O'malley's - Tullamore

There is a wide variety of food options to choose from at this restaurant. They also offer bar food and early bird menus. The staff is excellent and the prices are very reasonable.

We are currently staying at the central hotel and decided to dine at the bar restaurant located in the hotel. We chose the early bird menu priced at €20 for 2 courses and €25 for 3 courses. Unfortunately, our experience was not pleasant. The garlic mushrooms were hard and my 10 oz steak seemed to be much smaller after removing the fat and gristle. The chips were tasteless and frozen, the pepper sauce was fine but the onion rings were just okay. My partner's chocolate fudge cake was cold and dry, not seeming to be homemade. The white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake was average. Overall, we were disappointed with the meal and feel we could have found a much better dining experience for our €50. We would not recommend this restaurant.

There were only around 10 patrons in the restaurant, but our food took a long time to arrive and everything we ordered was deep-fried.

Unfortunately our evening meal in O’Malley’s Restaurant did not live up to expectations. The children’s menu consisted of the usual sausages/nuggets/burgers and chips, while they did have a pasta option, it was served with a plain tomato sauce. My twin daughters decided to share an adult portion of Carbonara and thankfully there was no issue with doing this. My sons both chose burgers and chips while I went for their special of a steak sandwich with pepper sauce, salad and chips. I also ordered a baby bowl (soup and mash) for my youngest son. The restaurant was very quiet the night we dined; there were only two other tables occupied. One by a couple and the other by a lone diner, despite this service was extremely slow. Little things like having to remind our waiter to bring the baby bowl as soon as he could as the baby was getting hungry and I was anxious that he’d disturb the other diners and having to remind him to bring back the baby’s bottle after he heated it. While my children enjoyed their dinner, unfortuantely I did not, there was more gristle than steak on the ciabatta and no pepper sauce but rather a couple of dots of bottled BBQ sauce. I advised the waiter of this when he eventually came to take our plates; his response was that I should have told him. I decided against dessert but the children all wanted some ice cream so they ordered a scoop each, which we weren't charged for. After a long wait, I resorted to sending my daughter out to the bar to find our waiter so we could ask for our bill, after receiving it and waiting a further 20 minutes to pay I decided to go pay at reception as I wanted to get the children to bed and couldn’t wait any longer. On the way to reception we found our waiter in the bar chatting. I paid our bill of €40 and expressed my dissatisfaction at being charged for my meal which I didn’t eat. In fairness, when I got back to the room I received a call from the duty manager to advise the price of my meal would be credited to our room account. As I had prepaid our room and we had no other bill I decided to just leave them with the credit as we checked out.

Good restaurant in good hotel. Breakfasted here every day on recent stay in hotel. Would recommend it to guests