My husband and I are doing two weeks in Ireland in September and I'm hoping to come armed with some good vegetarian restaurants; it can be a challenge sometimes when you don't eat meat, seafood or poultry! We're staying in:
- Dublin
- Cork
- Kinsale
- Dingle
- Galway
- Portrush
- Belfast
Anyone have some good recommendations?
Are you familiar with happy cow website? It has been providing vegetarian and vegan recommendations globally for as long as the net has been a general public resource.
Most pubs prepare a huge pot of thick vegetable soup every day from whatever fresh veggies are available. For €6 (5 years ago), you could have a tasty bowlful served with fresh brown soda bread and butter for lunch nearly anywhere in Ireland. That will hold you between breakfast and lunch, especially if you add a pint to the menu.
I eat mostly vegetarian (some fish, no seafood) and by the end of 2 weeks, I was tired of the cooked vegetables - hardly any variety, mostly roots and my trip was in August.
The Farm, in Dublin, has both vegetarian and meat dishes, and was quite good. I believe there's more than one location in Dublin now.
Nearly every pub in Ireland makes lasagna every day. Usually cheese filled with tomato sauce, no meat , or both options. Ate it a lot, always excellent and filling for the price.
I was surprised at the wide range of vegetables available in most restaurants. Was there 6 weeks in the summer last visit and, even though I am not vegetarian, looked forward to the vegetables I could find at most every restaurant. All were very fresh, well prepared, and tasty.
Thank you everyone!!! I'm definitely going to check out Happy Cow.
While we have not yet been, some time ago I saved this thread.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/ireland/vegan-in-ireland
We traveled in August of last year. There were 2 vegetarians and two omnivores. We were traveling for a little over 3 weeks. We found it to be hit or miss as far of menu options go. Some places listed the vegetarian special - that was pretty much you get what you get and don't get upset plate of food. But for the most part we throughly enjoyed our meals when in Ireland and if there was not a huge selection of veg dishes offered the restaurant's ambiance and service more that made up for the limited food selection. Here is our list of places we ate:
Dublin: We had great vegetarian food in Dublin. This will be the easy one!
Kinsale: We ate at Fishy Fishy - looking at the current menu I have no idea what we ordered when we dined there. But whatever we ate is was delicious. I mostly wanted to eat there because Phil of "I'll Have What Phil's having" filmed there. You can probably find a more veg friendly place.
Dingle: Ashe's Pub and Doyle's Seafood - Both offered one or two veg dishes but they were both delicious. I would recommend either one. The service was excellent. Reservations recommended at both.
Portrush: Recommend this one! Ocho Tapas Bistro - fantastic tapas place with a nice selection of vegetarian dishes. Reservation recommended.
We also ate the the Ramore Wine Bar - They don't have a huge selection of veg dishes but I do recall we were able to put together a very nice meal. Reservations Recommended
