Everything about this independent place is perfect. Y'know the way there's whiskey and then there's…read morewhiskey sorta think Jameson's and then ya have the 22 year old small batch about 12 times the price then ya have the 2007 rarest vintage at a mere £1300 a bottle. Similarly there's coffee and then there's coffee. Here ain't a Starbucks or Costa place as this coffee is ace quality, complex, deep, small batch, shade grown, carefully made and exquisite. The staff are friendly, care for community and the environment, don't have greedy shareholders who only care for loadsa money and it has a delightful ambiance. So not just five stars but five green stars to boot. Really worth supporting.

The food at this place was very good! The quantity of food is quite a bit if you get the Bread + 5…read more The quality is very high. The coffee and teas were excellent. The service was very good. The staff were friendly and were very accommodating. The facility was very well kept and clean with a coffee shop vibes. The only reason why I chose to not give 5 stars because they use their establishment to promote political stances. If any customer goes to your facility I'm pretty sure we want to get breakfast, coffee, or a snack that's it nothing more.

This is for their steakhouse. We had made a reservation for six and we sure had a great night's…read morecraic here. We joked a bit about the steep stair climb up to dine; the welcome was warm and the menus awaited us. It was two courses on their early-bird menu (£19.95) and early dining suits us. We also dine around and chose here as a new place to try out. The first challenge we faced was could we make it main and dessert rather than starter/main - we could - so the next challenge was choosing dessert as most of us wanted every dessert on the slate. We got to try some of their wheaten bread and it tasted superb. I think they sell the loaves. Two of us opted for vegetarian pasta which had great taste, but the spinach marred my dish; I found it chewed down into a ball and became an unpleasant eat. Might be worth swapping to basil. If I had the dish again I'd leave it off. Most of the others opted for their club sandwich main topped with fried egg and one had fish & chips: all declared their food very good. Why is it a club sandwich well it's Chicken and Lettuce Under Bacon. Desserts were delicious; the Eton Mess was the favourite choice. I had the creme brulee instead and I enjoyed it immensely, but the shortbread on the side wasn't my taste. I like it buttery, melting. My guess is it's not made with butter. The truth of it is that almost everything here is so very good that you become critical of the parts that aren't just as top notch. We finished with cappuccino and lattes and one tea but again I had a great cappuccino on arrival that carried me through to departure. We had arrived early and were delighted to see that the restaurant picked up and the atmosphere was great; despite becoming real busy with happy diners the wait staff remained completely attentive to our needs. I do hope we return soon, especially as there's another main I want to try.

Very nice place if you want to have a traditional irish meal where ever other restaurant has…read moreturned into a fast food etc this place has become the best to place to eat real food. Only bad thing i could say is the workers are a bit suttee.

This place proves you may have money but it don't buy class. It stays two stars but I did consider…read more1 star. For many years we've ordered our Christmas desserts - the pavlova is quite good, the sponge cake is excellent and the lemon meringue pie is truly awful rubbish apart from the meringue topping. All the dessert, cake and pastry prices really are top dollar for what is largely industrially processed, cheap fat and sugar - no butter in sight in most pastries. Their butter shortbread at £4 has butter but M&S is far better quality, less ingredients and far cheaper - a local bakery should be able to beat M&S on prices. We had stopped buying their flaky mince pies a few years ago as they are margarine based cheap fat with an unpleasant aftertaste while again M&S offer much more tasty butter flaky pastry at half the price. We also stopped buying the lemon meringue crap. And for my observation about class well it's this: Like many others we collect our goods on Christmas Eve and with Wu flu the queue outside on a bitterly cold winter morning, with a sharp wind, was very long indeed. We were in the queue about 40 minutes and noted others queuing comment on why the management weren't offering those queuing and freezing complimentary tea and coffee to warm them up. Goodwill is missing here. Once inside the social distancing evaporated so we froze for nothing which is falling. Fact is tea/coffee is a nominal cost and on a bitter winter day it's the human thing to do. As I said ya might have brass but it don't buy ya class.

