Mighty tasty fish n chips @ Mourne Seafood Bar. Lightly battered and flaky. Had to make…read morereservations as seating is limited. Waitress wasn't overly friendly. Seemed more so with the local clientel. Nice bottle of Italian red with our meal.

Mournes is modern seafood in Belfasts city center. (Next door to Kelly's cellar, good for a drink…read morebefore or after.) We made reservations a couple days ahead of time and were seated immediately. The restaurant is small and modern, the menu short. They also had a nice cocktail and wine menu, with a section on more interesting wines. We started with the peach fizz and strawberry fields. Both were lighter, summery cocktails. We shared the oysters, won ton soup, and the sea bass, and were too full for dessert. The oysters were local, and lovely. The wonton was actually a soup, served with shrimp crackers, really good flavor, just the right amount of spice. The fish was also cooked well, I liked the saffron potatoes as something just a bit different. Nice service, more than one staff took their time to be friendly at our table. They do accept walk ins, but it is about timing. During peek season, consider a reservation.

I had an absolutely wonderful evening at Campbell's Restaurant, sipping champagne and eating the…read moremost sensational food, so precisely prepared with just the right amount of everything and served by waiting staff who do a great job of looking after you and making you feel welcome. A few days before our visit, I emailed the restaurant to book a table and to request a vegan option, as this is predominantly a seafood restaurant and booking in advance is a must, due to its popularity among locals and those who make a special trip to enjoy their locally sourced ingredients. I was assured that the chef would ensure there would be a vegan option available for me, so I was stunned when I arrived to find that they had prepared a vegan menu for me, with a choice of three starters and three mains, any of which would have suited me perfectly. After a lot of deliberation over the amazing offerings, I went for oyster mushrooms in garlic and parsley olive oil, followed by tomato and pimento risotto, with spinach and rocket, then finished off with coffee and mints. This is fine dining at its absolute best and everything was so delicately crafted and perfectly flavoured in a way I have never experienced before. My boyfriend loves seafood and he adores this place, always opting for the seafood platter, which is a mountain of weird and wonderful seafood, which he assures me is delicious. The fish couldn't be any fresher as it's caught right outside the door and everything is sourced locally so that the ingredients are of the highest quality. Campbell's is the nicest restaurant I've ever been in, due to its superior food, staff who make you feel like royalty and perfectly laid tables with hand-crafted cutlery and napkins folded to perfection. It really is a cut above the rest in the area and well worth a journey to Portpatrick.

Now this is the place to eat in portpatrick plenty of choice and great fresh seafoodread more

What a lucky find! The Fish House is a great little seafood café and fishmarket not to be missed if…read moreyou are in Port Saint Mary. We had Queenie's and chorizo on a roll, and a fabulous smoked haddock Benedict. Freshly caught fish arrived through while we were there. Staff was friendly & service was good. Prices are very modest. Unlicensed but looks like you can BYOB.

The Fish House is amazing! Stopped there while hiking around the Isle, and we were blown away by…read morethe delicious fresh seafood tucked away in a corner of Port St. Mary. I had a bagel with a large helping of fresh lobster and melted cheese. The food was so good that we then bought some smoked salmon pate and kippers to bring home for breakfast. Prices were great, staff was helpful, atmosphere was lovely. If I'm ever on the Isle again, I'll definitely be going back!

The food here is absolutely out of this world. I'd been…read morewanting to try The Boat House for a long time, but since I live in Glengormley it was too far out of the way. I was bought a voucher to stay at The Crawfordsburn Inn, so I jumped at the chance to go to The Boat House for dinner while in that neck of the woods. 100% worth it, and I would go out if my way to visit again.

It's small and understated, sitting in a car park at Bangor marina. When you head in and down…read morestairs it has a very comfortable feeling with hints of the buildings previous form still intact. It's something a little special in Bangor, and sad to say it will be closing soon. Get here before the end of October for a final taste of their tasting menu. The service is warm and friendly and the staff where attentive. The glasses and plates were well chosen and very pretty. It was dimly lit with the music picking up the closer it got to closing time, some interesting tracks to. The whole experience was well put together from start to finish. The tasting menu is five courses, with your starter, fish, meats, and desert. The portions and pacing is perfect to leave you feeling satisfied but not over full. Each of the courses where we'll thought out and had very subtle flavours to begin, building to more powerful tastes near the end. A highlight was the compressed apple for dessert, which gave a strong taste of apple leaving a slightly floral note at the end. Overall a very relaxing and gratifying experience. I'll be sad to see this place go as I'd like more chances to try their food.

Best steak I've had in a long time. We ordered the tomahawk and man o man was it phenomenal! Enough…read moresaid! Service was exceptional too!

