The best restaurants serving British food in North Down South Eastern NI

We visited for dinner with friends on a Saturday evening. It’s non-licensed BYOB, with a reasonable £1.50pp corkage/glasses charge, which is very reasonable. Service was relaxed, friendly and superb throughout. Dishes were all freshly cooked, we could have chosen almost anything on the menu as everything sounded delicious. Our choices were all excellent - absolutely superb bistro cookery. Highly recommended - we’d definitely return if we visit Bangor again.

We went to Vespers for a family birthday. The location is hard to beat and made for a great occasion, with drinks in the lounge first then taking our table in the beautifully-appointed dining room looking out to the grounds. The scene was set, then, for a sumptuous meal, one of us taking the vegetarian option (gnocchi) and the others the roast beef. Whilst the beef was reportedly melt in the mouth, the roast potatoes were deemed to be leathery and tough to get through (perhaps sitting under heat as we were a later sitting), with a rather tasteless gravy to boot. The gnocchi was oily and very over-salted; it didn’t get finished. I had a beautiful, subtle red with the meal. Desserts were somewhat ‘nouvelle’ in both portion and interpretation and would have gone down better with the table if they had followed a more classical approach. The Culloden Hotel and Vespers within it are top class locations for a special occasion. Service was polished and unobtrusive as you would expect. The food does need attention and we would not consider a return as things stand. With some attention to bring the menu up to par we’d look at it again for something special.

Called in this morning just for coffee, which was really good. Also had a cinnamon swirl and it was delicious. Hadn’t been for a while but will be back very soon. Very comfortable cafe and great service. Produce looks great too.

£5 for a large ice cream with 2 sauces and loads of toppings…. Enough for 2 people to share ……delicious even in the rain

Great food ,excellent service and great chat with our waiter/server,plenty of laughs .

Stopped here after coming across from Downpatrick via the ferry. We were so pleased that we did, we both had a fry up. One of the best we have ever had in a cafe. Service was quick, no grease on the plate and thoroughly enjoyable. Lovely pot of tea as well. Michelle, who was in charge couldn’t have been more helpful, even though she had a very busy cafe. Top marks girls for a lovely meal for two very hungry clients.

Excellent fish and chips Not the cheapest but well worth it

We went to watch the rugby in the bar and no one was in the bar. The tvs weren't working only the one in the pool room were there was about 5 people playing pool. Hopefully it's just teething problems

It was very last minute booked sat night for Sunday lunch for 8 people. I brought a birthday cake and all the staff came out with it so made it special. All enjoyed our meals. Thankyou.

Great staff great food nice clean chippy

Thursday's not a good day for brekkie.

Nice wee cafe with a good variety of food, drinks and treats. Friendly staff and not far from the harbour.

A beautiful meal for our wedding anniversary. The service was friendly and impeccable! The food was top notch and the cocktails were perfection. Great value for money too! Highly recommend

Have previously attended and had great food so it's fair to say I was looking forward to it. On arrival the restaurant was pretty empty, apart from 2 tables of approximately 6 people. We placed our order and waited for our food. We continued to wait, and wait, and wait.... About 4 or 5 tables had guests arrive for dinner after we had placed our order. It soon became obviously that they were being served their food before us. No member of staff approached us to apogise for the delay. After 45 minutes we asked how long our food would be? We received an apology and 10 minutes later our food arrived. When it did the mash, veg, and meat were cold, yet the roasties were hot. There's nothing worse than cold food! We advised the staff who apologised and took our food away. It came back after a good 10 minutes, exactly as it had been given to them. It was clear it had been dinged in the microwave. Now considering this, you would have expected your food back in a few minutes, not 10. On starting to eat it, parts of it were warm and other parts not warm at all, which is strange in itself. Perhaps it had been microwaved and left sitting again before being served to us. We did advise the staff of this. However, we were so hungry that we ate what we could and took the rest home for the dog. Really disappointing to say the least.

Food and service was ok but offer no substitutes on meals where the party had allergies. Still served the meal with items that had been requested to be taken off due to allergy. A waste of food and bad experience.