The Bridge Bar & Mooring Restaurant

There are not too many places to eat in Port Magee but this one comes highly recommended and it meets the hype. Great specials on their chalkboard plus a nice menu should satisfy most in your party. We started with a basket of brown soda bread as we were starving after a long day of touring. I got the veggie pasta special which was spinach and cheese tortellini with tomatoes and spinach and it was great. Friend got the fresh salmon catch and grilled veggies and is still raving about it. They have a good dessert menu but we were too full to indulge. The Guinness or Murphys were flowing and made for a good topper to the evening. We might come back here tomorrow to try something new.

Food was good but nothing out of the ordinary. We ordered our skellig cruise here for 30 € each. Not able to land on the island til 14^th of May.

The Moorings restaurant is a lovely, cosy restaurant attached to the Moorings B&B. You can’t miss it, with it’s bright red exterior and facing over the harbour. The staff are lovely, and go out of their way to help you out.
The food was decent — I had a seafood risotto, with the biggest crab claw I’d ever seen on it! For me it was a touch salty, but otherwise, very lovely, comfort dish! My husband had the chicken, which was also decent. The portion sizes are good, since we were both too full to eat a dessert!
We also had our breakfast in the mornings, as we were staying in the B&B. The breakfast range is very good, with a cold breakfast buffet on offer and a choice from the hot food menu. On the first day, I had the waffles with maple syrup, which were light and crispy. On the second day, I had the lemon sole, which was amazing! It was cooked just right, with a crispy skin — very recommended!

Been there after a trip on the suggestive Valentia island. The place is just after the bridge. The food was awesome and the fish really fresh. Definitely a place I can recommend. The prices seemed ok, the staff was prompt and kind and if you are not afraid of a bit of wind you can order and eat outside, just in front of the bay.

Great food and friendly service. The fresh catch was excellent as was the soup and deserts. Very pleasantly surprised by the high quality of food in what looks to be just another neighborhood pub

Un restaurant en face du port de Portmagee.
— Les bières sont bonnes
— Les fish and chips excellents, croustillants et pas trop gras
— Le poisson (merlu) est frais, est servi avec des accompagnements variés: salade, frites et pickles
— Les irish whisky à se damner ! Je vous conseille d’essayer le Skellig Coffee !

I first stayed at The Moorings in October 2013. Loved it so much that I returned this year and had an even more amazing time staying during the Sea Shanty Festival. Can’t say enough positive things about my stay at The Moorings, the fun at the Bridge Bar as well as the fantastic food. I plan on going back again in 2015, so that should really say it all.

We came to the Moorings for lunch as part of our tour around the ring of Kerry. It’s a cute little town and it was nice to be able to get pictures outside by the harbor. We ordered from a prix fixe menu since there were so many of us. I chose the seafood chowder and open faced ham and cheese sandwich option. The chowder was just ok. It had big chunks of fish in it, but it was otherwise pretty bland. The ham and cheese was really disappointing. It was on brown bread with one thin slice of ham on one side and a pile of shredded cheese on the other. It was really difficult to eat as the cheese kept falling off the sandwich and and you couldn’t even taste the sliver of ham. It just wasn’t good. I would come back based on the location of the place for a drink, but the food wasn’t worth coming back for.

We stopped off at The Bridge Bar for some food on our way back from doing the Skelligs Ring drive.
They have these wonderful colourful picnic benches out front looking over the harbour, so nab one of these if you find yourself here on a nice day.
Starting with some cider poured over ice, we took in the sun and views.
Next we ordered some food, which if I am honest, was not great. The most interesting seafood chowder I’ve ever had and not in a good way. It was like a bog standard pub vegetable soup with some fish chunks added in. It was a disappointment. My parters fish and chips were OK, nothing to write home about.
We left after the one drink and food. I might go back for a drink, but not the food.

Pay extra for harbour view-​worth it! Very picturesque. Lovely rooms. The food was good and hearty. Only thing, such a pretty place, but no cloth napkins… hmmm. Also, bussing tables not their forte. Had to move dirty dishes around to be able to eat. They do not tell you this, but make reservations and request window seat so you can look at the water. Would go here again. Just all part of the Ireland experience.

The Skellig coffee was great, I’d love to have the recipe.
It was really busy when we were there and the service was poor. The food was above average and the portions were large. The Irish stew was very good.

Stopped in for a bite, after driving for the day. Cozied up next to the fire, it was windy freezing outside.
Had a pint of Guinness a seafood chowder and a meat stew, all were great. Also met some locals, extremely nice and was even invited up to their house on the island for drinks. :)
Perfect location!

After driving around Valentia Island for the morning while on Holiday in Kerry, my husband and I stopped through Portmagee once our bellies decided it was lunch time. Most places there were closed, as it was just before christmas, but we worked our way into the Bridge Bar. They had quite a large menu, so you’d find something there for just about anyone.
We ordered the irish stew, and the soup of the day with brown bread (which was vegetable that day). Both were fantastic, and very flavourful. The inside of the pub was cutely decorated as well in an ecclectic marine theme. I know that on some nights they have live music here as well, but unfortunately (due to bad weather over Christmas) we were unable to make it back the music. However, the background music was surprisingly REALLY good. Not something I usually notice, but it was good here.
The staff were super friendly and accomodating. The next time I’m in the Skellig area, will definitely be back here again!

One of the better pubs we got to on our vacation (and believe me, there was PLENTY of those) with good pub grub and fair prices. Excellent local music on Sunday nights, with some dancing thrown in. Some of the dancers also perform at the Skelling Center and in local groups. A lot of fun with a great community vibe.
I was quite impressed with the size of the portions and the out and out tastiness of the coleslaw and sandwiches. I was also quite impressed that everyone after our trip to Skelling Michael piled into the pub to lift a pint to a great day and no one was elbow to elbow.

Wow… Ok maybe not wow… But something near it.
Almost everything in this place was great. The staff, full of hello’s, can I help you, have a good evening and great about the one thing that was wrong. And this was to a group of 10 people that just arrived in unannounced.
The place is nice and spacious and we found a big enough table to suit us all without squashing up against each other.
The food, for 90% of us, was perfect. More than perfect. The dishes were big and the majority of us left the venue complaint of having ate too much, and that is after we left some behind. That’s a good complaint, isn’t it?
I had the pasta special, Chicken (literally a chicken breast, with the skin still on it, sliced up), chorizo and a cream sauce. It was good. The chorizo was great, nice and spicy. The majority of the others had the fish, chips and mushy peas — sure why wouldn’t you when you are right beside the Atlantic.
One of the fish portions was off but once the waitress was informed she apologised, took it away and asked my friend if she would like another portion or something different. THIS is what customer service is about!
I will definitely be recommending this to anybody I know is going to Portmagee, Cahirciveen or Valentia Island.

A nice pub and restaurant in Portmagee. Nice and cosy interiors, great service and food was also great. Nice place for a drink or lunch or dinner :-))