The Fisherman's bar is attached to Waterville's central hotel, the Butler's Arms. Charlie Chaplin once stayed there, so there's a statue of the little tramp on the sea front promenade.

The Fisherman's is where most of the 'decent' locals drink. The stoners and the drunks and the GAA-heads all have their own bars in this wee town, and this is one of the best.

There are open fires, clean loos, comfortable seating and come the evening, it's packed. You can have a good night in nearly any bar in Waterville, but this place is one of the best.

There's only one street, you can't miss it.

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Very good French restaurant, with all the hallmarks of the best food from about twenty years ago - very heavy sauces, crap ignored veg in little individual portions (though they will do a fresh large portion of a particular veg if you ask), Broadway opera hits for music or, worse, the pianist could be in. Teamed up with plush red everywhere and it's like walking into your favourite restaurant in 1989.

That said the food is brilliant, if heavy. There's great seafood, indeed it's so close to the sea that on stormy nights the waves sometimes crash over the road and on to the windows. The portions are generous. Whilst it is decidedly expensive it is worth it, if only to feel as if nothing has ever really changed at all.

Waterville
Tel: 353 66 947 4124

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