Castlelough - Killarney

High end Irish is really high end. Part of the Lake Hotel in Killarney, this restaurant is the fanciest we have seen in this beautiful country. Venison, rabbit, lamb were all delicious and really well prepared. Very friendly service. Prices were on the high side for Ireland, but probably half of what you would spend in New York.

During our stay at the Lake Hotel, my wife and I dined here for two breakfast meals and one amazingly romantic dinner. For breakfast, we had everything from smoke salmon to an open-faced omelet to finally some delicious Irish porridge. However, it was the dinner that was absolutely wonderful. First, we had ab amuse-bouche to amuse the mouth on the house. For an appetizer, my wife had an amazing calamari tortellini with vegetable salsa and potato and leek cream. I went with the Scots Pine smoked salmon with pickled shallots, confit lemon, dill oil, burnt lemon powder, and horseradish cream. My wife's main was an absolutely amazing pan seared loin of local Kerry lamb. It was a Wellington of slow braised lamb shoulder, velvet cloud sheep yogurt gel, roasted baby beetroot, pickled mustard seeds and red wine jus. I selected the special, which was a seared fillet of wild turbot with sprouting broccoli, pickeld Jerusalem artichokes, in a shellfish cream. However, the hit of the night was the BEST scalloped cheese potatoes with a healthy dusting of pistachio dish to share. Of course, we also had Irish brown bread with Irish butter. We imbibed an excellent Albariño from Spain. What an outstanding meal!

After eating a mediocre breakfast in this room, I didn’t expect much from the dinner. I ordered short ribs and they were wonderful. They served tons of vegetable and they were cooked wall and tasty.

Ate here for our second night at the moment, and we only regret not eating here both nights! The food was incredible, so tasty, and the menu is really varied. Good wine list also, and staff were brilliant.

We thoroughly enjoyed our dinner in the Castlelough restaurant. The service was outstanding. Waiters very attentive. The quality and the presentation of the food was really good. With the chef's compliments we had lovely bread with sundried tomatoes spread and a great Amuse-bouche( single bite size hors d'oeuvre). The following 3 courses were very tasty and very well presented. Looking forward to our next meal!