Walking in off the street we met Siobhan going back up to the restaurant from the bar with a drinks…read moreorder. With a welcoming smile she said "follow me" and we did. The décor is great. Modern and pleasant. Fabulously magnificent light shades that my partner somehow initially missed! Down to business. We went for the Chefs menu, which was excellent value at 24.95 EUR for three courses. Two courses was 20.95 EUR. To start I went for the Smoked Salmon & Pate, my partner the Ham Hock Terrine. Delicious, both delicious. The salmon especially. Plenty of smoked salmon that was just melt in the mouth. For mains I went for the Slow Roast Pork Belly, my partner the Caribbean Chicken Fricassee. The pork had lots and lots of meat and was cooked perfectly. The accompanying vegetables and jus worked very very well. My partner was really really pleased with his main course. He was still talking about it a few days later. I am sure he will describe it adequately in his review. For wine we picked Old Coach Road, a 2012 Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, 32 EUR. This worked wonderfully with my meal. We shared a dessert, which you pick from the A la carte menu, even though it part of the Chef menu deal. We picked the Chocolate Brown. Sweet mother divine, so so good. Each dish was presented immaculately. The service was excellent. Siobhan and co were very attentive and friendly to boot. We had a nice albeit brief chat with Siobhan at the end. Brennan's Lane is fantastic. And for 24.95 EUR, excellent value. It was the best meal of our whole week long trip a long the west coast. We are very grateful to Dolores at the Red River Lodge B&B for recommending it to us.

I've been in Ireland for 18 months now and been visiting for 5 years…read more I can honestly say this was the best 3 courses of food I have had since I have been here, all for the early bird price of 24 euro. For starters I had a duck terrine with a plum pickle. It was very nice, with a few pieces of bread it also had another pickle which I cant remember what it was but it was also nice! For my main course I had a Caribbean Chicken Curry with Jasmine rice, I love Caribbean food and this was truly lovely. The chicken was so moist and delicious I have never had its like before. For desert I had a chocolate brownie with a toffee sauce and homemade ice cream a sugar twirl and biscuit crumbs. It was amazing. The food was also substantial which is very unusal, but very welcome. The restaurant was really nice but you do need to go upstairs through a bar which can be busy. But don't let it put you off. The decor upstairs is great and the staff are really really nice. All in all this is the first review for 5 stars which I wish there was a way of putting an extra star or exclamation mark on the review. If you are near here take a trip. Its awesome. My partner also fully enjoyed the evening but I honestly was so engrossed in my own food I cant even remember what she had!

THE BROKEN JUG…read more "Situated in the heart of Ballina this extensive pub is really warm, welcoming and cosy. Providing the very best in food and drink, their carvery lunches are superb. A haven for the tourist or the weary shopper the Broken Jug is also very popular with the younger age group. The friendly and efficient staff will make your visit here truly memorable." The opening paragraph comes courtesy of the Broken Jug itself, a pub cum eatery in the Co. Mayo town. It is warm and friendly but the bare timber furniture and backless seating is more for the "younger age group"! The restaurant section is a shade more comfortable and the food is very good, the service friendly and efficient and the prices reasonable. The other night, I started with a magnificent chowder, very very tasty (indeed one of the best I've come across) and not suffocated with cream as happened in a Cork venue recently. Main course was a lasagne. It was almost top class, and would have been but for it being a little overdone in the heating which made some of the edges too hard. Overall though - the cheese and mincemeat were excellent - it was a fine dish, served with chips and an undressed well mixed salad. Dessert, there were about five choices, was homemade apple tart with cream and, yes, the apple was real chunky stuff, just the way I like it. I have given it four stars but three and half would be more like it - if you're over forty! For more on Mayo trip see: http://swissroll07.blogspot.com/

One of my usual spots for a quick carvery lunch during a working day in Ballina. Enter off…read moreO'Rahilly St and up some sets of steps. Carvery directly in front of you with a typed menu on display is you can't make out what's on offer. Have always had tasty food there and good mash. Portions for those not on a diet usually which is great to see. Busy lunch venue but plenty of seating.

Fantastic place for delicious Irish lunch - roast of the day - beef, smoked coley and fabulous…read morepresentation of the food! Tia place should be number one on Yelp in Ballina! Super fast serving as well! Within 3 minutes food on the table! Don't want to look for other place! Great music ( not too loud and too quiet), screens to watch soccer and most importantly food you won't get in Dublin!

