{"id":21860,"date":"2014-06-16T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wdie.wedding-dates.com\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:01:15","slug":"belleek-castle-best-hotel-restaurant-connaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/belleek-castle-best-hotel-restaurant-connaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Belleek Castle: Best Hotel Restaurant in Connaught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21861\" title=\"Belleek Castle\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-03-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Belleek Castle\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great news for Belleek Castle, Ballina this week!! <a title=\"Belleek Castle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/venues\/belleek-castle-ballina-mayo-0star-61670\/\">Belleek Castle<\/a> took home the prestigious prize of Best Hotel Restaurant in Connaught at the Irish Restaurant Awards 2014. And the Mayo Hotel&#8217;s Restaurant Manager, Daniel Mayr, was also awarded the <em>Best Restaurant Manager in Connaught<\/em>! The \u201cFood Oscar\u201d crowns the Top Restaurants in Ireland. Over 900 restaurateurs and industry players came to attend Ireland\u2019s biggest Restaurant awards where Regional and All-Ireland Winners were announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Restaurant at Belleek Castle is the only venue in town that has won an RAI Award this year, and Maya, General Manager at the castle mentioned that they &#8220;are very proud to say we are flying the flag for Ballina!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21862\" title=\"Belleek Castle\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Belleek Castle\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-01-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Belleek-RAI-2014-Picture-01.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ms Maya Nikolaeva, Belleek Castle\u2019s General Manager had plenty of praise to offer when speaking of her team: \u201cWell done to my team, another award on the wall! Everybody at Belleek is working hard to make this possible. We are proud and delighted to receive this award and we are eager to improve even more!\u201d Head Chef Stephen Lenahan, a Ballina local who is famous for his innovative cookery, and Restaurant Manager Daniel Mayr are the dream team behind this amazing win for the castle. Daniel says: \u201cThe award is an achievement of great teamwork and commitment and everybody who is working here contributed to this great success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of hard work has gone into this fantastic result! The lead into 2014 has been excellent for us, also winning the Georgina Campbell&#8217;s &#8216;JUST ASK&#8217; Bord B\u00eda Restaurant of the Year.\u201d says Head Chef Stephen Lenahan. \u201cIt shows us that we are going in the right direction. Ballina is a great place to dine with several excellent restaurants, and Belleek Castle is setting new standards in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great news for Belleek Castle, Ballina this week!! Belleek Castle took home the prestigious prize of Best Hotel Restaurant in Connaught at the Irish Restaurant Awards 2014. And the Mayo Hotel&#8217;s Restaurant Manager, Daniel Mayr, was also awarded the Best Restaurant Manager in Connaught! The \u201cFood Oscar\u201d crowns the Top Restaurants in Ireland. Over 900 restaurateurs and industry players came to attend Ireland\u2019s biggest Restaurant awards where Regional and All-Ireland Winners were announced. The Restaurant at Belleek Castle is the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":21861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}