2 Best Restaurants in Skibbereen, County Cork

Ahmet Dede, formerly of the exquisite Mews just down the street, bestows his culinary magic on his in season tasting menu that can include Wagyu beef, black sole, red mulberry, and brown butter—or even brown butter ice cream for that matter. This chef is living proof that with talent, a restaurant does not need the pomp and trappings of fine dining to offer a feast of flavor---because he's wowing critics both nationally and globally with his local ingredients served with Turkish flair in his stripped-back, casual eatery in the delightful seaside village of Baltimore.

When it comes to an organically sourced menu, it's hard to match the offerings at the Casey family's wonderful, oceanfront restaurant close to the tiny, roadside hamlet of Baltimore. The mussels come from their farm at Roaring Bay, water from the property's spring well, and root vegetables travel a couple of feet from their garden to the kitchen, while the bread arrives warm to the table as it's freshly baked on-site. The produce they can't source on-site hails from local West Cork trawlers and farms. To cap it all off, the craft beer by bottle and on tap like Sherkin Lass Pale Ale comes from the family's nano-brewery in the garden. Of course, none of this would amount to anything if they didn't bring it all together with culinary perfection and precision (as they do) at the hands of their pedigree chefs.