Lemon Tree

Top choice in County Donegal


This family-run restaurant is widely considered one of the best places in the county to sample contemporary Donegal cooking. The innovative menu offers an excellent choice of fresh seafood, poultry and meat dishes sourced locally and prepared with French flair. There's a good wine list, too.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby County Donegal attractions

1. Main Street

0.06 MILES

Letterkenny's long, sloping main street is graced by a cute little market square halfway down. This is the most attractive part of the town, with a…

2. Donegal County Museum

0.46 MILES

Letterkenny's 19th-century workhouse, built to provide Famine relief, now houses the local museum. The permanent collection offers 8000-plus artefacts…

3. Newmills Corn & Flax Mills

3.15 MILES

Parts of this complex date back four centuries to a time when water was the main source of power for multiple tasks, such as grinding grain. One of…

4. Old Tullyaughnish Church

7.08 MILES

The roofless ruins of 17th-century Old Tullyaugnish Church are special because of the Romanesque carvings in the eastern wall, taken from a far older…

5. Colmcille Heritage Centre

7.27 MILES

Colmcille's Hall of Fame is this comprehensive heritage centre on the shore of Lough Gartan in a wooded grove, with a lavish display on the production of…

6. Glebe House & Gallery

7.7 MILES

The English painter Derrick Hill bought this 1828 mansion in 1953, providing him with a mainland base close to his beloved Tory Island. Sumptuously…

7. St Colmcille's Abbey & Birthplace

8.23 MILES

The 10th-century ruins of Colmcille's abbey lie on a hillside to the north of Lough Gartan and northwest of Lough Nacally, beside a 16th-century chapel…

8. Glenveagh National Park

10.89 MILES

Lakes shimmer like dew in the mountainous valley of Glenveagh National Park. Alternating between great knuckles of rock, green-gold swaths of bog and…