O'Connors Seafood Restaurant

O'Connors Seafood Restaurant is West Cork's best and most famous seafood restaurant.

Located in the main square in Bantry, O’Connors is easy to find – there are three model yachts in the large picture window. Inside, the nautical theme is somewhat continued with sea-themed paintings and other bits-and-bobs. Coveted tables are, of course, those by the window which looks out over the square where you’ll often find a bustling market. But also much desired are the wonderful booths at the back, allowing for privacy if required.

As you’d expect, seafood plays a major role on the various menus. For lunch, you’ll find rustic chowder with poached salmon, cod and smoked haddock, a seafood platter with whatever fish is available daily, honey roast salmon and seafood linguini. Fresh fish also features on the blackboard specials – these might include, mussels, oysters, turbot or, as on the day we visited, Bantry Bay scallops. These were melt-in-the-mouth and were served complete with roe, with a most unusual and delicious pearl barley risotto. There is an a la carte, early bird and dinner menu, featuring the best of fish but with some meat dishes as well. You might taste Jack McCarthy’s famous wild boar black pudding with a pear and apple chutney, followed by Irish Angus sirloin steak or roulade of chicken with chorizo and potato rostini. Vegetarian lovers will be delighted with roast pumpkin and red pepper risotto.

Patrick is justly proud of the Oysterhaven mussels and oysters that are very popular choices. Mussels may be served Marinara, in a Thai coconut curry sauce or on the half shell with garlic and herb breadcrumbs. Oysters from the fresh water tank – home of the lobster when in season – are served baked with Murphy’s stout and walnuts, Rockefeller or oven baked. What seafood restaurant would be complete without those old favourite, fish and chips? But here there’s a different slant – you get two types of fish. Smoked haddock and cod are cooked together in a beer batter and served with homemade chunky chips and pea and mint puree.

West Cork is famous for its wonderful cheeses and you can taste some of them on the cheeseboard – Gubbeen and Charleville cheddar as well as fellow Good Food Ireland members Durrus and Ardsallagh. As for dessert – seasonal choices and treats that include cinnamon and apple pie or sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce will round off a meal that will stay in the memory for quite some time.

Staff are excellent – with manager Daniel O’Sullivan at the helm out front and Patrick in the kitchen, O’Connors is definitely sailing along to a great future.

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Wolfe Tone Square
Bantry
Co Cork
+353 (0)27 55664
Email: eat@oconnorsbantry.com
Web: www.oconnorseafood.com

 

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