Bia Baile@Murphy Blacks Restaurant, Kilkee.

This attractive restaurant is housed in a Victorian building and the owners, Cillian Murphy and Mary Redmond, have been careful to retain its period features. Menus lean towards seafood – specialties include crab tartlet and cannelloni of plaice – but meat eaters are well catered for too, and there is always a vegetarian choice. Desserts are homemade, and a balanced, accessibly-priced wine list includes a good choice of half-bottles.

Open Mon-Sat, 6-9pm (weekends only October-May). Seats 42 (outdoors 12); children welcome. Commendations: Georgina Campbell; McKennas’ Guide.

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 6854 / Web: www.murphyblacks.ie

Naughton’s Steak and Seafood, Kilkee.

Naughton’s is a sensitively-modernised 1870s pub and restaurant owned by Elaine Haugh and her husband, chef Robert Hayes.

Styled a Fish and Steak Bar, the accent is on seafood, and on simplicity, with seven starters and seven seafood choices offered, plus five meat dishes, and more seafood specials each night. There’s a children’s menu and a small but carefully chosen wine selection. Food is served from 5.30pm, and the restaurant is open for lunch in the high season. Fully wheelchair accessible.

Commendations: Georgina Campbell

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 6597 / Email:

web: naughtonsbar.com

The Long Dock Pub and Restaurant, Carrigaholt.

The Diamond Rocks Café, Kilkee.

The Diamond Rocks is a beautifully-situated restaurant and cafe with spectacular views over Kilkee Bay, the cliffs and the natural rock formation that gives the Diamond Rocks Café its name. Pizzas are a specialty of the house, but a variety of starters, main courses and home-made desserts is also available. Breakfast is served between 9am and midday.

The café is open from June to September, and on weekends all year round, with seating for 120 people. Take-away foods are also available.

Phone: +353 (0)65 908 3812

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The Strand Bistro and Guesthouse, Kilkee.

The Strand Bistro is a fully-licensed restaurant with views over Kilkee Bay. Proprietors Johnny and Caroline Redmond are the fourth generation of a family who have been in the hospitality and catering business in Kilkee for almost 160 years. Freshly-caught seafood is a Strand specialty. The bistro is known for its seafood chowder, smoked salmon, steamed mussels and tiger prawns, as well as for a range of meat dishes.

The Strand is open from 11am to 9.30pm. Packed lunches and picnics are available. Commendations: Georgina Campbell

Phone +353 (0)65 905 6177/ +353 (0)86 263 8251

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Web: www.thestrandkilkee.com

The Pantry Café and Deli, O’Curry Street, Kilkee.

The Pantry Café, Deli and Cookery School was established in 1982 by home economics teacher Imelda Bourke, and since then has earned a reputation as one of Kilkee’s best food emporia, right in the heart of town.

The café is open from Easter to the end of September and offers breakfast from 8.30am, as well as lunch, soups, salads and sandwiches. All the menus feature local home-made produce and cater for coeliacs. A selection of wines is also available, including half-bottles.

Commendations: Georgina Campbell; McKennas’ Guide; Lonely Planet

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 6576/ +353 (0)86 238 9996

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Web: http://www.pantrykilkee.ie/

Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee.

Run by Ann Haugh and family, serves wholesome food based on local ingredients, which can be enjoyed on a sunny verandah overlooking Kilkee Bay.

Chef Kevin Hanley and his team use local producers for all seafood, while the meat for the restaurant’s signature steak dishes is supplied by Ann’s husband Martin, an award-winning local victualler. The Stella Maris has become famous for its home baking, such as brown soda bread, scones, apple tarts and homemade marmalade.

Commendations: Georgina Campbell; McKennas’ Guide

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 6455 / +353 (0)87 747 0107

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Web: stellamarishotel.com

Glencarrig B&B, Carrigaholt.

Guests at Mary’s B&B (part of the Fish and Stay experience) can look forward to a hearty breakfast made by an exceptionally skilled baker and cook. Choices include the Full Irish, French toast and maple syrup, Granola with fruit and yoghurt, or fresh mackerel. You can also buy her homemade bread and jam to take home.

Phone: +353 (0)86 074 8131

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The Old School B&B, Cross.

Breakfast is served in one of the old classrooms at the Old School. It consists of a traditional Irish grill with rashers, sausages, black and white pudding, free range eggs and tomatoes, or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. All meat is supplied by Haugh’s award-winning victuallers in Kilkee.

Phone: +353 (0)65 670 3666/  +353 (0)86 154 9402

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The Pier Restaurant, Hickies Bay View, Kilkee.

The Pier Restaurant serves an array of excellent food in intimate and tastefully decorated surroundings, with some tables having stunning sea views.

Menus offer a large selection  of local fresh seafood, succulent steak and chicken dishes delivered daily to the kitchen from locally sourced producers.

Seafood dishes include locally caught  crab, lobster, Seabass as well as daily fish specials.

Early bird menu also available as well as a comprehensive wine list.

Phone: +353 (0)65 9056058 / Web: www.bayviewkilkee.com

Keating’s Bar & Restaurant, Kilbaha.

Keating’s Bar & Restaurant, billed as the nearest pub to New York, has both indoor and outdoor seating overlooking Kilbaha Bay and the busy fishing pier.

Fresh bar food is served all day, including seafood chowder, crab claws, smoked salmon salad, stuffed chicken, sirloin and minute steaks, deep-fried cod. Cakes and scones are also served, with tea or freshly-ground connoisseur’s coffee.

Free wifi is available for patrons, and you can be assured of the friendliest of welcomes from proprietors Bernie and Helen Keating.

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 8009

Email: 

Web: www.keatingsbar.com

Mary O’s Bakery at Glencarrig B&B, Carrigaholt.

Mary supplies her home-baked foods, including her legendary cupcakes, muffins, sponges and sticky toffee pudding with toffee sauce, all over Loop Head. Guests at her B&B can look forward to the tastiest of treats, and you can even order a birthday or anniversary cake to be ready on your arrival.

Phone: +353 (0)86 074 8131

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The Pantry Deli, Café and Cookery School, Kilkee.

The Pantry Deli and Bakery, around the corner from the café, has a full selection of sweet and savoury dishes, made using all local produce. The Pantry can take the stress out of your catering plans and supply gourmet dishes to your home.

Phone: +353 (0)65 905 7576/ +353 (0)86 238 9996

Email:

Web: thepantrykilkee.com

Deirdre Daly’s Artisan Bakery

Small bakery corner in this Early till Late convenience store, that is devoted to the baking of Deirdre Daly.

11 O’Connell Street, Kilkee, County Clare

Phone:  + 353 (0) 65 905 6075. Open daily.

Carmel's Home Bakery & Coffee Dock, The Irish House, O'Curry Street, Kilkee.

Home bakery corner in the Irish House, O’Curry Street, Kilkee providing traditional home made breads, cakes and confectionery, 

Phone:  + 353 (0) 65 905 6466. Open daily.

Hayes Gala Foodstore, O'Connell Street, Kilkee.

Hickies Victuallers, O'Connell Street, Kilkee.

Hickies Vituallers is a family owned and run butchers located in O’Connell Street, Kilkee and prides itself on the high quality of its meats, which include chicken fillets, sausages, burgers, pork loins and steaks.

Open Daily.

Tel: + 353 (0) 65 9056027