An award-winning restaurant in Galway has been ranked as one of the best in the world by its inclusion on a prestigious list, becoming the only dining establishment in Ireland to be featured.
Aniar on Dominick Street already holds a Michelin star for its word-class food and has recently been recognised by La Liste 2024 as being worthy of inclusion in its Top 1,000 restaurants in the world.
Aniar was ranked with 81 stars out of a possible 100, being tied for joint 36th place with restaurants from Lisbon, Geneva, Shanghai and Bordeaux.
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The list is said to be based on an analysis by an algorithm of 1,070 international sources, including international media and travel guides as well as online reviews.
It’s truly a massive honour for the West End establishment which prides itself for serving food inspired and sourced from the West of Ireland.
Aniar is led by chef patron JP McMahon and has been serving customers quality dishes from ingredients found in the West since 2011.
One of the restaurant’s goals, according to JP, is to inspire diners to notice the ingredients that can be found naturally around them in everyday life.
“Aniar is an Irish word and it means ‘from the west’. All our cuisine comes from there. I want food to be part of our everyday experience. I want people to come into Aniar to try the food and then to go out back into their landscape and recognise the foods we use, to feel a little more home in their landscape,” JP said.
“I think people are surprised at the amount of food we have here in Ireland that they don’t really focus on. In particular the seaweed, the wild sea vegetables.”
The restaurant recently announced that it would close in the early spring for a major redecoration that’s set to turn the mouth-watering eatery into “an entirely new restaurant space”.
Next Wednesday 29 November the restaurant will be hosting a ‘Chef Swap’ collaboration with Ciaran McSweeney of the Olde Glen in Carrigart, Co Donegal.
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