The best restaurants serving Other cuisines food in Donard Down South Eastern NI

Situated on Central Promenade, Newcastle, Co.Down the covered outdoor seating gives a truly Mediterrean atmosphere as you admire the views of the harbour and Slieve Donard, the highest peak in Northern Ireland, as it sweeps down to the sea. Choose one of the fabulous Base Coffee drinks or select from the range of herbal teas. For morning snacks try the sausage rolls, croisants or scone with fresh jam. Then later in the day you must try the home baked apple pie of one of the delicious (but huge) tray bakes. Base Coffee is not just a coffee shop, it's a hub for many regulars and undoubtedly you will very quickly feel welcome.

First class operation run by a first class husband and wife team. Not sure where the owners did their training but the menu is fully worthy of a visit. I personally find the service to be of a proper American style "the customer is always right" standard with a very pleasant and relaxed dining environment.The daily soup and sandwich lunch deals cannot be beaten anywhere and the baked potatoes are a culinary delight, highly recommended.

From the missing signage and unkept frontage this place cries out NO ONE CARES for me. It doesn’t get much better inside. From handprints all over the glazed areas of the both front doors ( it would be ok if it was form maybe one kid or something ) to greasy scummy surfaces half wiped tables to sad deteriorating fabric and edges of the chiller cabinets just plain not clean these owners must be blind or missing in action or just can’t be bothered their team are just lost being in minimum wages and very underperforming and undervalued and underpaid. You get out what you put in I guess. Looks like a CCTV heaven kind of place with some many cctv cameras littered around with the operators sleeping at the wheel. Like a Car crash waiting to happen. God love the staff in this godforsaken excuse for a cafe. It’s seen much better days and better times. Guess it’s at the bottom of the street for a reason. Needless to say breakfast was thrown together with the greasiest bacon known to man and the hardest egg I’d need a rock hammer to break the yolk. And so it continued. A visit to the toilet was an experience like no other. Flip me you’d need to wrap up before going here again. No climate control except to say it was colder in here than outside and it was cold and miserable out there not a radiator or fan heater in sight. Again tired old furniture and scummy feel. Toilets are all up a step which isn’t a problem but a tad unusual if they were clean, dirty toilet seats and toilet brushes. No soap to wash hands was to be found and a lively freezing cold taps to wash your hands in. Is there not some environment law being broken here? Is hot water/ warm water not needed to try to irradiate bacteria from travelling by handwashing ? The dryers were not much better and needed a good proper clean or replacing maybe. This place needs a really good gutting revamp and flushing of postive enthusiastic staff maybe selling by the delusional company/ individual(s) that own it . I really wanted to take the staff all out for a few pints to cheer them up and ask them what was worrying them or what made them look so unhappy. Everything comes from above so if the leadership is toxic so this will filter down in an organisation and it for sure has here. Someone close or sell this poor dump of a cafe and put the poor customers out to more well deserved cafes who actually care for this customers value their business and repeat custom.

We were here for a beer. I hope it will be open soon. This bar had nice atmosphere, we enjoyed our visit here.

Just what we need to satisfy the ole sweet-tooth. Great service, we were in and out in 10-12 minutes. Great ice cream, the rum raisin was especially good.

We were here for my mums birthday. There were several large parties gor dinner but it didn't slow service. The food was incredible, particularly the squid. Staff were friendly and super efficient. The entertainment in the bar was great craic. I will definitely be back

Came in for ice creams at the ice cream counter to be served very quickly by the red haired supervisor. Very nice very friendly. However we had to wait in the queue for over 5 minutes with melting ice cream whilst this young petite girl standing at the counter decided not only to take her time taking money she started casually talking to her mate who was in before us while we had ice cream over our hands. Started to get fed up and noticed she stopped talking and then thought she was going to take our money eventually, nope she started talking to a member of staff not knowing who two ice cream sundaes belonged to. I had to pipe up, are you going to take our money here ? And the girl looked so ignorantly at me took my tenner and then slammed the change in my hand. That girl needs a lesson in running a busy ice cream shop where it took seconds to get the ice cream but wait in a queue to pay. This is an issue that I’m sure people will avoid again due to not wanting to buy a melted ice cream. At then end we had to gulp the ice cream down as by the time we got outside to enjoy it half of it was gloop dripping all over the place.

Lovely gluten free cheese and ham toastie with a nice fresh salad and coleslaw. The lady who served me was very friendly and helpful.

This place is amazing. I came here to celebrate my 21st birthday and booked the venue. Incredible service, catering and views of the sea. Could not recommend this place any more.