Vanilla Pod Kells restaurant | Headfort Arms Hotel

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Jessie - Visited March 2022

Wonderful Evening. We attended our friends wedding in the vanilla pod. Everything was perfect from start to finish. The room was beautifully decorated and romantic, the food was delicious & plentiful. Lorina and her staff were so friendly and professional from start to finish. The attention to detail was perfect. First Time in the vanilla pod, but we will definitely be back. Thank you for a wonderful evening.

Aoife - Visited September 2021

Had a beautiful meal in the Vanilla Pod on Saturday night. Service as always super and food was particularly delicious. Prawn starter special was devine and hubbie said they were the best ribs ever! Deserts amazing and fab atmosphere. Thrilled to see the Headfort so busy and back in the full swing of things ❤

Denise - Visited June 2021

Garden Grill is Great! As staff in a local school we regularly visit the Vanilla Pod. However, in recent months, the Headfort have set up the Garden Grill and we booked here for our end of year lunch keeping to restrictions. Loreena & the team couldn't have been more attentive. We tried several different cocktails and they were all delicious!! The food was the usual high standard you expect from the Headfort and the new 'containers/packaging' had an almost festival vibe to it. I highly recommend the burger and the pizzas in the wood oven. Delighted to see businesses embracing compostable containers. The constant cleaning and staff awareness of heightened hygiene measures was clearly evident. Thanks again to everyone at the Headfort for a wonderful afternoon.

Dijana - Visited February 2020

Come here for dinner with friends. Absolutely delicious food, welcoming atmosphere and fantastic service!!!Love this place.....

Michele - Visited February 2020

The service and food at the Vanilla Pod is always 100%. Lareina and her staff were very attentive, friendly and professional

Sandra - Visited February 2020

Just fabulous - the food was delicious as always. Cannot recommend this restaurant highly enough. The service is alway superb - staff cant be any more helpful.

Jeff - Visited February 2020

Great service, food and value. Highly recommended restaurant in the heart of the town.

Julie - Visited February 2020

Really lovely meal, excellent service. The only complaint was that the tables were very tight together and the restaurant was quite loud. I actually couldn’t get out of my seat without asking the lady behind me to pull in her seat.

Tanya - Visited February 2020

I would highly recommend the Vanilla Pod. Staff are very welcoming. Manager Lareina is always highly efficient and her ability to multi task is second to none.

Donal - Visited January 2020

Always great. Went on Sunday evening. Kids eat free and their food was great as was ours

Lorna Campbell - Visited January 2020

Staff amazing and so friendly; food was great, the atmosphere was electric always a great spot

Tony O'Neill - Visited January 2020

My wife and I dined at the Vanilla Pod on the 19th of January 2020 to celebrate Aine's birthday. We found the staff to be excellent, The restaurant is a nice place to be except that on the night in question the background music was a little loud for our tastes. The tables looked a little bare and could have done either with full table clothes or perhaps red runners down the centre of each. The food was exceptional overall and good value for money but the chicken supreme could have had more peas included in the dish. We will be returning to the Vanilla Pod again in February for St. Valentine's Night.

Anita Halpenny - Visited December 2019

Top Nosh as always ... superb evening, delicious food, terrific service ... consistently good ... we will be back ... xxx

Susanne - Visited December 2019

Fabulous meal, very busy as being NYE but did not feel anything negative about that.

Brendan Hoey - Visited October 2019

Lovely food and brilliant service

Stuart Harpur - Visited September 2019

We were extremely happy with the food, service and value for money at the Vanilla Pod. I thought the service was excellent, they were very understanding and patient with the kids at our table, the timing of taking our order and delivering our food was perfect. We all agreed that the service was exemplary and the best we had experienced in a long time. The food itself was very tasty and we couldn't fault the value for money. Keep up the great work, we hope to be back very soon.

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