Restaurant review: The Chef’s Table by Stefan Matz, Co Galway

The Chef’s Table by Stefan Matz, Delphi Adventure Resort, Leenane, Connemara, Co Galway; 095-42208; delphiadventureresort.com

NEWLY established restaurants these days need a hook to snag customers. Great food is all well and good, goes the theory, but something else is needed to bring in the shekels, and that something is a name.

So far this year we have visited Avenue by Nick Munier and Marco Pierre White Steakhouse & Grill; on our to-do list is the rather unwieldy titled Taste at Rustic by Dylan McGrath. No doubt by the end of the year there will be more names, more restaurants, more snagging hooks to make you part with your money. We will warrant, however, that none of them will have as many boxes ticked off as The Chef’s Table by Stefan Matz.