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Book the seafood day
Five guided days with live availability, and the six rooms worth booking a table in yourself.
Photograph Thoslee, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Howth, County Dublin
Howth coastal seafood and craft beer trail
About 3 hours · from €89
Thirty minutes out on the DART to a working fishing harbour, eating along the pier. The best half day in Dublin for anybody who came for the sea.
Galway city
Galway Food Tours walking tasting
About 2 hours 30 minutes · from €85
Sheridans, the market, the bay's shellfish, with a guide who knows the growers. The fastest way to understand west of Ireland food.
New Quay, County Clare
Private oyster tour and tasting by the Flaggy Shore
About 2 hours · from €120 for two
Out to the beds with the people who grow them, then a tasting on the shore. Pair it with lunch at Linnane's at the end of the pier.
Inishmore, County Galway
Aran Islands food and heritage day
About 5 hours · from €95
The islands, the stone walls, and the food that came out of a place with no soil. Take the early ferry and the late one back.
County Antrim, from Belfast
Lough Neagh shoreline food and drink tour
About 4 hours · from £75
Northern Ireland's inland fishery, eels and all, with the smokers and growers. Dinner at Mourne Seafood in Belfast after.
Tables, not tours
The rooms to book yourself
Linnane's Lobster Bar
New Quay, County Clare
The end of a pier, a tin tray, and the Burren behind you. Our first choice on the whole island.
Reserve directMoran's Oyster Cottage
Kilcolgan, County Galway
Seven generations on Galway Bay. Oysters first, crab claws second.
Reserve directMourne Seafood Bar
Belfast
Grows its own shellfish in Carlingford and Dundrum. Plain room, consistently the best value seafood in the north.
Reserve directOut of the Blue
Dingle, County Kerry
No fish landed, no opening. The most honest sign in Irish hospitality, and the menu changes daily because of it.
Reserve directFishy Fishy
Kinsale, County Cork
The Kinsale room everybody names, and it has stayed good. Book lunch rather than dinner and sit outside.
Reserve directAniar
Galway
A Michelin star built on the west's shoreline. Book eight weeks out and take the wine pairing.
Reserve direct
Oysters have their own booking page: the oyster hub. Season, safety and what travels home: the questions page. Back to the seafood hub.
Build the trip around it
Where we would stay for a seafood trip
Deer Park Hotel Howth
County Dublin
Above the harbour that lands the fish. Walk to the pier counters before breakfast.
Ballynahinch Castle
Connemara
Oysters, langoustines and the Connemara coast within an hour of the front door.
Perryville House
Kinsale, County Cork
The best-eating small town in Ireland, and the boats are visible from the room.
The weeks this fits inside
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7 Quiet Days in the West
Two houses, no rush, seven days. The West held at the pace it actually keeps.
7 Days in Greater Dublin: The Definitive Itinerary
Four nights in Dublin, three in Wicklow. The base change at Day 5 is the trick most itineraries miss.