An Port Mór is best Mayo restaurant

An Port Mór is best Mayo restaurant


Áine Ryan
aineryan@mayonews.ie

QUALITY local produce may be that secret ingredient for award-winning chef and owner of Westport restaurant, An Port Mór. Creating sumptuous menus for his large clientele is a passion for Frankie Mallon who was recently included in John and Sally McKenna’s Guide, 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland 2013.
Add to this the fact that last week An Port Mór was named Best Restaurant in Mayo at the Connaught Regional Final of the Santa Rita Irish Restaurant Awards 2013 and one must conclude that he and his chefs are using the right ingredients for their broad-ranging menu that showcases the many local artisan producers in Mayo.
“We are only opened four years and feel it is a decent achievement to get into the McKenna guide of top 100 restaurants. I put it down to the dedication of all our staff, both chefs and front-of-house. An Port Mór is very much a team operation,” Frankie Mallon told The Mayo News yesterday.
“Local sourcing of our food products is a priority for us and we are delighted that 90 per cent of our menu is sourced in County Mayo. Our clientele loves the fact that ‘we get the flavour of the county’ as the McKennas put it,” he continued.
Mr Mallon said the team would now do its best to go forward in the Santa Rita competition, which will announce its regional and national finalists in Dublin on June 10 next.

Mayo winners
OTHER Mayo finalists in the restaurant awards were for Best Customer Service: Market Kitchen (Ballina); Best Gastro Pub, Bar One (Castlebar); Best Casual Dining, Cafe Rua (Castlebar); Best Hotel Restaurant, Kitchen Restaurant @ Mount Falcon Hotel (Ballina); Best Chef, Philippe Farineau, Mount Falcon Hotel; Best Kids Size Meal, Sol Rio (Westport) and Engaging with the Gathering, Wilde’s @ Lisloughrey Lodge (Cong).

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