Grafters Cafe in Ballymena

wonderful place...always packed great food

Great food and really friendly service.

One of the nicest cups of coffee I’ve had for ages!

First time eating here and I must say it was lovely. Staff were very attentive. I had the small fry which was just the right amount. There is a gut buster breakfast on the menu if you are really hungry. Enough to feed 2 men and a wee lad. Normal amount for the shams in Ballymena 😉

Friendly staff and clean surroundings.

The best lasagne in town. Friendly service.

Great working cafe.. proper food at good prices.. down to earth working staff..

Great value for money and the staff are brilliant nothing is too much trouble for them

The best fry and very reasonably priced. Cheap and cheerful with pleasant and helpful staff.

Absolutely fantastic place...food, service, atmosphere 100%....will definitely be back again

Excellent food, staff super friendly, and doesn't cost the earth

Great wee cafe. Food enjoyable and great prices. Especially in today's economic climate. Staff friendly and service good.

Can’t fault it at all. Staff were friendly and breakfast was top notch.

Proper old school cafe One of my sneaky pleasures from years on the road, hard to find but once you know.....

Food good served quickly nothing fancy just good everyday food

Best fry up in Ballymena. Ordered the large fry (£7.50), couldn't finish it. The 'belly buster' must be next level. Great that it's open on Sunday's now, plus you can get a fry all day unlike most places in Ballymena. Very reasonably priced.

Good ulster fry. Friendly service. Will be back

Great great place. Decent food, great price... Hope now that I've added a review it doesn't change. Good service. I had a burger for breakfast so no "you can only order breakfast items at this time" (I'd already been awake since 4am so 11am is lunch for me

Food was good and the service. 😁

First class breakfast large fry hard to get better anywhere in Ballymena

Great spot for a good, hearty meal. Big portions of quality food and a friendly service.

Have eaten in Grafters a few times and never disappointed, great reasonably priced food. The cafe is popular with local workers and families for lunch and snacks. From now on when in Ballymena I will always eat here. The staff are so friendly and make sure everything is ok for you.

Very nice and great place to grab a quick bit to eat

Friendly staff and really good food

Good straight up food and great service. Very popular with local workers and passing trade.

Great food at very reasonable prices.

what you would expect and more from a cafe.. the only criticism is the lock on the toilet door is broken ..but I'm sure that will get fixed.

It's just like home cooking tastey food and enjoyable.

Good food, nothing fancy but well priced and service was good. Cracking cup of tea, worth the visit for that alone.

Been eating a lot of Ulster Frys on my trip home but this one stands out. I really enjoyed the large fry, ( sausage, bacon, black and white pudding, mushrooms, egg, potato and soda bread, pancake, beans, hash brown), all items well cooked and tasty with a free pot of tea but what made the experience a stand out was the graceful willingness of the worker to accommodate my modified order. I don't like mushrooms at all and the young man taking the order immediately offered to replace them with another item and it was no bother to poach the eggs and throw mine (I don't like egg either) onto my brother's plate. First class, cooked brekkie. Warm, welcoming service. Thank you !

Absolutely great place to go for breakfast or lunch great service friendly staff and good food

Great wee cafe in Ballymena. Great fry at a great price served by friendly helpful staff.

Good ole spot for a bite of lunch friendly staff

A Great wee Cafe. Always a friendly atmosphere with good food at a decent price.

Great food standards. Lots of workers in uniforms.

Workers cafe. Fry's,poached eggs,pancake stacks ,dinners. Coffee tea etc

Good prices and nice food! Nice casual atmosphere. Highly recommended!

Best value in maybe the whole of NI. Great service and great cooking. We get all our staff breakfast every Tuesday and order is always correct. Lunch on a Saturday and breakfast most mornings shows we are fans

Was here with a friend and well what can I say. The frys are amazing well cooked not oily and well priced and fair priced. This place will def make u feel full hood food all round.

Love this place best omlettes in the country

As always a well used cafe and food good and fair price

First class feed, staff looked after us well, bit of friendly chat.

