{"id":354089,"date":"2026-03-19T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:36:10","slug":"an-sibin-restaurant-review-the-first-surprise-at-this-old-rural-pub-is-the-chic-interior-the-second-is-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354089\/","title":{"rendered":"An S\u00edb\u00edn restaurant review: \u2018The first surprise at this old rural pub is the chic interior \u2013\u00a0the second is the menu\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOur critic takes a tasty trip down memory lane at this Beara peninsula gem where provenance is a priority\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An S\u00edb\u00edn in Lauragh, Co Kerry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IW An Sibin 2 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">An S\u00edb\u00edn in Lauragh, Co Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019d forgotten about the tame fox my cousins kept until I saw the cocktail \u2013 named The Fox and featuring Valentia Island vermouth, tonic and orange \u2013 listed on the menu at An S\u00edb\u00edn, Katherine Murphy\u2019s restaurant and wine bar in Lauragh, the sunlight-dappled backdrop to the summer holidays of my childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The small towns and villages of the Beara peninsula \u2013 we\u2019d rent houses in Kenmare, Ardgroom and Eyeries, Castletownbere and Allihies \u2013 were the places this temporary blow-in from England yearned for all year long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our critic takes a tasty trip down memory lane at this Beara peninsula gem where provenance is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,3412],"class_list":["post-354089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katy-mcguinness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}