Bridgestone Guides 2007

Cherry Tree Restaurant

Lakeside, Ballina, Killaloe, Co Clare in Co. Clare

Harry McKeogh

Tel: +353 (0) 61-375688

Contact: cherrytreerestaurant@gmail.com

“Mine is a ‘tepid’ cuisine, a cuisine of whispers, a cuisine where I seek inspidity in every sense... It’s a new tone,

Many people think that what gets attention is shouting. It’s not. To whisper is subversive. I love these plants that are melancholic, that whisper”.
This quote, from the truly great Andoni Luis Aduriz
of Mugaritz restaurant in Spain’s San Sebastian,could have been coined to describe the cooking that Harry McKeogh and Falk Hammer are producing right now in The Cherry Tree. “Not the conventional wow! attack of flavours, more a subtle discursion through tastes and textures” was what we noted after a superlative dinner this year. We also noted that the terrine of king crab with basil mascarpone, and the roast Barbary duck with
rosemary dumplings, were both particularly special, but in truth dinner for all the McKennas was simply flawless, and we loved the fact that unusual ingredients such as kohlrabi, celeriac, and razor clams were used. Just fab.

6pm-10pm Wed-Sat, 12.30pm-3pm Sun

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Drive through Ballina village, turn left towards the bridge and right at Molly’s pub, towards Lakeside Hotel.

www.cherrytreerestaurant.ie