Chowder for Lunch: the Dunmore East Classic Anchors the New Menu
The Spinnaker's Dunmore East seafood chowder was always the dish people drove out for. The problem was never the chowder — it was knowing when you could get it. That's fixed: with the new lunch menu, the chowder is on every single day, 1pm to 4pm, €13.50 with homemade brown bread.
What's in it
Cream-based and loaded the way a harbour chowder should be: salmon, smoked haddock, cod and mussels, with homemade brown bread on the side. No truffle oil, no garnish theatre — Dunmore East chowder stays plain and correct, and this is the village's benchmark bowl.
Why lunch is its moment
Chowder is a daylight dish. It belongs after a beach or a cliff path, eaten by a window with the boats moving outside. A bowl at half one with brown bread and butter is a complete meal — which is exactly the slot the new menu gives it, daily from 1pm to 4pm.
Build a lunch around it
Solo, it needs nothing. Sharing the table? Add a toastie (€6.95) for the small appetite, or go full harbour and follow it with the fresh crab on brown bread (€16) — the two most Dunmore East things on one table. The rest of the lunch list — six paninis, wraps, wings, mussels — is on the menu page.
Walk in most days, or ring (051) 383 133. Evening food hours still follow the season — this week's are on Facebook.
Book a table — go straight to Peter
Peter runs The Spinnaker Bar in Dunmore East — the kitchen and the bar himself — so booking goes direct to him. No app, no fee, no middleman. Lunch runs daily, 1pm to 4pm.
Or message Peter on the Spinnaker Facebook page — he checks it daily.