Restaurant review: Aniar, Co Galway

I’VE got to come clean, I did not expect to enjoy this meal — boy was I wrong. 

Aniar (‘out of the West’) “is a ‘terroir’ based restaurant” — terroir being the favourite word of French winemakers as it doesn’t have an English translation.

Terroir-focused Burgundy should taste not just of the grapes but the soil and the minerals in that soil, the sunshine and the rain that fell on the vine, and also of the character of the vine grower and the winemaker.