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10 Oct 2025

Celebrations as Tipperary hotel scoops top prize at national YesChef Awards

The GN Ballykisteen Golf Hotel in Tipp Town took home Local Restaurant of the Year

Ballykisteen Hotel

Great National Ballykisteen Golf Hotel took home a top prize from the YesChef awards

A Tipperary hotel's restaurant has scooped a top award from the YesChef Awards for 2025.

The Great National Ballykisteen Golf Hotel outside Tipperary Town took home the award for the Local Restaurant of the Year at the awards, which took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sligo.

The Tipperary hotel were nominated in six categories at the YesChef Awards.

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The local hotel was shortlisted in the Casual Dining Restaurant of the Year, Front of House Team of the Year, and Hotel Restaurant of the Year.

Their chef Billy Butler was shortlisted in the Chef of the Year category, while the restaurant was also nominated for Hotel Restaurant of the Year.

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The hotel was also shortlisted in the Social Media Award of the Year category.

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