Aniar is a Michelin-starred restaurant located in Galway’s West End. Our food comes from the specific place that is the west of Ireland. We hope to reveal the distinct and various foodstuffs that make up our particular landscape, through our farms, the wildlands and the shores that surround us. The natural course of the seasons dictates our ever-changing and evolving menu.

The kitchen is led by Chef Patron Jp McMahon. Alongside using wild and foraged local ingredients, Jp likes to foster old traditional cooking and preservation methods, such as curing, pickling, smoking and fermenting. His aim is to look back in order to look forward: to the future of Irish food. It is only by understanding our culinary past that we can unlock the untapped resources of our future.

Our tasting menu is an immersive dining experience of Irish food through the ages with a contemporary filter.

Aniar is also home to a Boutique Cookery School offering one day workshops and private classes. The classes are all delivered by Jp in his very personable style, perhaps best described best by a recent class participant- 

'With a collaborative spirit and shared leadership style, Jp guided our small group through a hands-on apprenticeship, encouraging shared discovery rather than direct instruction.'