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    Monks Seafood Restaurant & Pub

    4.4 (55 reviews)
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    MONKS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & PUB ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Chantal S.

    Well located restaurant with. I e views depending on your seating. Casual vibe with very amicable service. Food- EXCELLENT. Order the mussels and clams! We had to order the mussels a second time...they were THAT good. The brown bread for dipping in the delicious broths of the clams and the mussels was phenomenal. The most moist brown bread of our trip! The fish and chips was made with Hake and was PHENOMENAL! So moist and flaky!!! The grilled oysters....were good but I would not order again...order more mussels!!!

    Seafood plate at  Monks.
    Alan B.

    Stopped in to Monks as we wound our way through the Burren.Friendly staff great location.These folks have been doing this a long time and it shows! Food was excellent and fairly priced. Seafood plate was fantastic. Lovely location also ticks all the boxes!

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    Jeff P.

    My wife and I had a great lunch here. She had the fish pie and I had the mussels and prawn linguine, with the seafood chowder to start. All were delicious and seemed to have fresh ingredients. The brown bread was good, not great. Service from Angela was excellent, and the hostess friendly and welcoming. Definitely worth the drive.

    Seafood salad and seafood platter

    We found this restaurant as we were driving from Galway to cliff Moher. The food were delicious and the view was spectacular! We definitely return in the future.

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    Ed U.

    Yelp keeps reminding me "My Next Review Awaits" with constant reference to this little roadside pub by Galway Bay, even though I visited way back in October. I was one of those tourists on a mid-morning bus tour of the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher, and this was the first extended pit stop. I am speculating Monks has cut a deal with the tour companies because another tour company followed right behind us thus assuring the establishment a constant flow of indiscriminate Americans, Chinese and Germans looking to snack and tinkle during our half-hour break. It's a cozy cottage in a village with the coy name of Ballyvaughan in lovely County Clare. I helped myself to a pint of Guinness and then strolled on the old pier that extends out to the bay. Lovely, mist-shrouded views await with swans swimming nearby (see photos). I didn't have the time or motivation to order their house special, the Seafood Chowder, since we were having lunch an hour later in Doolin near the cliffs. However, the bracing sea air certainly convinced me that it would be worthwhile to try if I were ever to return. Hopefully I will be in a rented car in the early evening when the tour buses are all on their way back to Dublin.

    Goat Cheese Bruschetta at Monks Seafood Restaurant...to die for!

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    Stopped in while driving the Atlantic causeway for lunch. I had wonderful mussels and chowder! Ny husband loved his stew.

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    Excellent pasta and prawn dish. The prawns were very fresh and tasty. One of the best seafood dishes I have had!

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    This place was PERFECT! People were wonderful, food was outstanding, location excellent. GO HERE!

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    We were driving from Galway to the Cliffs of Moher and it started POURING as we drove into Ballyvaughan.

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    The Wildflower Restaurant

    The Wildflower Restaurant

    4.0(5 reviews)
    0.6 km

    We dined here twice while staying in Ballyvaughan County Clare and there isn't a day that goes by…read morethat I don't miss it. Atmosphere: They have a nice small parking lot in back that they share with the hotel that this restaurant is connected to. The inside has ample booth and table seating and it is so cozy. The lighting is super fun and the place is just spotless and has a nice little host/waiting area. Service: Friendly and just truly wonderful staff, such a warm and inviting group of people. They made the experience just a treat. Food: Best seafood chowder we had the entire time in Ireland, so fresh and balanced, it really celebrated the ingredients and the bread was just phenomenal. The fish and chips here were just fantastic, the veg was cooked perfectly. I can't think of a single flaw about the food here, it was exceptional. I could gush about this place for ages, and when people asked me about the food in Ireland, I ALWAYS mention this place. My husband and I are planning on visiting Ireland for our 5 year wedding anniversary, and this place is at the top of my list to come back to, until then Wildflower!

    My husband had the chief's chicken with black pudding stuffing and he loved it! I had the Caesar…read moresalad with chicken and bacon. The chicken was great, but the salad had too much dressing for me. Service was good! Loved the music-modern, not Irish. Then had the brownie for desert. Was warm with vanilla ice cream. Good old fashion US brownie! Yum!

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    The Wildflower Restaurant - Cool lighting

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    The Wildflower Restaurant - Literally the best seafood chowder we had while in Ireland (I think we tried 4? 5 places?)

    Literally the best seafood chowder we had while in Ireland (I think we tried 4? 5 places?)

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    Hyland's Burren Restaurant

    Hyland's Burren Restaurant

    2.5(4 reviews)
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    I created a Yelp account specifically to give this place a 1 star review. They have a bar attached…read moreto a restaurant. They have bar food at the bar and dinner food in the restaurant. They are literally connected via an open doorway, but you can't order bar food in the restaurant or vice-versa. This makes it two completely separate restaurants with a tiny (~10 item) menu in each, e.g. you can't order a burger if you're in the dining room or the chicken if you're in the bar; I asked and they explicitly said no. Since my companion wanted the chicken, we got ourselves seated in the restaurant; it was 630pm. There was one other party on the whole place and they'd already gotten their food. We got menus as we were seated and then it was 10 minutes before they showed up to take a drink order or any employee passed through the dining room at all. Since I couldn't order bar food, I ordered the soup: leek and potato. Supposedly. I didn't see a single piece of potato of any size in the entire bowl and less than a cubic centimeter of leek. The rest was hot water colored white with no flavor. My companion liked her chicken, but the mashed potatoes that came with it were bland enough to possibly be from a box. The only thing I enjoyed was the bread. I honestly wish we'd just gotten protein bars from the grocery. They would have tasted better, been healthier, and cost less.

    I am a bit surprised by the low reviews. I thought that this place was comfortable, friendly, and…read morehad good service, and the bar food that we ordered was very good too. I would stop in again and recommend to others. We stopped in twice, once just for a few pints, and another time for lunch.

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