The large half portrush lobster is to die for!!!!!!!!!! We really wanted to get lobster during our…read morestay for The Golf. I was lucky to snag one last lunch reservation at 2:45pm online. The best dining experience in Portrush. Great service. Seaside views. Amazing food and wine. The Camembert cheese was amazing. My friend ordered the sticky toffee pudding for dessert and it was very decadent. I only had a taste of it as I am not a sweets person but it was very good. So glad we got to have the lobster. It had some amazing savory lemon and Parmesan crumbing on top. Plenty to share. This was a wonderful dining experience!

Pros: Great location on the beach…read moreWonderful food and drinks - I especially enjoyed the mussels, which was flavorful and delicious The Shack seafood chowder was some of the best I've ever had globally! Not too creamy and with lots of flavor The bread and butter was a perfect pair Pro tip: Be sure to make a reservation, even in the winter as it gets busy!

Wowser, what a restaurant! The Water Margin is right up there on my list of favourite places to…read moreeat, having been there for romantic dinners with the husband before he became the husband and for a very raucous birthday party at which the husband insisted on singing. Before the karoke machine was turned on. The setting is spectacular - this is a large building right on the edge of the River Bann, so ask when you are booking for a window table and you'll have a stunning view as you eat and drink. The interior of the restaurant is just as impressive - a large, high ceiling room with a giant chandelier in the centre. So, what about the food? It certainly lives up to the setting. I would describe this as upmarket Chinese food rather than the kind of place to grab your Friday night sweet and sour. The prices reflect the setting and the quality and for special occasions I am more than happy to pay them. On our last visit I had satay chicken skewers and seaweed, both of which were top notch. I than had shredded chilli beef which I also loved, and the husband had king prawns in yellow bean sauce which I felt obliged to try and also really liked. We had side orders of special fried rice and noodles and I could have eaten either of these on their own. I was pleased to see that there is a tea time special menu at £9.95 for 3 courses which is outstanding value given the quality of food and the lovely service you get. Can't wait until the next time we go back.

Eat here quite a bit and can't complain about anything. The food and service is excellent. I'd…read morerecommend anyone passing through to call in and try it. They do a shoppers special which is great value too

I was very pleasantly surprised by this place. It has a beautifully inviting exterior, it's a stand…read morealone building unlike most of the places i visit in America, which are often strip-mall based. Newbridge Restaurant sits just off a roundabout, and my friend and I had been sightseeing in Northern Ireland, and we were STARVED, after a hard cold day. We saw it in passing, and went back around the roundabout because it was 7 hours since breakfast and were dropping from starvation. The interior was equally inviting, and warm!! The building is inviting, no doubt about it, and the car park pleasantly full, so you knew it could be decent food. The menu was 2 courses for 12 Pounds, which a lot of UK/Irish places feature, and i had expected there's be a limited menu, but such was not the case - it was fairly extensive, and even had specials. I got Spicy Pear and Parsnip Soup with homemade wheaten bread to start, she got Portobello Mushroom with Blue Cheese, Rocket, Sunblush Tomatoes, Red Onion, Parmesan and Balsamic. I have to say this soup was an absolute delight, and i congratulate the use of the humble (Yet hard to find a decent one in Alaska) parsnip, it was superb, with a kick of heat to elevate it. Just a touch of sweetness from the pear, but it was sublime. The wheaten bread, used extensively throughout Irish restaurants was delicious and hearty, and a perfect accompaniment to the creamy thick soup. She adored her gigantic portobello, which was full of cheesy goodness. For our entrees, i selected the Italian Chicken which was a butterflied breast, topped with Parma ham wrapped around Brie, and a rocket salad with balsamic, she went for the Wild Mushroom Linguine, which was drizzled with truffle oil. I must say, it was different than anything I've had before, the cheese with the Parma ham was a really delicious enhancement, to the chicken which can sometimes be bland, but not on this occasion. The rocket and balsamic were beautiful. She couldn't finish her linguine - pasta can be filling i find, she did enjoy the selection of mushrooms. Despite the fact that the prix fixe was 2 for 12 pounds, we opted to get a dessert regardless. Just because we'd earned it, with some hard walking that day. She got a chocolate brownie with fudge sauce, and whipped cream, and i got a banana sundae that i simply could not finish. All in all, it was a delicious meal.

Nine Months…read more That's how long it's taken for me to find a steak and service here in Northern Ireland comparable, or even better than the steak I ate and southern hospitality service I experienced for 7.5 years in Texas... and I found it here at The Newbridge. So we were in Portrush for the day, heading to Belfast to drop my brother off at the bus and I mention I'm hungry, its dinner time, we should stop somewhere. Going on no other information than the car park was packed, we hung a u-turn and pulled in. No reservation, Friday night, packed car park, I expected to be told to sling my hook, or wait 40 minutes for a table, but the nice host even helped find a threenager appropriate table upstairs for us to sit at, no wait - excellent first impression. The blonde dude upstairs (I didn't catch his name) got us sorted with drinks quickly, order in, starters came out in good time. Col enjoyed the black pudding scotch egg, my brother, threenager and I enjoyed the garlic cheese ciabatta. But the mains were the moneyshot. Col had the shredded duck w/ sweet potato fries, brother had the beef chili penne w/ salt and chili chips, threenager had the chicken penne carbonara and I had the fillet steak w/ chips and veggies for the table. I. can't. even. On how good this food was. My steak was cooked to perfection - exactly the way I asked (which, as it turns out, has been difficult for NI chefs to accomplish to date), and not an ounce of fat to be seen! My brothers chili wasn't a traditional chili as you'd expect, it had a sweet chili element to it, but it was delicious, that and his salt and chili chips packed a hot punch, but he loved it. Cols duck was tasty and plentiful and the threenager splatter-painted the entire top floor of the restaurant with carbonara sauce while gleefully shouting "mmmmm delicious!" I really wanted to try dessert, but told blonde dude (sorry, blonde dude, I wish I'd asked your name but by the end of the meal felt it was rude to be all "here bai what's yer name?") I was in a rush, he told me I could get it to go - so I ordered salted caramel cheesecake, cause I thought it'd be easiest to eat on my knee. Confession time: I *may* have acquired one of y'all's forks to take with me so I could eat my dessert on the way to the train station. But rest assured I'll get it back to you - promise! With that said, the cheesecake was devoured on my knee. We all thought it was delicious. Not a single bad thing to say about this place, from easy and plentiful parking, to the absolute nicest staff in any restaurant in the north I've been in in my nine months being back home, to the most delicious steak I've had in a long time and incredibly well priced too! I now need a nap...And to plan a re-visit before our next expat adventure begins! Check this place out for sure!!