Just off Donegal Street tucked down Commercial Court entry is Hadskis! Hadskis is Belfast's newest…read moreEuropean dining experience. The interior is chic and classy whilst the exterior is full of character having formerly been a 18th Century Iron Foundry. Hadskis is the perfect destination for a working lunch or a romantic evening dinner - in fact it is fit for all purposes. I visited for an early lunch and while the doors only open at 12 by the time half 12 came around there were at least 5 tables occupied in the long narrow dining area. I would suggest to book a table if you are hoping to eat at Hadskis post 12:30pm. We were presented with the lunch menu by the attentive staff - there were 6 different choices of meal for £6.50 each but this wasn't basic fare - This was fine cuisine at an unbelievable price. I couldn't choose between what was on the menu so being a glutton I opted for 2 dished form this menu. As Hadskis specialises in seafood I went for the filling Seafood Chowder and the Sardine and caper Caesar salad. In retrospect I should have just gone for the Seafood Chowder as it was extremely filling - although IO 'm glad I got to taste both dishes. I found Hadskis the perfect dining experience - firstly the staff didn't judge me for being greedy and secondly the food was incredible. I will definitely be back.

Such a delicious meal!!! My husband enjoyed the seafood. Me as a non seafood lover, was nervous to…read morefind something on the menu but I had the best meal ever by ordering the chicken Kiev.

Fantastic. Dine here if you are in the area. Family owned, local seafood done well. Great…read moreatmosphere.

The staff were lovely and couldn't do enough for us. This is a tiny little restaurant on the…read moregorgeous Ards pinisula. A wee gem defo worth a visit. The food is fabulous and the menus boast local produce from the area.

Sunday was sunny so we went out on the Harley which took us through Dundrum…read more On the way back it was mid afternoon and I sugested the Seafood Bar (as we had heard so much about it.) Parked the Harley, went in expecting a white linen tablecloth place but was pleasently surprised to see a straightforward Pub/Bar. The staff were on hand and set us at a nice window seat. Menu looked fantastic and again simple, the place was also very busy for the time of day. What can I say about the food, ? it just blew you away, simple presentation and the taste was amazing all we could say to each other was we must come back by taxi so we could enjoy some wine as well..

I have been wanting to go to this place for AGES It has…read morealways had great reviews in posh magazines that you only get to read at the dentists (who are people with psychopathic tendencies) In the middle of Dundrum, which looks delightful (even though it was dark when we got there) a trip in daylight would be worthwhile. It was my birthday so the lovely GF took me as a surprise, we were booked in for 7 and were a little late but we were the only ones there so needn't have bothered with a booking. The place gradually filled up from 7.30 on but I don't eat late so suits me. Everyone told me how great /wonderful/fantastic Mourne Seafood Bar was...but NO ONE told me this is where Sir Edmund Hillary trained before his ascent on Everest...I mean MAN IT WAS COLD!!!! They put us near the window and it was bad....we asked them to put heat on and it was great then. Food was fantastic, a smallish menu by some standards, but what you got was finger lickin' good! To start we had a mixture of chili prawns and hot and salty squid....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! For my main I had smoked haddock (it was a hard decision) which came on a bed of crushed spuds and vegetables, delicious! GF opted for the BIG pot of mussels (oink oink) in garlic, white wine and cream, with chips and a side of wheaten (which I ate oink oink oink!!!!!) To finish we shared the white chocolate cheesecake and mango and passion fruit mousse, pure heaven. But afterwards it was terrible...I needed a lie down, and I could hardly breathe!!! Too much good food, my 20 inch waist could hardly take it all in... serves me right for having a THIRD slice of the delicious wheaten. I just cant say no when it is there right in front of me begging to be eaten, with a gorgeous pat of real butter, not this make believe spread that might look the same as real butter but has the taste of used tractor oil. We will be back! And before too long . Go!

I can't recommend this place enough!…read more I was with a group of 6 gal pals exploring Northern Ireland, and this recommendation came from our cab driver in Dublin a few days prior. We decided to check it out since it was on our way to Belfast, and we were so glad we did! What an AWESOME spot! The decor is incredible - so many little old school trinkets jammed in every little cranny - it makes it feel like grandmas house, and so charming at that. And the food... everything we ordered (which was a lot!) was incredibly delicious! The bread they served for appetizer was so good we bought a loaf to take with us for breakfast the next day! Highly highly recommend the French Onion Soup - best I've ever had. And the fried fish/shrimp appetizer was delicious and so cute - served on individual forks! The beet and goat cheese app was also superb. I could go on and on about how much I loved this place, from the decor to the food to the service, but instead I'll leave it at this: Visit! If I'm ever back in the area I know that I'll for sure be back. Yum!

