Bridgestone Guides 2007

MacNean Restaurant

Blacklion, Co Cavan in Co. Cavan

Neven Maguire

Tel: +353 (0) 71-985 3022

Contact: info@macneanrestaurant.com

“I come from a small rural border village called
Blacklion in County Cavan and I thank God for that good fortune every day. There is an ancient African proverb that says ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. I couldn’t agree more.”

Ask yourself for the secrets of Neven Maguire’s extraordinary success – and lets be honest here, at this stage he is a superstar – and you will find it in these lines from his book,Cooking for Family and Friends. Maguire’s world is microcosmic: he may travel in the larger world, but the world he inhabits is tiny, specific, and self-contained. He finds the universe in Blacklion.
That is why we are all happy to travel to Blacklion to eat and stay in this extraordinary restaurant, for we enjoy the cooking of the local man in his locality, in his world. And what cooking: inspired, technically immaculate, passion-filled: mallard with lentils and roast garlic; veni- son with cabbage and chocolate sauce; quail with truffle and pea risotto, and those grandstanding desserts – pear croustade with vanilla parfait; raspberry panna cotta; figs in crème cassis, brilliance in every bite.

6pm-9pm Wed-Sun; 1pm & 3.30pm Sun (closed Wed low season). Closed Jan

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On the main street in Blacklion, in the centre of the village, which itself is just on the border with Northern Ireland.

www.macneanrestaurant.com