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Guinness beef stew is a signature dish of Ireland; we have verified places to eat it in Dublin and Galway. A long-simmered beef stew braised in Guinness Extra Stout with carrots, onions and a bay leaf, the working Dublin pub plate served with mash and brown bread.
A long-simmered beef stew braised in Guinness Extra Stout with carrots, onions and a bay leaf, the working Dublin pub plate served with mash and brown bread. Three hours minimum.
Beef in stout is older than Guinness, but the 1759 St James's Gate stout brewery formalised the recipe across Dublin pub kitchens. The classic Irish stew uses lamb and no stout; the beef and Guinness variant became the Dublin pub menu signature from the 1970s onwards. The dish needs three hours minimum to reduce the stout to a glossy syrupy gravy and to break the beef shin down. Every Dublin pub serves a version; the Brazen Head's is the city's reference, the Stag's Head and L. Mulligan Grocer's are the gastropub upgrades.
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Where to eat Guinness beef stew in Dublin: the editor picks
Ireland's defining pub stew: chunks of grass-fed Connacht beef braised long and slow with onion, carrot, parsnip and pearl barley in a dark Guinness gravy, served with buttered brown soda bread.
Beef and Guinness stew (also called Stobhach Gaelach) emerged in 19th-century Irish pubs as a slow-cooked pot dish using cheap beef cuts and the country's most accessible dark malt beer (Guinness, brewed in Dublin since 1759). The dish became the canonical pub-grub winter Sunday lunch across Ireland. Galway and Connacht versions include parsnip and pearl barley and lean toward grass-fed Connemara mountain beef. Galway pubs that run benchmark versions include Tigh Neachtain and The Quays Bar. The stew should braise at least 3 hours; the gravy should be glossy mahogany.
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Where to eat Guinness Beef Stew in Galway: the editor picks
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