Sol Rio Restaurant

This is a nice restaurant on the first and second floor with a good view on Bridge street, one of Westport's main streets. Food on the menu seems
to be quite expensive at first (at least it did to us) but is quite on par with the other restaurants nearby. While we were there, they offered a special menu with a selection of starter, main course and dessert for 25,95EUR which is a good offer.

For starter I chose Duck (with a french surname I can't remember ;-)). This was really good, it was basically roasted duck bits on toast and onions with some rucola on top, combined with apple sauce. An unusual combination which tasted very good.

Main course was lamp chop with goat cheese on mashed potatoes and a red whine sauce. Excellent except that this came with two side bowls with
vegetables and French Fries. The vegetables were okay, but the fries really didn't fit with it and weren't very good either.

For desert I chose Applepie with ice cream. The plate I got looked really amazing, unfortunately the taste wasn't as great. The pie's dough was too
dry, vanilla ice ceam would have better fitted than the chosen strawberry flavor and the additional berries where clearly thawed frozen food and tasted of nothing.

I got pretty good food for the money, but the little flaws made it hard to fully enjoy the meal here.

Excellent food, nice atmosphere-not like where you’re kinda staring at the walls between courses. Good value, regular haunt for locals as far as I know.