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Reviews
from:
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Doras
Directory (awarded 4
shamrocks);
and the
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1999Tipprerary
Water Guide to Ireland
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 Review
from the Doras
Directory:
Kehoes
Pub and Maritime Museum
Located
in Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford, Kehoes Pub is
a sixth generation public house and a
nautical museum. The site carries a list
of the ships that have been salvaged in
order to create the museum. In addition,
this site carries a complete tourist's
guide to Wexford, and a comprehensive
restaurant menu. This site is outstanding
- there is a mine of information available
- the design is excellent, the colours are
great, and it is easy to navigate. One of
the best pub sites around.
Click
here
for more info.
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The
following is an extract from the
1999
Georgina Campbell's Tipperary Water Guide
to
Ireland
- the independently assessed guide to the
best food, drink, accommodation and
hospitality in Ireland. (see p. 345 of the
book, or www.ireland-guide.com)
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The
guide uses a unique combination of local
knowledge and an experienced assessment
team to produce this comprehensive,
independently researched Guide to help the
visitor to find the best places to eat,
drink and stay throughout Ireland. The
assessors only recommend establishments
meeting the Guide's rigorous standards.
Establishments are included solely on
merit. Georgina Campbell is a leading
writer on all aspects of Irish cuisine and
hospitality. Author of a number of books,
she is also a journalist and is currently
chairman of the Irish Food Writers
Guild.
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Kehoe's
Pub, Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford
Recent
harbour developments, and especially the
new marina, have brought an extra surge of
activity to this thriving fishing village
- and well-informed visitors al head
straight for Kehoe's - family-owned for
generations (James and Eleanor Kehoe have
been running it since 1987). Changes have
been made over the years, the most obvious
being in 1994 when they decided to do a
really good refurbishment job, to enhance
the pub's traditional ambience -
everything was done correctly, from the
roof slates to the old pitch-pine flooring
(and ceiling in the Parlour). At the same
tine the interior was used to display a
huge range of maritime artefacts, some of
them recovered from local wrecks by James
and his diving colleagues. They have
created what amounts to a maritime museum;
even the beer garden at the back of the
pub is constructed from a mast and boom
discarded by local trawlers. The other
major change has been to the food side of
the business, which has crept up on
Kehoe's gradually; a few years ago they
did little more than soup and sandwiches
but now the pub has a growing reputation
of the quality and range of its meals -
seafood, as well as vegetarian dishes and
other main courses such as lasagne and
stuffed chicken breasts wrapped bacon.
There's a short but very adequate wine
list in addition to normal bar
drinks.
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