826 Adare
Irish British
A thatched-roof cottage in a village that looks like it was designed by a tourism board, which somehow only makes the food better. This small restaurant leans into fine Irish produce, the kind of sourcing where the farms have names: Dooncastle oysters, Skeaghanore duck from West Cork. The room has the warmth of a place run by people who've been doing this a long time and stopped needing to prove it.
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A deconstructed fish pie, the local beef, the cocktail bar you can stop at or stay in: Mulcahys has been woven into Kenmare's social fabric long enough that the locals treat it like a living room with better wine. It's a full-service restaurant with a warm, lively room where the cooking leans classic and the seafood comes straight from Kerry waters. The kind of place where you sit down for one course and surface three hours later.
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Rank 8. Landline
Modern New American
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The Burren rolls up to the windows here, which is reason enough to ask for that table when you book. This is the dining room of a country house hotel, formal enough for candles and open fires, relaxed enough that nobody's stressed about it. The kitchen leans on its own kitchen gardens and local lamb that does its own convincing. Cosy bar, sitting rooms, the whole thing.