Food is amazing. Cutlery and dishes have always been clean. Food isn't greasy or oily and the chips…read moreare perfect. 10/10 would recommend

It was snowing heavily outside. It was drifting too and just 1 centigrade with a south westerly…read moregale blowing. So we settled in, warm, and thought we weren't going outside but it took only one photograph - chocolate covered strawberries. Our son had seen them on the Velveteen Facebook and had ordered them up for his Valentine with an afternoon tea box. Ooh it was a Homer S moment. Must have....must have. I thought I was back in the carribean with Norwegian Cruises and cruise director Nelson was looking after us again. Oh well we are such stuff as dreams are made. Anyway that did it. On went the layers and headgear and gloves. Out into the wild snowscape, feet scrunching and sinking down into the soft snow. By the time I got to the delightful V Rabbit they'd sold out of the choccy strawberries, damn and blast nevertheless we got a £10 treat box with all sorts of sweet treats, cakes, tarts and scones and we got cappuccino £2.5. Everything in here is home-made and proper made. Not at all like the cakes from the industrial bakeries we have along Hill Street but how you would make it at home. The photos show the goodie box and separately a small lemon drizzle cake and a piece of Victoria sponge. The lemon drizzle was perfect. The Victoria sponge picture is half the portion as we split it between two. These are really scrummy cakes and I remember that taste from years ago. Victoria sponge made properly, in particular, has a distinctive unique taste and texture. I'm glad I went. I sure wasn't disappointed. I would have liked the chocolate covered strawberries but hey ho some other time.

This is a first for me. A Wu flu review at a distance; so I didn't actually go in the door, nor did…read moreI choose the foodie goodies, nor can I comment on the prices as I don't know them. I'll explain: we are locked down at home and can't go out. So a week or so ago, knowing our plight, two of our friends arrived at our door with two cappuccinos from this female owned business and stood well back from our front door (other friends sent us flowers). The lady owner of this place has maintained food and coffee service six days a week (not Sunday) all over lockdown from a serving hatch. Fair play to her. I wasn't going to do a review just on two cappuccinos even though they were very good cappuccinos. I'd gone to this business a few times over the years but it was long ago. Today changed the dynamic when our friends arrived once more with two cappuccinos and two sausage rolls and stood well back. Now I'm fussy about sausage rolls and I'm conscious that those with less scruples know they can get away with very cheap, fatty 'meat' and cheap fat laden anaemic looking barely cooked pastry. If you are local and you want to try cheap to make (but not cheap to buy) industrially made sausage rolls go to the Shelbourne bakery. So back to this place. I was sceptical about the sausage rolls and my scepticism was totally misplaced. They were delicious. The sausage meat did not taste at all cheap or fatty. We heated them and the aroma was lovely. The spice kick was about right - really good taste - and the best surprise of all our friends said that the owner makes them herself and together with minced pork she had added chorizo, goats cheese and jalapeño. This is what happens when a business concentrates on quality first on what they are making to sell, rather than simply being only interested in maximising profit regardless by making food as cheap as possible while staying legal. The sausage roll pastry too was delicious. It was light, golden. flavoursome and moreish. So we've become instant fans. The owner usually has a blackboard out front with a joke or an acerbic comment and she sure has a healthy, cheeky sense of humour - her observation style is more akin to how Chrissy Teigen recently expressed the (thankfully ex) President Trump years rather than Plato. I think Ms Teigen held back and was tame.

We nipped in here for a tray-bake and a cuppa, the atmosphere is nice, service is quick and…read morefriendly and the price is great (that door-stop sized piece of white chocolate and aero bar was shared between 3 people!). Will definitely be back in here before we head State-Side and next time I'll try some 'real food' before dessert. Food is all fresh from fresh ingredients and the wee 'shap' at the front has lots of stuff to pick up on the way out, there's even Slimming World friendly options on the menu - healthy selections that I'm told, are delicious!

This place is so recently opened that a Coca Cola fridge was being delivered as we enjoyed…read morebreakfast. In fact not only was it delivered it was fully stocked and operating before I finished my coffee. We ordered a cappuccino and flat white respectively and both coffees came to just over a fiver. The coffees were very good indeed. The large breakfast was about £7 and it was not the typical fry up that we opt for as it hadn't any potato or soda breads, but instead was served with a slice of Yellow Door sourdough bread, which was all the better for good butter and being toasting on one side only. The food here, particularly the back bacon, was properly cooked as all to often sausages, black & white puddings are overcooked and bacon is served with rind that isn't properly crisped - which it should always be. The eggs with the big breakfast can be ordered fried, poached or scrambled. There were breakfast choices too for the more health conscious and I glanced at a mashed avocado choice on a specials board. The board also offered a sausage, bacon & egg filled soda (£6) but still no potato bread in sight. Oddly while the specials board listed prices, the mains menu had no price details at all. The sourdough bread here, so named, is from a local small restaurant chain called the Yellow Door. I believe this chain now does visitor catering at Hillsborough castle, Co Down. I've reviewed the yellow door cafe in Portadown a few months ago. The seating here was comfortable and the service was prompt and friendly. It's good to see new business in the new Spring, March 2020. On balance we'll likely return here for breakfast rather than our usual Hill Street place. We might even ask for potato bread instead of sourdough as old habits......