My mother and I stopped here for a late lunch. She loved her Greek salad and coffee, and I had a…read morepretty good pork roast with mash and veg. Not too expensive. Nice ambience.

Depends on your expectations…read more This place is nestled away in a very beautiful part of Ballina, County Mayo in Ireland. There are a handful of bars nearby that you can walk to from this location and just take in the sites if you want to soak up the scenery afterwards which really makes the location pleasant. This place was recommended to us by a bartender who wrote down about five different locations she recommended nearby. So why the three stars? If we could give half stars, I would rate at 3.5 to be fair but the reasons it scored this rating are as follows: The menu item my girlfriend and I both ordered was the 8oz Fillet Steak. Description: Fillet of Prime Irish Beef cooked to your liking served with creamed potato, mushrooms, onions, chips and choice of sauce (pepper cream or garlic and herb butter). The description and picture look amazing, but I was expecting a fuller and more delicious taste. When I bit into it unless I slathered it with the butter the taste was lacking and not living up to my expectation. The creamed potatoes that came underneath the steak was good and of course being in Ireland you get a side of potato fries with your creamed potatoes, LOL, I love Ireland, one of the other restaurants we dined in literally served us potatoes four different ways for one of their entries. They had some local beers, I had Jack the Lad, which you can order here and many other local spots 3/4th the way full and have Guinness poured on top as the last 1/4th pour, it's called the special brew, its a local thing, but tastes spectacular. If you want a fine dining experience you will find it here, but you will also be paying a fine dining price point. As always people SYOY!!!

Dillions is a good sized restaurant with a pub area and a main dining room. They required a…read morereservation and table turnover was quick. We ordered the 10 oz steak and roasted chicken with mashed potatoes. The steak was cooked to order and came with nicely seasoned onion rings and hot fries. The chicken was good and served with steamed broccoli and carrots. The food was good but the restaurant was very loud. Most tables had more than one kid and several were a bit out of control. The food was good but the overall experience was disappointing

After discovering that the Ice House restaurant was all booked up, we walked down the river road to…read moreget to Crockett's. It's what I tend do think of when I think of an Irish pub -- dark wood, etc. We ended up being seated in a room away from the bar, which was fine, but it was also in a room that was playing some...out of context music. For example, hearing 50 Cent's "In da Club" was not expected. Perhaps it was really "In da Pub." Food was good - not exceptional, but good. My seafood chowder was a nice medium broth with mostly fish, but good sea food flavor, and seemed thickened with potato for accuracy. Served with some super dense brown bread which was great dipped in the soup. Fish and chips were a very generous cod fillet in nice crispy batter. The fish was tasty, well cooked, and the batter wasn't too greasy or soggy. Chips were good, but didn't have much of any flavor. Maybe not the best potatoes? Others commented that their salmon was...OK. Fried brie (what could possibly be wrong with that) was reported as excellent, as was a special Cajun chicken terrine starter. Service was a little slow, but we weren't in a hurry. I don't know how to adjust my service expectations for here vs. the US, but it sounds like it's just a slower pace, and that's fine. They were just starting trivia (the pen and paper kind, too, none of this automated electronic scoring stuff) when we left about 10pm, but we left as we figured it might be over the heads of two Americans, a German, a Dane, and an Englishman. Would I come back? Yes. There are other good looking things on the menu to try, but there are also some other spots in town I'll probably try first. But certainly nothing bad here.

I eat there with family on Sunday (St Patrick's Day), food and service is top class, Staff and…read moreManagement were so friendly and helpful, treated us like VIP's, always topped our table with mi wadi and water, never had to ask it was done, decor was very inviting, definitely a well deserved 5 star rating, would recommend people from across Ireland and the globe to eat in this fabulous Gastro Pub &Restaurant, would recommend Gordon Ramsay to eat there too, I think he would be blowing away, food was absolutely wonderful. I will definitely be eating there again, well done to all staff and management, very efficient and fast service and very reasonable. Just blown away.

Went to Breathnachs on a Monday night. Very Friendy and relaxed atmosphere. Great craic and lovely…read moreGuinness! Highly Recommended.