We were there a few nights ago to celebrate our youngest son's birthday. This restaurant is a…read morefavourite of ours. We had booked and arrived as booked. We didn't say it was a birthday. We waited to be seated but there wasn't anyone to seat us. We waited far too long and when the waitress - the older of the only two waitresses serving/ arrived. The greeting was flat and almost felt like she was being put out. She arrived just in time as the barman was about to seat us. I've eaten here hundreds of times over the years. I ordered oysters as a starter only for the waitress to return a few moments later to confirm they had none. Well that's a first. Carlingford Oyster company is a few miles away. So my order became seafood chowder and fillet steak medium. My side dish tobacco onions. My son also ordered the chowder which for the half lifetime I've been eating it here has been superb but not this time. We each knew it wasn't as rich and deep flavoured as before and we were really disappointed. This is one of their finest dishes and we really hope this is a one off. If it happens again we'll send it back and have it off the bill. The price charged means it must be ace every time. I asked for white pepper for my chowder the availability of which was uncertain and when it arrived the younger waitress said I was lucky. If white pepper isn't always available just close. It's not as important as salt is to cooking but it's great for seasoning. I often choose it over black pepper almost always. My fillet was requested medium and it came with a pepper sauce that didn't pour but moved sludge like in lumps in short it was gloop; if it had cream it wasn't discernible nor had it evidence of butter. It tasted factory made. One of the corner stones of the success of Fitzpatrick's was cooking based on classic French cooking (Escoffier) and sauces. It elevates their chowder and onion soups and makes sauces moreish - this pepper sauce is far away from this and it's not and nowhere near good enough. If Danny was still there this sauce wouldn't be and no chef would have had the nerve to put it before him. My fillet was well done, medium to well and medium as I proceeded through it. I'm not precious about it and it was tasty good quality meat which I enjoyed. I only draw a line at bloody meat. My son always opts for rare. The tobacco onions were superbly flavoured stand out 5 stars. I asked for English mustard for my steak but it never arrived and the two overworked waitresses were nowhere to be seen. As desserts weren't offered due to their invisibility I got up to pay. There were five or six guests in the doorway waiting to be seated just as we were earlier that evening and no waitress around. The barman took our payment and I didn't tip which I didn't like but I was not happy. I told the barman some of the issues lousy pepper sauce, non delivery of mustard and poor tasting chowder: he said he'd pass it on. Next time I will return food that's not up to the standard I'm used to at the prices charged.

I tend to mentally split restaurants into 2 categories - child friendly family venues and proper…read morenight out grown up spots. Tedfords definitely falls into the second category. I went for the first time a couple of weeks ago and really badly want to go back asap. The interior is just the kind I love, all starched linen tablecloths and napkins. The atmosphere however is not starched, well not at our table anyway and no-one complained so it must be the kind of place you don't have to whisper. Tedfords is famous as a seafood restaurant which fits with its location right down at the water in Belfast. I had smoked salmon, crab mayo and quail egg. Without the quail egg. If you've read any of my other reviews, you'll know that eggs make me hurl. The good news is that the waiter didn't huff or puff of look as if he felt sorry for me. The other good news is that the salmon was fab - delicate and beautifully flavoured. I felt obliged to have fish again for main course and boy was I glad. On of my group had recommended the curried monkfish and I now do too. It was sublime - the meaty fish was matched brilliantly by the creamy sauce and fragrant coconut rice. I was all full up with no room for desert but managed 2 spoons of the husband's chocolate soufflé with fresh (huge) strawberries. Bliss. Tedford's is certainly not cheap but for a special night out as a couple or with friends, it is my new must go to.

Tedford's, right across from "Nuala with the Hula", a large statue on the river, is a cozy upscale…read morerestaurant that focuses on steak and seafood. The ambiance is cozy, upscale, and yet makes for a nice place to hang out with friends. Go for the pork belly which comes as a big chunk of meat, perfectly seared and chewy. The monkfish was the standout of the night. I was congratulated for my menu prowess with a "best lineup of the night" comment, but I think the monkfish was the MVP. The lobster roll was crispy, buttery but not watery, and substantial without being overly fishy. The curry sauce that accompanied the dish, I could have eaten alone or just with the rice though the thick cut and well seasoned fish made it all the better. All around the mulberry bush, the monkfish was the best I've had. Dessert was this assortment of sweets that put together I think looks like a muppet's head. The peanut butter ice cream was delicious with a great balance of sweet and slight salty savoryness. The custardy chocolate was also excellent and on the dark side which offset the sweetness of the ice cream. The crispy biscuits provided a texture difference and cut through the sweetness to keep it from getting cloying. The service was a bit aloof though. Our waiter over-poured prosecco to overfill the glass, spilled wine on the table, and nearly knocked out someone with a plate.o the owner or employees.