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AA Award
AA 4 Star Award

Winners of The Good Food Ireland Top Overall Members Award 2009
Good Food Ireland is a not-for-profit industry organisation driving food tourism for Ireland. It promotes the link between the food producer and the hospitality sector so as to steer visitors to places that are committed to using local food. Good Food Ireland promotes the people behind the food from the chef to the cheese maker and highlights the cultural relationship between a country, its people and its food.

Winners of Georgina Campbell’s Natural Food Award 2009
Georgina Campbell Guides is a small publishing company specialising in Irish food and hospitality that was established in 1997 by Georgina Campbell, the well-known food & travel writer. The Irish company’s flagship product is Georgina Campbell’s Ireland – the Guide (All The Best Places to Eat, Drink & Stay).

Winners of Bridgestone Guides’ Green Gourmet Award for Eco Friendliness 2009 – Electric Picnic
The central role of food at Electric Picnic was recognised in 2008 by the first Bridgestone Guide Electric Picnic Awards, when four outstanding vendors were chosen by the judges to receive awards recognising their singular and delicious efforts to source and serve exceptional food to the festivalgoers. The winners each received a Bridgestone Best in Ireland Plaque and a specially commissioned piece of Rosemarie Durr pottery.
This year four awards will once again be presented to those vendors considered by the judges as the people producing the Best Dressed Food Award for presentation and style; the Healthy Buzz Award for seriously healthy food; the Greenest Gourmet Award for eco-friendliness; and the On Our Doorstep Award for the best use of local and regional ingredients.

Bord Bia’s Just Ask Restaurant of the month July 2009
The ‘Just Ask Restaurant of the Month’ award is organised in association with Bord Bia and the Georgina Campbell Ireland Guide.
Winning restaurants are chosen on the basis of their commitment to provide transparency to diners – crediting suppliers and identifying country of origin for meat on their menus
To enter the competition, chefs are asked to submit their menus to Georgina Campbell which are then judged on the information provided about the sourcing of their ingredients.


May 2008 - Double delight for the Rathmullan House team as there is huge success for the chefs first ever food fair and the hotels top industry award of four AA Stars and two Rosettes! The AA awards are prestigious awards that draw on the unrivalled knowledge and experience of the AA inspectorate and other industry professionals involved in the judging process. Rathmullan House will now be listed in its 2008 AA Lifestyle Guide as four stars for its service and accommodation and two rosettes for it's Weeping Elm Restaurant and Cellar Bar Eatery. The Lifestyle Guide is a modern guide that recommends AA-inspected properties, rated from one to five stars, within the UK and Ireland to plan a perfect break away with confidence.


Top 10 Breakfasts
Bridgestone Guide 100 Best Places to stay in Ireland 2008 

Country House of the Year 2008
Georgina Campbell's Ireland The Guide   
"Donegal has an other-worldiness that is increasingly hard to capture in the traditional family holiday areas, and the laid-back charm of Rathmullan House somehow symbolises that special sense of place"
Georgina Campbell, the (Jameson) guide   

Bridgestone
Guide100 Best Restaurants In Ireland 2007 

Bridgestone Guide 
100 Best Places To Stay In Ireland 2007

Food & Wine Magazine
Highly commended 2006 

Optimus Best Practice 
2006

Moreau Chablis Fish Dish
National Winner 2005

Feile Bia Egg Dish 
2005

Les Routiers Hotel of the Year 
2004 - 2005

Hotel and Catering Review
Country Houses and Guest Homes, Winner 2005



Ireland's Best Service Excellence Award
In 2002, 2003 and 2004 Rathmullan House was presented with Ireland's Best Service Excellence award.The award, which is operated by CERT and audited independently, is designed to promote and recognise establishments that have demonstrated a high level of service excellence and strong commitment to the customer.

Breakfast Award
In January 2002, we were Ulster winners of the Irish breakfast awards in association with Georgina Campbell's Jameson Guide.

In 2003, Rathmullan House were runners up in the Gilbey's Hotel of the Year award and Les Routiers Hotel of the Year - Highly recommended.

RAC Four Star Rating

Author Dermot Bolger
24 Jul 2006
Irish author Dermot Bolger stayed in Rathmullan House with his family while researching his novel the family on paradise pier, based on the Goold Verschoyle family, Read on
Tom Bruce Gardyn
24 Jul 2006
Award-winning Scottish food, drink and travel writer Tom Bruce-Gardyn, author of the best-selling ‘Scotch Whisky Book’, wrote about Rathmullan House for the Sunday Telegraph - Read on
Tom Doorley
24 Jul 2006
One of Ireland’s best-known food writers, Tom Doorley, made Rathmullan House his entry for Donegal in his review of the country’s top eating places for the Irish Times - Read on
Country Homes and Guest Houses
24 Jul 2006
Rathmullan House was the winner of the ‘Country Homes and Guest Houses’ section in the 2005 Awards of the industry’s magazine, Hotel and Catering Review. Read on
Busters Diaries
24 Jul 2006
One of Britain’s best-known dogs, Buster, author of ‘Buster’s Diaries’, stayed in Rathmullan House with The Man (his owner Lord Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour Party). Read on

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