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This has a healthy slant to the menu, think salads and soups, but usually has one killer option, too, like a fried chicken sandwich.
There are ‘good’ choices like granola as well as more traditional Full Irish options, so something to please everyone. Good for veggies… And people who love cake.
EPIC brunch. The highlight here is a black pudding and potato hash, topped with an egg and sausages (feel free to argue this, but you will lose.)
They also do an excellent full Irish or a breakfast wrap and they don’t squirm at odd requests. Pancakes with a side order of sausages and a big fat burger too? Grand.
Sort of an alternative brunch, Ard Bia runs the gauntlet from quinoa with smoked salmon, pomegranate and pistachio to French toast stuffed with meltybrie and pear.
It’s not our fault if you immediately drop everything to go there now.
Easily the most popular spot for brunch in town. The menu is constantly on the move, changing daily as inspiration strikes. You can be exceptionally lucky with the food there, or just regular lucky. Seaweed shakes, an epic full Irish or the best combination of anything ever: smashed avocado with bacon.
Bang in the middle of town, excellent coffee and always reliably delicious food. Think brioche French toast or banana buttermilk pancakes that could easily fix all the world’s problems and a dresser full of cakes to die for.
A perk of Pura Vida is the outdoor seating area with a view over the Spanish Arch. It’s such a novelty to sit outdoors in Galway and enjoy a full Irish or a full veggie breakfast as you bake in the sun!
DJs & Cocktails make Galway’s newest brunch place pretty hip. There’s a huge anatomical drawing of a heart in the hallway, there’s all sorts of paleo delights on the menu and the barista is well up for the challenge of a Darth Vader coffee.
A definite favourite of the yummy mummy set, Gourmet Tart has brunch down to a fine art. Excellent coffee, the choice of a pastry or English Muffins with eggs and bacon. Really good food and a walk on the prom before or after will reduce any weekend guilt you might suffering from.
If there was a competition for alternative brunch, then go for a really, really good falafel. Only available on Saturdays, the Galway Falafel van, down the market by St. Nicholas Church, has epic queues, but does amazing falafel wraps as big as your head and well worth the wait.
By Cáit Power. Originally published on DailyEdge.ie.
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Good for him. He saw a niche and filled it.
That’s what she said.
That’s really quite a clever idea, fair play to him for taking the initiative.
Them awards are a load of rubbish one so called entrepreneur won an award for making paper cups.
@ Jack – Fox won because he took on the chinese large volume only, two month wait manufacturers. “Cupprint offers a minimum order quantity of 1,000 cups for marketing companies and 5,000 for retail/cafes in a turnaround time of 15 days anywhere in Europe.” He also managed to create employment in this country in 2009. We need more people like this.
I read their story in the paper few months ago. Before they came along you had to get big orders from China with a 8 week turnaround time, now their process can do it in days and they’re supplying orders of all sizes to all over Europe from Ireland.
It’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and take pot shots and people who got out there in the world and did things. Most people wait around for life to happen to them, we need people, even if they’re a small number, who don’t wait around, who do things on their own initiative.
At least the business he set up was useful, unlike Sutherlands former Goldman buddies who make money on pointless nonsense like moving steel around to diff warehouses to artificially restrict the supply and make money off the ensuing spike in prices, and who lets not forget, were at the centre of the subprime mortgage scam that brought down the global economy.
We need entrepreneurs who actually provide goods and services and while this might seem like a small deal to you, I’m sure the people using it see the benefit.
And prey tell, what do you do for a living Jack? How many jobs have you created? How much wealth? How many families are paying mortgages and bills through something you set up?
Ciaran, I own 2 businesses and Im involved as a silent partner is 4 others also I own 6 houses that are rented out. In 1983 I invented a well known household product that I sold on for a tidy profit. At the moment I am looking at inventing a new form of transport so watch this space.
Well done Jack we need more people like you in Ireland
@ Jack – and you did’nt get an award. Sour grapes?
What’s your full name Jack?
Hi Mark!
A question on the product – is the money transferred out of the Country subject to an ‘exit tax’ for example?
Congratulations to all winners, except Peter Sunderland of course.
What’s your problem with Suds??
Best friend of Denis
Best friend of Denis ,must need to raise a few bobs.
Best friend of Denis ,he must need to raise money
This Sutherland thing is a sick joke. A ruthless character. How twisted can things get in the rarefied air of the unknowing?
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