CAMOCHA in Newry and Mourne

I had code with chips. Just wonderful. All food looked amazing. Fabulous service. I came from Dublin for work. Will do it again next week and every time I go there

Lovely place, great atmosphere and amazing food. Will definitely be back. Staff are friendly too. Great selection in menu and good clean environment.

Very busy restaurant. Excellent service. Breakfast cooked as requested. Staff are very polite. Atmosphere is first class including festive decorations.

What a strange day. We’d arranged to meet a relation for a near 3 hour lunch. It was our fourth attempt to meet and eat but life kept getting in the way. We opted for here because the menu is pretty decent, the coffees are darn good, it’s cosy, parking is hassle free, there’s no phone signal and the welcome is always friendly. It’s one of the places we took our friends from California last April and they were mucho impressed. We all had the same lunch - three open prawn sandwiches - exquisite north east Atlantic cold water prawns on wheaten bread and a cocktail sauce (sadly with no brandy added). There were 2 cappuccinos ordered and I had a flat white. The craic was mighty as our relation had recently visited China, Singapore, Australia and he regaled us with stories of his six week sojourn, so much so that another round of coffees was needed. He would not return to China. So what made it strange you may ask - all the while my mind kept niggling at me as another relative was very ill and we knew the end was near so as we went our separate ways from our long lunch out into to minus 3c we had decided to just go home but the niggle niggled. So we instead drove to see our ill relative. We were with him just 40 minutes when he passed, so peacefully, surrounded by those who loved him. We are sad but glad the niggle niggled.

We’ve been here a few times recently and it is consistently excellent. Four of us dined. My wife and I had the open prawn on wheaten bread and it was really tasty food. The key ingredient is cold water prawns - not the plump, not a lot of taste warm water things - wonderful fish from our cold North Atlantic. My wife and I got a portion of chips between us and they are so tasty good because they are proper made on the premises chip shop chips. It’s rare to get proper chips as a lot of places now buy them factory frozen or chilled and they are nowhere near as good ever. I got a great tasting flat white too. I’d thought about the fish & chips but at £15 it has to be no. Now if tea, bread and butter was included it would seal the deal. The staff are ace friendly too. We brought two American friends on a previous visit a month ago who’d never been in Ireland before and they were genuinely well impressed - one had a full Irish breakfast and the other had an avocado based breakfast. They have a friend where they live in California whose ancestors hail from Camlough so that made it a bit more fun for them sending pictures from the old sod as they say. It’s a wonderful world.

In the centre of Camlough a busy village outside Newry. Quite a big cafe. I only stopped in for a coffee and see the place whilst I was in the area. Menu is basic with lot of sweet stuff Prices OK. I want to try it soon for a meal. Very busy place. Clean and staff fine.