CellarOne

The room I booked at our Killarney hotel, The Ross, came with daily breakfast and one dinner at their restaurant, CellarOne.
The restaurant is one level below the trendy and beautiful bar and lounge, and has a stunning upscale ambience, not industrial, but warm and welcoming. As with many restaurants in Ireland, they offer a two or three-​course prix fixe menu; here it was 29 or 39 euro, a quarter to a third higher than the usual run-​of-​the-​mill place. But it was definitely worth it, even if it hadn’t been included with our room.
Ours was the two-​course; we could choose either a starter or dessert, so we had starters. Mine was the spinach/​rocket/​strawberry/​walnuts/​fried goat cheese salad. I don’t like rocket (we call it arugula), and it was no problem to have that changed to lettuce. It came with a raspberry walnut dressing, and was delicious. My husband chose Risotto over an Arrabbiata/​tomato jam sauce. They turned up as three plump Italian rice balls, and the dish was equally delectable.
My husband had the Linguine Pasta for his main. It was outstanding, and I wish I’d ordered it, too. But I picked the prawns. I had high hopes, since everything else had been so good. Alas, they were awful, with a strange, unidentifiable taste, not quite iodine-​y although, since I’ve never dined on iodine, maybe that’s what it was. The manager, Miriama, was apologetic and so willing to swap it for something else, but I was already full and was satisfied with a very good cup of coffee.
If this hadn’t been marred by the terrible prawns, it would have been a 5-​star rave. But overall, the dining experience was so lovely, and the service and ambience so good, that I have to give it 4.