
The 2025 Irish Restaurant Award winners for county Laois
- Overall: Bowe’s Foodhall & Café
- Café: The Wandering Elk
- Casual Dining: Bowe’s Foodhall & Cafe
- Chef: Richard Piccard Edwards, Ballyfin Demesne
- Contemporary Irish Cuisine: The Hare’s Corner
- Customer Service: Batonis
- Employee Excellence Award: Colm Dunne, Treacy’s Bar and Restaurant
- Gastro Pub: Treacy’s Bar and Restaurant
- Hotel and Guesthouse Restaurant: Ballyfin Demesne
- Innovator: The Hare’s Corner
- Local Food Hero: Aymar Gourdet of Le Skinny Chef
- Newcomer: La Vie en Rose
- Pub: Morrissey’s
- Restaurant Manager: Kasia Urban, Bramley Abbeyleix
- Sustainable Practices: Ballykilcavan Farm and Brewery
- Use of Social Media: The Make & Mark
- Wine Experience: Ballyfin Demesne
- World Cuisine: Mayur Restaurant
2025 Irish Restaurant awards by county:
Antrim – Armagh – Carlow – Cavan – Clare – Cork – Derry – Donegal – Down – Dublin – Fermanagh – Galway – Kerry – Kildare – Kilkenny – Laois – Leitrim – Limerick – Longford – Louth – Mayo – Meath – Monaghan – Offaly – Roscommon – Sligo – Tipperary – Tyrone – Waterford – Westmeath – Wexford – Wicklow