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 […]
Address43 Rowreagh Rd, Kircubbin,NewtownardsBT22 1AR If you like being at the dead centre, the Saltwater Brig is about as close you can get, because right next door is the graveyard of neighbouring Lisbane Church, the one used as a setting in the film of Sam Hanna Bell’s locally based novel DECEMBER BRIDE. crew, cast and […]