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LONG DOCK
Carrigaholt
Tel: 065 9058106 Web: thelongdock.com
Award-winning pub with seafood a speciality. Wonderful atmosphere with music too.

KEATING'S PUB
Kilbaha
Web: keatingsbar.com
Famous for being the last pub before New York, this has a splendid view over the Shannon estuary, excellent chowder and chips-type pub food and is the sort of place you wish you had a tent with you, so that you could just crash out right there for the night.

DIAMOND ROCKS CAFÉ
Kilkee
Web: diamondrockscafe.com
Top seafront café with homemade food, brilliant pizzas and cakes to die for. Packed with swimmers who brave the nearby Pollack Holes daily. Great local atmosphere and the place to meet local experts on water activities, tides and conditions. They also have a surf cam on their website.

MURPHY BLACKS
The Square, Kilkee
Tel: 065 905 6854
Web: murphyblacks.com
Small bistro with superb fish and seafood, all from local Loop Head suppliers.

THE STRAND BISTRO
Kilkee
Tel: 065 9056177 Web: thestrandkilkee.com
Seaside and seafood bistro, overlooking Kilkee Strand and run by the Redmond family who have been hosting in Kilkee for four generations. Eat fine local seafood, have a drink and fall into bed in one of their guestrooms overlooking the ocean.