The Best Seafood Near Great Southern Killarney, by the Record

The daily menu changes with whatever the West Cork boats bring in, and the kitchen runs a fin-to-gill policy that turns off-cuts into something worth fighting over. This compact, lively seafood spot on Oliver Plunkett Street earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand without the prices that usually follow that kind of attention. International touches keep the fish from feeling dutiful. Come early, come hungry, and prepare to be elbow-to-elbow with half of Cork doing the same.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The dining room sits on the ground floor of Dunmore House Hotel, and the windows line up almost perfectly with Clonakilty Bay. This is a seafood restaurant in the full coastal sense, with lobster pulled from nearby Galley Head waters and vegetables grown in the hotel's own organic kitchen garden. The cooking is unfussy and direct, which turns out to be the right call when the ingredients are making this much of an argument for themselves.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant