For €2m, busy Bantry restaurant and bar may be a snug fit for buyers

Snug Bar and restaurant Bantry.

ONE of West Cork’s busiest restaurant/bars, The Snug in Bantry, is for sale with a very strong turnover and daily ‘covers’ of as much as 400 and 500 meals a day underpinning a substantial asking price of €2m.

The proposed sale of The Snug comes as owner and chef Maurice O’Donovan retires after 34 years in the business. It bookends an over 45-year hospitality career that started with Cert at age 15, and later working in Galway’s Tavern on Eyre Square, the GSH Rosslare and Switzerland, before taking on The Snug in 1991 and building a substantial trade and top reputation.