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Restaurant Review: Alaria

Harbour Hotel, Schull, West Cork

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John and Sally McKenna
Sep 04, 2025
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Life’s funny, isn’t it? I mean, you wait decades for a restaurant to come along that is named after an edible seaweed and then – who knew? – two of them open in the same month. First was Galway’s Kombu, quickly followed by West Cork’s Alaria, a neat room in the Schull Harbour Hotel, at the lower end of the Main Street in the village.

Schull is West Cork…

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