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Blairs Cove House & Restaurant

Category: Country House, Restaurant

Durrus
Bantry
Co Cork
Tel: +353 (0)27 62913

Capacity Seated: 110

Blairs Cove House & Restaurant

What a wonderful venue for a wedding: Philippe and Sabine de Mey’s beautiful property enjoys a stunning waterside location at the head of Dunmanus Bay, in West Cork. Philippe and Sabine still offer accommodation, but the restaurant has now been leased and is run independently by Gaby and Elk Stubner, restaurant manager and chef, respectively. There are no obvious changes and the style of cooking remains the same too.

Although additions over the years have enlarged the restaurant considerably - including an elegant conservatory overlooking a courtyard garden - the original room at this remarkable restaurant is lofty, stone-walled and black-beamed, with a magnificent chandelier as its central feature, gilt-framed family portraits on the walls, generous use of candles - and the superb insouciance of using their famous grand piano to display an irresistible array of desserts.

They have things down to a fine art at Blairs Cove - and what a formula: a central buffet displays the legendary hors d’oeuvre selection, a speciality that makes a great talking point to begin the wedding feast.

Main course specialities of local seafood or the best of meat (rib eye of beef, perhaps) and poultry are char-grilled at a special wood-fired grill right in the restaurant and then to finish there are those famous desserts, and perhaps some of the local farmhouse cheese for which West Cork is rightly renowned.

There is no wedding planning service or vintage car laid on here, but the venue will be decorated for you and a pianist will play during the meal. The food is terrific, service friendly and efficient and the ambience memorable: what more could anyone desire?