Kilkenny Food Tours: Taste Kilkenny with a Local Guide
Eat your way around the beautiful medieval city of Kilkenny with a friendly local guide! Over 2.5 hours, you will sample delicious produce from artisanal producers whi...
Rive Gauche is a wine bar in Medieval Mile, Kilkenny.
Editorially verified May 29, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Seasonal Irish sharing plates with French influence
Eat your way around the beautiful medieval city of Kilkenny with a friendly local guide! Over 2.5 hours, you will sample delicious produce from artisanal producers whi...
Experience one of Kilkenny's most visited attractions at the Smithwick's brewery in Kilkenny. Learn about the brewing innovations and discover the family behind one of...
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Address: 2 The Parade, Kilkenny
Louie's on Patrick Street is a Parisian-inspired cafe bar with natural wines and small plates in a leather-banquette room near Kilkenny Castle.
Signature pour: Natural wine of the week by the glass
Wine focus: Natural and European wines by the glass
Food: Small plates Thursday through Saturday
Rinuccini at The Parade maintains one of Ireland's most serious Italian wine collections, a cellar of 12,000 bottles sourced directly from Italian vineyards.
Signature pour: House Brunello di Montalcino or Barolo by the glass
Wine focus: Italian wines, cellar of over 12,000 bottles
Food: Full Italian dining menu
Campagne's wine list matches its Michelin kitchen, a curated French and European selection chosen by sommelier Brid Hannon for each tasting-menu course.
Signature pour: Sommelier-selected pairing with the tasting menu
Wine focus: Classic French and European fine wine
Food: Full Michelin-starred tasting menu
Zuni on Patrick Street keeps a well-chosen wine list with genuine sommelier attention, matching the modern Irish kitchen's seasonal produce course by course.
Signature pour: Seasonal wine pairing with the dinner menu
Wine focus: Modern Irish and European wines
Food: Full modern Irish dining menu
The Grapevine on Rose Inn Street is a long narrow tapas room near Kilkenny Castle, the wine list shortlisted with Le Caveau and weighted toward small Spanish.
Signature pour: Spanish reds from the Light, Juicy and Full Opulent style sections, by the glass from approximately €6.65
Wine focus: Spanish and small-producer European wines supplied by Le Caveau, organised by style with bottles from approximately €25
Food: Spanish tapas, paella for two, antipasti boards and bruschetta
Louie's on Patrick Street is a Parisian-inspired cafe bar with natural wines and small plates in a leather-banquette room near Kilkenny Castle.
Signature pour: Natural wine of the week by the glass
Wine focus: Natural and European wines by the glass
Food: Small plates Thursday through Saturday
Arán on Barrack Street keeps a short but considered natural wine list to pair with its award-winning brunch and lunch menu in a genuine farm-bistro setting.
Signature pour: Natural wine from small Irish and European producers
Wine focus: Irish and European natural wines
Food: Seasonal brunch and lunch plates
Rinuccini at The Parade maintains one of Ireland's most serious Italian wine collections, a cellar of 12,000 bottles sourced directly from Italian vineyards.
Signature pour: House Brunello di Montalcino or Barolo by the glass
Wine focus: Italian wines, cellar of over 12,000 bottles
Food: Full Italian dining menu
Campagne's wine list matches its Michelin kitchen, a curated French and European selection chosen by sommelier Brid Hannon for each tasting-menu course.
Signature pour: Sommelier-selected pairing with the tasting menu
Wine focus: Classic French and European fine wine
Food: Full Michelin-starred tasting menu
Zuni on Patrick Street keeps a well-chosen wine list with genuine sommelier attention, matching the modern Irish kitchen's seasonal produce course by course.
Signature pour: Seasonal wine pairing with the dinner menu
Wine focus: Modern Irish and European wines
Food: Full modern Irish dining menu
The Grapevine on Rose Inn Street is a long narrow tapas room near Kilkenny Castle, the wine list shortlisted with Le Caveau and weighted toward small Spanish.
Signature pour: Spanish reds from the Light, Juicy and Full Opulent style sections, by the glass from approximately €6.65
Wine focus: Spanish and small-producer European wines supplied by Le Caveau, organised by style with bottles from approximately €25
Food: Spanish tapas, paella for two, antipasti boards and bruschetta