The Park Room Restaurant

In the Park House Hotel

3 Forster Street, Eyre Square Galway

Telephone: 353 91 564924

The Park Room Restaurant offers award-winning dining from an imaginative menu, to be enjoyed with an extensive wine list, all set in an ambiance of light and tasteful decor. The Park room restaurant is an elegant choice for a meal. It’s an informal room decorated in a relaxing pink color with unobtrusive lightening. For lively nights, many with music and all with great company, the Parkes Bar is the ideal venue. The Park Room Restaurant is the descendant of the famous Eyre House Restaurant which was established on Eyre Square in 1974. The company went on to establish Park House Restaurant on Forster Street in 1985. In 1996, the two restaurants amalgamated to develop the Park House Hotel in June 1996. The Park House cuisine has many multi-cultural influences due to the International nature of it's chefs down through the years, and the restaurant offers an extensive range of culinary delights. Although the menus are predominately classical French Cuisine, the Park House also cooks in traditional and modern Irish style and prepare seafood and vegetarian dishes. The Park Room Restaurant uses fresh local produce as much as possible. You can expect to find a wide range of Fresh Seafood including local Oysters, Sole, Turbot and many more. The Lamb is native to Connemara and the Beef is local. The Park Room Restaurant seats 120 and is opened Monday to Sunday 12:30-15:00 and 18:00-22:00. The dress code is casual.

Angela Says: The Park House offers excellent food in an elegant atmosphere. When my abroad program dined here for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner, all the food was excellently prepared. Our group ordered appetizers ranging from mushroom soup, to pâté, to melon with cream. Entrees included chicken kieve, chicken Maryland, mushroom tortellini, and salmon fillets. For dessert we sampled chocolate gateaux, pumpkin pie, and fruit and cream. Ample rolls and sides of sautéed vegetables and scalloped potatoes rounded out the meal. Luckily we didn’t pay for our meals (they were on Union… or more accurately, on our parents), because the prices at The Park House are quite steep. The meal was delicious but nothing was remarkable (however, this could simply be because we had such a large group to cook for). This place is certainly a safe bet, but I’d say save a few bucks and check out Cooke’s or McSwiggan’s instead.

Atiba Says: The Park Room Restaurant is where our term-abroad group had our Thanksgiving Dinner. The food I had was enjoyable; however, it is a pricey restaurant, so bring enough cash or your credit card before leaving the house. The atmosphere reminds me of the dinning room in the blockbuster film “Titanic” with gold trims, velvet couches as you enter, and mirrors on every side of the restaurant. It was very posh-looking with older folks dressed in their peacoats straight from Brown Thomas. If you’re vain, stylish, and love looking at yourself in the mirror, this is your niche. The salmon, I have to say, is the best I had in Galway. There is a wide range of deserts to pick from in comparison with other desert lists in the area restaurants. I really like this place.