The Lantern Chinese Restaurant & Take Away - Ballina

The Lantern Chinese Restaurant & Take Away was established through a chance encounter in 1985 in Kites Chinese Restaurant, Ballsbridge Dublin, when a Ballina business couple who regularly dined in Kites offered and invited Head Chef, Sunny Ho to open Ballina’s first Chinese restaurant.

Sunny & his wife Loretta travelled to Ballina and instantly fell in love with the town and saw the potential it had for a Chinese Restaurant.

A few months later, The Lantern Chinese Restaurant & Take Away opened for business by the River Moy, where the old Murphy’s / Longnecks nightclub now stands.

Locals got their first ever taste of Chinese cuisine and they couldn’t get enough of it!