Address10 The Strand,Portaferry, Newtownards BT22 1PE In a recent English Sunday newspaper, a correspondent described Northern Ireland as ‘a gastronomic desert devoid of good hostelries’. Here in dreamy Portaferry you will find Northern Ireland’s answer. Not a luxurious hotel by any means, here you will find no five-star candlelit restaurant with luxurious upholstery, no extravagant […]
Address10 Church St,Portaferry,NewtownardsBT22 1LS It’s just impossible not to notice the colourful green and white frontage of this ‘jewel of a pub’ in the heart of Portaferry. If you look closely at both sides of the attractive swinging sign of an Irish fiddler sitting on a bollard – begorrah, you’d swear he was winking at […]
Address37-39 High St,BangorBT20 5BE You’ve seen “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ – – now here’s “Cart on a Hot Inn Roof’, because perched right up on top of this over-21s pub is an actual 90-year-old farmyard cart: surely an unusual way to underline the notion of a taste of the country in the heart […]
Address4 Regent St, NewtownardsBT23 4LH This long-established and popular haunt of Ards folk down the years is now a veritable warren of bars since its recent overhaul and development. The result is five bars in total, each attractive and distinctive in its own right, and all combining to produce a pleasing unity of structure and […]