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Hello Friends,
I want to visit Ireland, I will stay there for 30 days.since I love to eat different kinds of food can anyone give me some suggestion what kind of food I should try. I am a nonvegetarian.before going there I would like to book accomodations.
one of my friend suggested me to book hotels through asiarooms.com, can anyone provide me some other travel websites.

The Ireland Logue would be a place to start.

There are plenty of good restaurants in Ireland, and some are reviewed there. Obviously you must try steak & Guinness pie

Also, when are you going? If it's soon, I hope that the weather improves. The whole of the British Isles has received rather a dousing this summer.

55 straight days of rain people, 55!!!
Worst summer in recorded history!!

Apart from the weather - the food here isn't that adventurous. I am irish and I have never had steak and guinness pie - it sounds like a bit of a gimic. Pies are more of a british thing.

More common dishes (though not specifically irish)
Potato Bread
Boxty
Seafood Chowder (Pierhouse on the Aran islands has the best I have ever tasted)
Fresh Seafood in major fishing ports is always a treat. Howth is as great place for this, but there are many.
Bacon and Cabbage is a classic irish dish - haven't had one as good as what my mother makes.

A typical meal in my home place (9 kids) would be a roast of some variety with spuds and veg on the side. Sometimes you can get a stew which on a cold day is a life saver.


that and you can live on guinness - it has all you need

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Originally posted by PhilGill:
55 straight days of rain people, 55!!!
Worst summer in recorded history!!

Only 55? I thought it was more by now. Wait...there was one day when it didn't actually rain, I think.

And it's freezing cold. I'm outa here (hitting Japan just in time for the Typhoon season )

yeah, we got one day at the start of this month where it stayed dry.

needless to say the next day it rained!!

Strangely enough the best Indian food I've ever had was in Galway, just across from the Jury's Inn (don't know the name of the restaurant). Tandoor Mackerel--so good we went back the next day.

We didn't book any of our accomodations except for our first night in Dublin, are you sure you want to limit yourself by pre-booking? We used B & B's primarily and never had an issue with finding a place with room. That way we could roam wherever.

Have a great time, I wish we could have spent a month there, 3 weeks wasn't enough time by a long shot.

I was in Galway, best lunch I've ever had, went back three days straight for it. At a place I believe is called Riordans, vegetable soup and whatever sandwich was with it, was amazing.

Other than that had some amazing cabbage and bacon soup.

Guiness, and that's all my culinary memories of ireland

you can get bacon and cabbage pizza in some places

sounds wrong but tastes so right!!!

I had gone to Ireland , but I didn't stay there for too long, because of weather conditions.
I had booked a hotel at the last moment with asiarooms.com
the experience was wounderful.Since it was raining I spend most of the time in my room.
Regarding foods I was not so lucky this time, because I only tried some of the irish foods,but I didnot like them.

Ireland is a great county rain or shine. Unfortunately, its mostly rain! We went peak season with kids, there were 6 of us (4 adults) and we stayed in b&b without pre-reserving! It was great! The best food we had was in Wexford and it was Chinese! The international food in Ireland is great! The typical traditional Irish food is okay - try other cuisines. Have fun!

Definitely try and scope out a traditional bacon and cabbage dinner. Big pubs usually sell traditional Irish dinners.

PhilGill is correct... only your mammy makes the best!!! It's a proper Irish dish. Guaranteed 90% of the country will say it's their favorite.

Food can be quite expensive here tho...

Chinese food is popular here, but tends to be a bit on the rank side. Full of salt, msg and rubber chicken.

Every big town has a good Indian restaurant though, fantastic food... but it's very expensive; then again Ireland is officially the 2nd most expensive country in the world!!!