Blairs Inn is a real treat. The menu is old scholl at its very best. I have been there several times for lunch and always love it.

BLAIRS INN Corned Beef and Cabbage. As a starter! Yes and it proved a really tasty beginning to an excellent weekend meal at Blairs Inn. What a menu they have there. If you combine the pages from the bar and restaurant menus, I reckon you could be eating there for a year and still have combinations to explore. And then there are the drinks. There is an excellent wine list, for sure. But also lots of local (and international) drinks including craft beers from Dungarvan, Carlow, Eight Degrees (North Cork) and the new cider sensation Stonewell by the Nohoval Brewing Company. After a big welcome and a chat with Richard we sat down in the cosy restaurant – they also have a lovely garden dining area – to go through the menus. My starter was a Warm Tian of O’Crualaoi’s Corned Beef and Cabbage with a creamy Parsley dressing (€7.70). If you get out there, you should really try this. The beef, supplied by the well known Ballincollig butcher, was spot-on as was everything else in this well presented cylinder shaped offering of good local food. Then on to the main course: Pan fried fillets of Sea Bass on a Chorizo mash with a sundried tomato and rocket dressing and a side plate filled with vegetables and another with gratin potato, both done to perfection. Again, another excellent plateful. And a big plateful. Indeed, both starter and mains were quite substantial, so much so that I had to forego the dessert. They helpfully suggest, on the menu, various drinks with each course; the tips for me were a wheat beer with the starter and a dry cider with the fish. I was in the mood for wine and settled on a bottle of their highly recommended an excellent Hopler Gruner Veltliner (Burgenland, Austria) 2009 (€26.95). You get a great welcome here and also help and advice. Quite a few tourists make their way here and they must be impressed with the local knowledge that the owners and staff so freely dispense. Lovely food, lovely place and lovely people. A return visit is on the cards. And not just for me.

Myself and my father were here for Lunch. We have been here maybe four or five times in the last year. There is a reason that we keep coming back. We both had the chicken and Mushroom Vol au Vent's they were amazing, the pastry, creamy sauce. Everything. Then we had the Wild Venison (I am thinking it was stew but there is ome french name for it that I just cant really remember now) in a red wine sauce with a hint of Dark Chocolate. This was very very tasty indeed. I would have it again no problems and I would recommend this as well. The veg came out perfect. There seems to be a great wine selection and beer selection but as i was driving we didnt have any. Once you go in the main door you can see all the awards Bridgestone etc etc. Service is impeccable and its a nice homely pub. Definitely recommend. Though we didnt have nay deserts to be honest i am sure that they would be rather spectacular.