Four of us were in the nearby Canal Court hotel for our Sunday lunch when coffee was suggested…read more I thought it sensible to go next door to Grounded as I'd remembered that their coffee is ace and certainly well ahead of this hotel in quality but certainly not price. It has to be many years since I last had a coffee here, as I prefer other places that don't open on Sunday. I also identify its main customer base as the younger generation. I was surprised to find it almost empty on an early Sunday afternoon when my memory was that it was usually full. It's not a big place by any means and currently operates a one way system - one door in and a different door exiting. They are also only serving coffees etc in paper/plastic cups (even Starbucks have locked away the ceramics.) We had three coffees (cappuccino) and an iced drink. The coffees were ace and the service friendly. Our son wasn't impressed by his iced drink - he thought it insipid and watery. The piped music was great, but I must say I found the seating uncomfortable and the furnishings were as jaded as I now feel most days. Next time I want a Sunday afternoon coffee and I'm right next door I'll likely pop in but I'm afraid I do prefer a comfy seat.

Pretty darn good, this is where the young trendy things of Newry go to be seen (and you cant be…read moremissed with the glass windows!) Menu could be more extensive to suit its long opening hours, it really offers nothing in the way of hot food, apart from soup but what you get is good. Eco friendly and its all about fair trade and saving the rain forest in here. Great concept and well run, some of the staff are a bit way out looking but, hey I'm a geriatric so what the hell do I know about facial piercings? Sandwiches, bagels, paninis etc, and all day breakfasts

I thought I would give this fairly new place a try, so I sampled a sit in coffee. I did not buy any…read morefood although I did take a look at the breakfast selections up on the blackboard but nothing attracted me. I like a deal. By that I mean a well priced breakfast with a coffee or a tea included in the price. I didn't see any deal. The coffees were competitively priced. I opted for a flat white at £2. I found it really quite poor tasting and it's a real stretch to call it a flat white. I was really disappointed and I would have liked to have handed it back and got my money back. I wouldn't buy another and given the better coffee choices among the healthy competition nearby I doubt I will return here. The server was very pleasant, there are local papers available to read and the seating was cosy.

Not nice at all! I went recently because my friend had said their food was legendary, this is…read moreespecially surprisingly because she is very picky. I had ordered chicken goujons and when they came out I thought nothing of it, but when i sliced into it it was pink and undercooked. The chips were nice however I think I was just put off my whole meal because of the chicken problem. Thankfully, the staff were understanding and didn't charge me for the food I didn't feel was to my satisfaction they did offer to remake it but I kindly declined. Overall I think it was just bad luck and everyone else had been saying the food was amazing. But my meal was not up to my standards and I felt sick when I got home. I don't want to downgrade the restaurant but I feel I should share this just because of how unacceptable it was but I do understand that mistakes do happen and I just happened to be the person this happened to! I'm rating it 2 stars simply because I could have caught salmonella and it was blankly undercooked but this was just my experience. And no I will not try it again or recommend. Not happy :(

S&B in Newry was great. I met my 5th cousin, John, there for breakfast. The food was delicious and…read morethe coffee was excellent. The staff was outstanding. We can't wait to come back

Best coffee in Northern Ireland. Lovely staff, delicious food and warm atmosphere. First time here…read morebut it won't be my last.

This place has been open quite some time and we never really bothered to try it as we used the…read moreSugar Supper Club just across the road. It's now called No 14 and we find it's often closed now at breakfast times including today. We were at dinner a few weeks ago, with friends, in the Yellow Heifer and we were told that this place did some very good food. So in we went: it's a darn good place for breakfast and they have some daily papers to read. We've been twice now and twice we've had the big breakfast which includes tea or coffee. They rustle up a years supply of cholesterol on a hot plate: freshly - cooked crispy bacon, white & black pudding, pork sausages, tomato, fried egg, beans, potato & soda bread. The service is ace friendly and it's cosy warm. Parking close by is a bit of a bummer though. This is our latest go to place for breakfast