i am looking for two specific restaurants in ireland, either in dublin
or in county kerry or county cork. The names are: Anteroom and
Tigantobair (the latter could be several words but the spelling must
be as given)

Hello puzzleman

I believe I have found your restaurants. 
When "anteroom" proved no help as a search term I tried separating it
into the two words "ante room". This led to several sites mentioning 
"The Ante Room" restaurant in Dublin.

The Ante Room
The Georgian House Hotel 
20 Lower Baggot Street 
Dublin 2
Phone (01) 6625098
Fax (01) 6618834 

Ad Lib Guide to Dining in Ireland
http://www.adlib.ie/detailso.asp?ID=1162


"The Hotel is home to the Ante Room Restaurant which serves a broad
range of sea food and International cuisine, in a warm and relaxing
atmosphere. The restaurant also offers an excellent selection of
wines, and features traditional live Irish music several nights a
week."

UK Free Phone: 0800-018-3473 - US Toll Free: 866-770-1555
Telephone: +353-1-662-3528 - Fax: +353-1-662-3527
From a page about The Georgian Hotel:
http://dublinhotelsfinder.com/georgian-hotel/


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I believe your second restaurant is "Tigh an Tobair" in Ballyferriter,
in County Kerry. This is spelt as "Tig an Tobair" on some websites. As
I live in Scotland, I am familiar with the Gaelic word "tigh", meaning
"house", and started my search by guessing that "Tigh an Tobair" might
be the name you needed.


Tigh An Tobair
The House of the Well
coffee house - restaurant - wine bar

Ballyferriter, 
Dingle Peninsula, 
Co.Kerry, Ireland
Phone : +353 66 915 64 04 Fax : +353 66 915 65 26
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~antobair/rest.html


Website using the "Tig an Tobair" spelling:
http://www.foundmark.com/Ireland/rests/Ky-rests.html



Search on Irish sites only for:
"tig OR tigh an tobair"
://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22tig+OR+tigh+an+tobair%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryIE

General search for:
"tig OR tigh an tobair"
://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22tig+OR+tigh+an+tobair%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

"ante room" restaurant dublin OR cork OR kerry
://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%0D%0A%22ante+room%22+restaurant+dublin+OR+cork+OR+kerry&btnG=Google+Search&meta=



I hope this is useful. Please feel free to ask for clarification if
anything needs further explanation, or if any links fail to work.


Regards - Leli

leli, you are a genius!!! perfect answer, i am very happy.

Thank-you for the kind words and five stars. I'm happy that you're happy!