COUNTY GALWAY FAVOURITES

Seaweed

Once a local staple, the region’s vitamin-rich kelps, wracks and dulses are back, cropping up on restaurant menus as seasoning and in stocks and salads. Connemara-based Mungo Murphy’s Seaweed Co offers foraging walks that showcase these sea vegetables, which are then plated up with shellfish alongside stunning sea views. mungomurphyseaweed.com

Food trucks

Connemara’s food truck scene is thriving.

Sitting amid the mountains on Kylemore Lough, Dooncastle Oysters’ van dishes up bivalves from acclaimed oysterman John Ward. For more epic views, plus great coffee, pastries and local mussels, head to the Misunderstood Heron, overlooking Killary Fjord. dooncastleoysters. com; misunderstoodheron.com

Below: Abalone with sea lettuce, pepper dulse and sea spaghetti, served up after a foraging walk with Mungo Murphy’s Seaweed Co