The best restaurants in North Eastern NI

My husband and I go to Oranmore Restaurant regularly the house itself is charming and the location is easy access to local attractions. From the minute you walk in the front door the ambience is so relaxing and welcoming, the staff are friendly and very attentive. The food is consistently fantastic and it's definitely one of my favourite restaurants. I'd highly recommend a private function or just a relaxing date night. Oranmore definitely deserves a full five stars! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Great bakery. Their buns soda wheaten potato bread cakes etc are a dream for your taste buds

Do not leaving negative reviews but the fish and chips I got on the 19th May shortly after 4pm were awful. The 1½ fillets I got were left sitting on top of each other on their flat in the hotbox allowing the grease to run through them. Fish should be left sitting on its side to allow the grease to run off. The fish was not thick cod which you would expect for £9 but more like thin whiting fillets. The batter was overcooked and broke spart like egg shell laving the dry flesh of overcooked fish. The double wrapping was saturated in grease when opened. The chips were soggy with no taste what so ever. Both items where thrown in the bin. Nearly £14 wasted.never again. Take my advice and drive on through to Broughshane street Ballymena were you can get a good sized fillet of golden battered cod for £7.95. Left date and time so maybe it can be viewed on shop camera. Definately has gone down hill.

Couldnt fault food or service Everything was amazing Food pipeing hot Service exceptional There was 9 of us for dinner and the food was amazing value for money

Always a good meal, staff are very friendly, very good gravy chip

I didn't like it barley any red sauce the person serving me was rude

Enjoyed a few drinks with friendly locals after the North West 200.

Really good food and prices are great.

the chicken in the cheesy chicken chips was so dam tasty i like when a chipper gives u 3 different choices in chips and the gravy was top

I was very impressed by the vegetable broth I had here on a recent visit to the town. The sausage roll was also very good. Extensive menu and popular with locals, shoppers and tourists.

Every night is a great night in this bar

Great food, staff very friendly and professional especially Reece,Danielle and Eve. Food is fresh, my husband has coeliac disease and staff catered for him well

My dog was drenched in oily sauce — and the staff laughed at us. Today at Market Square, I experienced one of the most upsetting incidents I've encountered in 10 years of living in the UK. We ordered four dishes. When a 14 year old waitress served the food, she poured an entire bowl of oily hot sauce all over my dog, completely soaking him. Despite the freezing weather, I had to clean my shivering dog outside with water. I stayed calm and understanding, treating it as an unfortunate mistake. While my husband went inside to wash the dog's clothes, he witnessed the waitress laughing and mocking me in front of the entire team — even imitating how I called out for my dog and how I tried to clean him. This public humiliation was deeply insulting and unprofessional. When I calmly raised my concerns with the manager and owner, no genuine apology was offered. Instead, the owner dismissed my experience, claiming I was "over-sensitive" and "making up stories." He defended the waitress by saying, "She’s only 14, it’s her second day here, and she's local — I know her parents," completely missing the core issue: a collective lack of respect, professionalism, and basic empathy from the staff. When I expressed how deeply insulting the experience was, the owner's response was, "You can leave". He took our untouched food away even before we left the table. Mistakes happen in any business — but mocking a customer’s distress, especially after causing it, reflects a serious failure of training, leadership, and values. As a business owner myself, I would never tolerate such behavior from my staff. As Asian tourists, we felt particularly disrespected and unwelcome. It is hard not to wonder whether racial bias influenced the way we were treated. If you are a minority, or if you simply expect basic respect, professionalism, and empathy, I strongly advise you to think twice before visiting Market Square in Bushmills.

We dropped by for breakfast on a Saturday morning just as the cafe opened. Lovely service staff who told us that the scones would be ready in a few minutes. Breakfast was nice and the scones delicious, huge and fresh from the oven. We raved about them to the staff. Just before we left one of the young service staff came over with a box that had two scones in it. She told us they were from the day before and if we’d like to have them for free. They were still very good but since they were baked the day before, they wouldn’t sell them since they only served freshly baked scones. We were so touched by this lovely gesture and enjoyed them in the evening in our hotel room (and they were delicious even then).