Mimosa Wine Bar

A definite ⁵⁄₅.
Mimosa is gorgeous! The staff are friendly and the restaurant itself is really cute, great lighting (which I have weird appreciation for) and lots of cosy seating! The food is really the winner here though. There’s a great selection, some of my favourites include the goats cheese & pear (Oh Lord!!), the prawns and chorizo, and the pulled pork with apple chutney. ²⁄₃ tapas per person are more than enough. They also have an extensive, reasonably priced wine list.
If you come with a group of six or more people the group choose around six tapas and they bring out a number of portions of each. It works about at about 15 euro per person and is fantastic value.
Not to be missed when in Carlow!

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent! Went here over xmas on a Monday. No problem with getting s table as we were early but it filled up quickly. The staff were friendly and the service was quick.
We ordered 3 tapas each which was more than enough. The sweet potato with chorizo and the goats cheese with Apple were amazing. The prawns were also really good.
If you’re in the neighbourhood, you won’t do much better than here.

Amazing tapas, super friendly staff and nice atmosphere — one of the best tapas restaurants I’ve been too!

Great atmosphere and really grrreat tapas.
Excellent selection of wines, beers and some interesting cocktails.
I highly recommend for a romantic night out and equally for group bookings. Plenty of space yet an intimate feel.

First time here a few weeks ago, I love the décor, it’s definitely the hidden gem of Carlow! Wouldn’t think it was so kitsch and cute from outside, or as big.
Gorgeous menu! I loved the fried risotto balls along with basically everything else I had a taste of that night. Great prices too and amazing wine selection. OMG that strawberry and marshmallow dessert with the coconut ice cream wow!!! And I’m usually never a dessert person.
Great ambience with a live dj too
Service from the wait staff was superb, will definitely be back again: D:D

Love, love, loved it here. The food and wine was just so great and we had a really funny and attentive waitress. When I come back to Ireland, I will definitely make this one of my stops.

Some of the food is nice and other is bad. I’m not sure if it depends on the chef or just the different dishes.
The Chilean Cabernet is very good, € 20/​bottle, I forgot the name.
There are some servers that are great and some that are just a joke. The owner is quite rude at times, so if you steer clear you’ll be fine.
The place is very nice inside and they have cool music on Sundays, like a Latin jazz vibe. The ambiance in the place is excellent.
Over all, the place is something different for Carlow the ambiance is great, and the food is ok.

Mmmmmmm wine and tapas! What’s not to like! Got these amazing tapas that were chilli beef… with chocolate!!! And nachos. It really shouldn’t work but it really did and tasted

You know with all this recession crapola going on and how everyone is scraping for pennies and can’t go out sometimes cos they are *trying* to get enough pennies saved to *maybe* (like) do a holiday this year?. or, like, maybe, emmm, if they save really hard and the government hasn’t raped us totally, well, at least get in one nice wee trip to the Med before their grandchildren come along? … or they die?
FORGET IT!. the recession ends the moment you walk into this wonderful place my little Unilocallets!
You don’t have to go to the Med to get the wonderful flavour of the place — its on our doorstep, and its called the Mimosa Wine Bar in Carlow. This wonderful little gem is not only hidden away on a side-​street (off a side street) but to confuse matters (and add to the general ambiance) is snugly positioned right inside its very own courtyard — how cool does it get! (way cooler actually…)
This intimate wine-​bar has an amazing array of Tapas, freshly prepared and superbly presented. It’s the coolest hangout I have been to in a long time — once you sit, you want to just stay, listen to the music, enjoy the wine (very nice selection, reasonably priced) and order more, and more Tapas… Now this isn’t Dublin Dorothy, so the prices are fantastic — one Tapa platter is € 5, making it the most reasonable evening out I’ve had with a friend in a long time.
Know what? … if you don’t have a shekel in your pocket right now, turn up your speakers, toddle along to the website and prepare to get your Latin Dancing shoes on … it makes me wanna salsa… (shuffle shuffle… spin, 1,2,3,.6,., 8.)… It’ll make you happy, trust me…
«It is not really, Boss-​a-​nooova, but we think that, yooou, will dig this…»
Now, excuse me, I’m a tad peckish and not having a sausage to spend, I’m heading to the Mimosa :)
ps: if you order the Delicacy known as the lamb skewers, see if you notice a resemblance to a certain bunny costume from the movie Donnie Darko: P