# The best traditional Irish dishes

Ireland's classic comfort food, from Irish stew to boxty, picked from Wikipedia's list of Irish dishes and Irish food guides.

- 17 votes · 13 items
- Oct 1, 2026 · dublincarguy
- https://even.best/en/l/331/the-best-traditional-irish-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Irish stew** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Lamb or mutton slow-cooked with potatoes, onions and carrots; often called the national dish.
2. **Colcannon** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mashed potato with kale or cabbage, butter and milk, a Halloween tradition.
3. **Dublin coddle** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sausages, bacon, potatoes and onions slow-cooked, Dublin comfort food.
4. **Beef and Guinness stew** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Beef braised in stout with root vegetables.
5. **Boxty** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Potato pancake of grated and mashed potato, flour and buttermilk, from the north-west.
6. **Full Irish breakfast** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rashers, sausages, black and white pudding, eggs, tomato and soda bread.
7. **Bacon and cabbage** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Boiled back bacon with cabbage, potatoes and parsley sauce.
8. **Champ** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mashed potato with spring onions and a well of butter.
9. **Seafood chowder** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Creamy fish and shellfish soup served with brown bread.
10. **Galway Bay oysters** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Native oysters celebrated at the Galway International Oyster Festival since 1954.
11. **Soda bread** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bread leavened with bicarbonate and buttermilk, brown or white.
12. **Smoked salmon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Irish wild or organic salmon cold-smoked, on brown bread.
13. **Barmbrack** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fruit bread baked with a ring inside for Halloween.

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