About Us

Who are we

everything you want to know about us

Eala Bhán Restaurant is situated in the heart of Sligo town, The Land of Hearts Desire.

Eala Bhán offers the best in fine dining, specialising in fresh produce.

Our menu features dishes which are made with the finest local fresh ingredients. Our offerings are based entirely on market availability, and we focus on simplicity, seasonal preparations and regionally inspired dishes. Eala Bhán offers a menu that lives and breathes right along with our seafood, meat and vegetarian dishes. All of our local seafood is hand-selected and artistically prepared to perfection. All of our steak cuts stand tall with the superb flavour of aged beef that is cooked to your liking. So… Relax… and enjoy all that Eala Bhán Restaurant has to offer.

The name Eala Bhán is gaelic for “White Swan”. These beautiful birds can often be seen from the two main windows of the restaurant and often frequent the beautiful stretch of the Garavogue river that runs alongside the restaurant.

Sligo’s Irish name Sligeach – meaning shelly place – allegedly originates from the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary and from the extensive ‘shell middens’ or Stone Age food preparation areas in the vicinity. The river (now known as the Garavogue ‘rough river’) was also called The Sligeach. The Ordanance Survey letters of 1836 state that “cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town and indeed underneath this restaurant. This whole area, from the river estuary at Sligo, around the coast to the river at Ballysadare Bay, is rich in marine resources which were utilised as far back as the Mesolithic period.

The county of Sligo is also known as Yeats County. The poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats spent much of his childhood in northern Sligo and the county inspired much of his poetry. Yeats said, “the place that has really influenced my life most is Sligo”. On a summers evening it’s a joy to watch the sun set while strolling along the river which has an abundance of wildlife. On a winter’s night, cosy up to a loved one and listen to the wind whistle down over the river as the moon light bounces and reflects off the torrents.