The Oar - Crosshaven

The owners of this restaurant are lovely and helpful. The location is beautiful with a wonderful view. The atmosphere is very friendly.

This restaurant is a hidden treasure with an incredible view.

We really enjoyed our meal in this establishment. We shared a starter of perfect crispy well flavoured squid. Our main courses were an excellent Portuguese style Cataplana seafood stew) and a really tasty Hake with Beetroot cream sauce. Deserts were a berry roulade and a well filled apple tart with crème anglaise. Service by Rebecca was faultless. The only negative was that we were seated on an outside balcony and people were smoking beside us which was unnecessary as there were plenty of food free places for smokers. We will definitely return again soon.

Lovely place. Staff couldn't be more helpful. Provided a delicious chowder to two tired and hungry sailors despite kitchen not actual serving at the time, and helped us on our way to the airport. All care very much appreciated.

Called in for dinner early on a Sunday afternoon to find both fish dishes on the already limited menu offerings were sold out. Considering its location overlooking the harbour this shouldn't really happen however one must consider the difficulties of offering extensive menu's due to Covid etc, and also as it was early afternoon we may possibly have landed between lunch and dinner. We reluctantly ordered the slow cooked brisket from the few options remaining and whilst it is not a dish I would purposefully order, I must admit it was very tender and flavoursome, served with mash, carrot, beetroot and romanesco cauliflower. The dish was well rounded and ate very well albeit that it was on the small side. We found the servers to be pleasant and efficient, however the restaurant was cold at our time of dining and we also unfortunately began our meal just before the commencement of a very noisy children's party. It is a beautiful setting and I would certainly stop for lunch again if in the area, but probably would not travel especially for it.