Seafood Bar Menu

Seafood Bar of the Year 2007- Georgina Campbell

While John FitzGibbon supervises the front of house, his brother David reigns over a busy kitchen, and their wives (of course) keep a calm eye on everything. The restaurant is renowned for its seafood - specialities like pan-fried scallops with spinach, bacon & cream, or fresh crab salad make memorable starters, for example, and who could resist a main course hot buttered Youghal Bay lobster? These are, in a sense, simple dishes yet they have a natural glamour too.

But it is perhaps the quality and range of the bar food which is most unusual: the style tends pleasingly towards simplicity - oysters, chowder, Yawl Bay smoked salmon and oysters make for great snacks or starters (all served with the renowned moist dark brown yeast bread), and you'll find at least half a dozen delicious hot seafood main course dishes like baked cod wrapped in bacon (served with salad, salsa & sauté potatoes) and gorgeous prawns in garlic butter - its sheer freshness tells the story. And, whereas lack of consistency in standards is a major problem in Ireland's hospitality industry as a whole, Aherne's Seafood Bar stands out as a role model of excellence - during the two or three decades that we've been dropping into the bar for a bite at all sorts of hours, the standards of both food and service have never been less than outstanding: it is well worth planning a journey around a bar meal at Aherne's."

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Please contact us to make a reservation for group bookings at ahernes@eircom.net or (024)92424