The Cook & Gardener

The Cook & Gardener is the restaurant at Rathmullan, on the western shore of Lough Swilly in County Donegal. The name signals the approach: a kitchen working closely with what the garden and the surrounding county produce.

Menus change with the seasons and vegetarian dishes are properly catered for rather than tacked on. The village of Rathmullan itself is worth time, with a long beach, the ruins of a friary and the history of the Flight of the Earls attached to its shoreline.