What a really down to earth cafe! Good food, very reasonably priced and genuinely nice staff. It was refreshing to see such a family business delivering such an excellent service. Why can't others do the same in Ballymena???? Love it

The name of the cafe says it all. Really suited to the grafers of the World who are out and about on a daily basis and need some good grub for the day ahead. Honestly the best fry in the town. Small, large and the "Gut buster" if you dare! Unbelievably competitive on price compared to other cafe's in town. The premises aren't particularly pretty but staff are really friendly and the food is great!

Amazing food & service , definitely worth a try & u will go back

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Very good quality and good service great value for money

Great wee spot, can't wait to get back for breakfast!!

Superb hospitality. breakfast was delicious and plentiful. Fully recommend

Love the breakfast and the people

Fantastic food and fantastic service. You would be very hard pushed to get better value anywhere else.

The manager aliaster loimer is a great waiter ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We had a lovely lunch and good value for money

Brilliant food would highly recommend

Decidedly average to low quality food. The serving staff seem welcoming though and they seem to please the public.

Great wee cafe ..you must visit ..for best Ulster fry in ulster .. Was lucky enough to visit herr with my good pal. John bamber .when I was over for the 12th last month .. my last day ..and visited here .. only breakfast a had in 7 days lol ... This is a very clean place top marks for cleanliness And top Mark's . For the very friendly staff ... will be back here in September when am over for 3 weeks . And al be calling here before a hit the drink lol

Great staff, great service, great prices! Grafters didn't waste any time moaning during the lock down, they have transformed it. You must try it! Same great staff, same great service, same great prices.

Breakfast great and at a small cost staff so friendly

Great workmans cafe value for money

Some of the food was burnt. New menu was a disappointment, wont be going back. Standards have dropped exceedingly. 👎

Great place, Lovely friendly staff. Very reasonable priced. Will definitely be back.

To much bread and pancakes etc but good brekky

Was here recently and I have to say I wouldn’t return in any hurries. The staff were slow and didn’t even get half our order right. What they did get correct ended up being stone cold. Prices too expensive for terrible food.

Clean. Quick pleasant service. Good value.

Food's great and the staff are pretty good as well 😁

Chape and cheerful but good for chat and meet

Wholesome food at a very good price. Super atmosphere, with fun and friendly staff.Best Fry and coffee served in whole town.love this cafe.

Great food and friendly staff and great service

We used to visit Grafters quite a lot but we will not be visiting any more. The price of a breakfast has now changed to 80pence per item which as my husband used to enjoy a good breakfast it has now become too expensive. Also the taste of the chips,beans and tea has deteriated to such an extent that it is not very nice at all. It is as if they are sacrificing quality save a bit on the cost. I know we will not be visiting again and we have supported Grafters from the day it opened.

Only been few times but have had there frys and normal food both brilliant and services can not fault them at all

Honestly great place, fast to give the meal and really nice food strongly recommend

Everytime you go lovely people, and lovely food xx

Mostly male customers when I was there. If you like a real ulster fry with no frills at a very reasonable price this is your place.

Great local cafe, all the traditional fare served with efficiency and a friendly welcome!

Been here many times and i cant fault it.

Not very clean and food not great, I would not be in a hurry to go back, the staff were very nice and helpful.

Excellent family run Cafe always busy... don't need to add anything else ☺

My favorite place and never disappoints

Good atmosphere, good service, good food, good value, good times

Found this place by accident in the industrial estate. Friendly staff and good grub.

Cheap working man's place to eat.

Grafters is one of the best value for money down to earth cafe's around

Good, wholesome food at a very reasonable price. Friendly staff and warm ambience 😎

Huge fry very cheap. Tasted amazing

Very reasonably priced good food and friendly staff.

Great hard working staff Sabrina being the mainstay!!!

Fantastic food at fantastic prices

I went there for breakfast and wow what a breakfast it was, great taste and large portion size, yum yum

Good food at a good price, I always go there when in the area!

Lovely home cooked food, best value in Ballymena.

Best wee cafe in town, cheap & really good food

Good honest food, reasonably priced, excellent friendly service. Will go there again

Very nice and clean toasties are the best

You get a good meal and it reasonable priced

Good food at a good price with friendly staff what more do you want!

we go to Crafters regularly wouldn't go a there else when in Ballymena. I have recommended Crafters to loads of friends.

I really like this place,very busy Saturday morning

First class food and service 👌🍲

Graet food great service lovely staff x

Good friendly service and good food