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4.3

Based on 346 opinions finded in 2 websites

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Nº 62 in 173 in Ballymena

Nº 10 of 29 British in Ballymena

CUSTOMERS TALK ABOUT DISHES WITH..cooked

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Lovely friendly staff first class food an very reasonable priced. Highly recommend Grafters . 👌

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Adeline Smyth . 2024-10-19

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Honestly best meal our family had in NI

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Terry Burgess . 2024-10-09

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Really nice fried breakfast. We had the small breakfast (8 items) which came with tea or coffer included all at a very reasonable price. Lovely people

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Dr. Glyn Edwards . 2024-08-31

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Do not pass here for a breakfast. You will be well pleased if you drop in .

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john mccrory . 2024-08-24

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Excellent value meal. Food was excellent and service great. 4 of us dined at lunch time today before heading over to Ballymena Honda. Very impressed.

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BCrawford15 . 2024-08-21

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Bring back nevill, new boss aliaster lomier is always eating the profits

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G stewart . 2024-05-30

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Good service Good food Free tea/coffee with breakfast

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E E . 2024-05-21

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Great food and friendly service

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Jane Wallace . 2024-05-12

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wonderful place...always packed great food

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Stacey van dieren . 2024-03-05

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Great food and really friendly service.

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John Brew . 2024-02-09

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

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Annabel Farrell . 2024-02-08

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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 😉

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paul nelson . 2024-02-02

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Friendly staff and clean surroundings.

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grace mcilroy . 2023-12-19

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The best lasagne in town. Friendly service.

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Adrian Patterson . 2023-11-28

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

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Noel McKillen . 2023-11-21

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

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Richard Willighan . 2023-11-06

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

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stephen whinnery . 2023-10-26

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

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Colin J Grayson (The COLSTER) . 2023-10-25

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

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Gerard Mc Millan . 2023-10-16

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

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Linda Davidson . 2023-10-06

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

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Andrew Cathcart . 2023-09-26

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

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Jason William . 2023-09-22

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Food good served quickly nothing fancy just good everyday food

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Elizabeth Ross . 2023-09-17

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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.

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UrsulaTron . 2023-09-08

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Good ulster fry. Friendly service. Will be back

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Cecil Mcwilliams . 2023-09-01

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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

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ACORN Homestead . 2023-08-05

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Food was good and the service. 😁

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Roberta Wylie . 2023-07-30

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

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samuel carson . 2023-07-29

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

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Joe Carey . 2023-07-06

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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.

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Bunty Smith . 2023-06-23

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

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Safety 1st forklift Training . 2023-05-20

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In April we visited grafters not much to look at from outside, but a great atmosphere inside busy busy great wholesome family cooked food, good reasonable price, always busy, always full, great welcoming staff I enjoyed it immensely, thank you closes half day.

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susan d . 2023-04-16

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Friendly staff and really good food

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Fiona Love . 2023-03-20

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

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william mckibbin . 2023-02-23

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Great food at very reasonable prices.

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Patrick Mc Alister . 2023-02-20

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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.

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lynn hall . 2023-01-28

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

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John Mcintosh . 2023-01-26

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

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Steve Stewart . 2023-01-16

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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 !

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paul harrison . 2022-12-15

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

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Hugh O'Neill . 2022-11-20

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

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ropey driver . 2022-11-12

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Good ole spot for a bite of lunch friendly staff

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James Steele . 2022-10-31

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

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Stevie Arrell . 2022-10-29

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Great food standards. Lots of workers in uniforms.

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Robert Simpson . 2022-10-28

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

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Robert Simpson . 2022-10-16

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

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Tom Gier . 2022-08-20

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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

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Katie Daniels . 2022-07-30

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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.

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David . 2022-06-26

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Love this place best omlettes in the country

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Sylvia Allen . 2022-06-24

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

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HAROLD CORSCADDEN . 2022-06-11

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

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Luke Emery . 2022-05-31

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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

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Maebh Bird . 2022-04-14

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The best fry in town by far and will never be beaten . If you are really starving then man up and go for the belly buster .

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john m . 2022-04-11

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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!

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Ally Mitchell . 2022-02-23

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

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Jacqueline burns . 2022-02-05

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FRESHPREPAIRED-FOOD-EXELENTSTAFF-THANK-YOU

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matthew gordon . 2021-12-28

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I have travelled all over Ireland in my job and wherever I land I have always measured my stay by the Omelettes served at Breakfast. From the G Hotel in Galway to the Europa in Belfast, I always compare their Omelettes to Grafters and I have yet to get one that is as delicious as Fabian's. Great Food, Great Service and Amazing Omelettes.

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Tonka9366 . 2021-11-30

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Very good quality and good service great value for money

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Albert Craig . 2021-11-13

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

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Bobby Mc Loughlin . 2021-10-26

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Superb hospitality. breakfast was delicious and plentiful. Fully recommend

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anthony abbott . 2021-09-15

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Love the breakfast and the people

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Pete Labdon . 2021-08-19

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

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Roy's Reviews . 2021-05-27

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

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Geoff Stewart . 2021-01-09

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We had a lovely lunch and good value for money

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Nicholas Porter . 2020-11-21

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Brilliant food would highly recommend

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Sandra Kilpatrick . 2020-11-05

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

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Derek Mccrory . 2020-08-26

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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

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Lawrence . 2020-08-18

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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.

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Raymond Foster . 2020-07-12

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Breakfast great and at a small cost staff so friendly

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William Mcclements . 2020-02-12

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Great workmans cafe value for money

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Big Fan of games . 2020-01-31

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

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Emi Shi . 2020-01-04

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

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Julie Onion . 2019-11-22

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To much bread and pancakes etc but good brekky

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Matty A . 2019-11-13

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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.

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Ultimatedaytrips . 2019-09-26

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Clean. Quick pleasant service. Good value.

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Donald Mawhinney . 2019-09-07

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

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James Shields . 2019-08-28

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Chape and cheerful but good for chat and meet

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Sam Gteer . 2019-08-12

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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.

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Carol Conway . 2019-07-30

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Great food and friendly staff and great service

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Rodney Asquith . 2019-07-25

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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.

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Margaret R . 2019-07-11

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

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Crazi fazer . 2019-06-27

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

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Stuart McDowell . 2019-05-30

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Everytime you go lovely people, and lovely food xx

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Danielle Bennett . 2019-04-26

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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.

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Rachael Doey . 2019-04-09

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

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David Barton . 2019-04-01

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Been here many times and i cant fault it.

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Alastair Millar . 2019-03-22

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

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Brenda R . 2019-03-17

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

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Ruby Downie . 2019-02-16

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My favorite place and never disappoints

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Marlene Hughes . 2019-01-31

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

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Donal Madden . 2019-01-23

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

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JOHN JOHNSTON . 2019-01-06

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Cheap working man's place to eat.

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John Plumb . 2019-01-03

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

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Kay Kenny . 2019-01-01

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

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Andy Ruck . 2018-12-15

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Huge fry very cheap. Tasted amazing

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Adam McKendry . 2018-12-06

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Very reasonably priced good food and friendly staff.

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Sheelagh McAteer . 2018-11-23

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Great hard working staff Sabrina being the mainstay!!!

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Trevor “Basil” Mc Donald . 2018-11-20

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Fantastic food at fantastic prices

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Andrew Houston . 2018-11-11

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

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Jim McMaster . 2018-11-03

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

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S long . 2018-10-31

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