LIGИUM

A wood-fired tasting menu restaurant tucked into a modern barn conversion in rural Galway, the kind of place where someone has thought to put throws on the chairs and the fire is actually doing the cooking. The menu is a surprise, shaped by the chef's Irish and Italian roots, so Amalfi lemon might show up alongside Galway lobster. It holds a Michelin star, which makes the Scandinavian-barn-in-Connacht setting feel even more pleasantly unlikely.