Stellar service!! I mean, I don't know if it was intentional but it felt like a floating service…read more We had plenty of waitstaff the kept our drinks full and made sure our orders came out hot! Garlic bread is incredible though the "aioli" tasted like it was just mayo but the bread didn't need it at all. Goujons were good but the bbq sauce didn't taste bbq at all. The pepper sauce was nice though. Star here was the rotisserie chicken: fall off the bone and cooked perfectly. Again though, sauce was mid. Nothing on this menu needs a sauce (except Goujons) but they all come with them! Dishes def stand alone. All that said, the device made the meal!

A great place for a chill glass of wine or Guinness while watching sports…read more I was told by one of the British Open parking attendants to come here to get a drink. I walked up the hill and there it was. Lot of people standing outside on the patio but no seats. I went in to the small bar on the lower level and a very friendly male bartender waited on me. I wandered upstairs to the second level where it was a huge space and had plenty of big screen TVs for the golf. I found the place to be very comfortable and great views of the water. The young guy at the second level bar was nice but a bit of an airhead (the drink was £11 and I handed him £20, he stood waiting for more money and ummmmmmm didn't I give you a 20? He seemed clueless about the money) We had a laugh but prob a good idea to know what the local money looks like! The top level of this place was an amazing view but it was Sunday afternoon and the bar was not open. Has more of a night feel. It's a fantastic building and I enjoyed my visit.

Atmosphere and service are great. Very friendly staff and some cozy corners and unique seating…read moreareas in this establishment. The food was unfortunately on the bland side. We enjoyed the appetizer of Guinness and onion soup and the Inn's bread but they weren't as special as the menu descriptions made them out to be: the whiskey and smoked cheese roll was hard to tell either of those flavors but the butter and pesto were very good. The soup was fine but I guess we had high expectations for it to be better than your average French onion soup. Again for entrees I think the menu descriptions built up our expectations but everything seemed even more bland than the apps. The BAHARAT SPICE RUMP OF IRISH LAMB was cooked well but was pretty flavorless even with the hummus and sauce and the lamb fat potato stack just soft potato. The unique piccolo peppers were the only thing that provided some pop to the dish- maybe it wasn't seasoned properly? The filet with the Bushmills whiskey black pepper cream and roast mushroom tomato and rocket was seasoned a little better but the cream was lacking some punch. Good but not great. It all sounds good but doesn't feel like elevated cooking especially for the price. Finally the desserts were split. We ordered a shot of the Bushmills 10 yr to go with the butterscotch sundae which made the sundae perfect. Without it I'm thinking way too sweet. The milk and honey delice was disappointing. We ate the ganache and left the rest. The crust had a strange herb like flavor that was very unappealing.

This is a beautiful restaurant and the service was impeccable. But it is very expensive for both…read moredrinks and food in comparison to other establishments in town. It is probably why the local folks we met did not recommend it because it was expensive. But overall we had a good experience and cannot complain about the quality of the food or service.

Great dinner. My daughter to try Ocho Tapas Bistro and it did not disappoint. The atmosphere was…read morecasual and very relaxing. The food was amazing. We started out with some bacon wrapped prawns that were delicious. With my main course I tried the french fries covered in mayo and a Japanese sauce that was delicious. If you have any questions about the menu just ask your server.

Great food. The sausages / chorizo with paprika were a bit spicy for me - be warned! But everything…read morewe had was scrumptious. The "large" sangria was ok, but pricey. I am glad I reviewed my bill, some mistakes were made. Only star I am docking.

Excellent food, better service, wonderful decor. We all had the haddock fish and chips, all loved…read morethem and to no one's surprise they had Guinness on the tapper. Drive up the the Giants Causeway and make this a stop.

Recently stayed over in Ireland in Portstewart and hit up Portrush daily. Spent most of our nights…read moreeating dinner through here. Spinnaker's was friendly, cozy, chilled out and exactly what I like in a wee pub/restaurant. Decked out in maritime regalia, from miniature ships to bunting made of buoys at the entrance, it's everything you would want in a seaside tavern. The staff were really friendly, the food was reasonably priced and very tasty - crumbly fish and fat chips were the perfect end to a busy day! It's not as flashy and in your face as some of the other diners in town, but it should not be overlooked. Spinakker's offers good service and lovely, affordable food without frills and fuss, but certainly with character. With a good family vibe and warm atmosphere, it's a restaurant for all weathers, and shouldn't be cast over - it's a bit more of a secret, but it's got substance.

Best freshest fish and chips I've ever had. Lives up to the reputation in County Antrim area in…read moreNorthern Ireland. After a day sighting at the Giants Causeway and Rope bridge a great treat to dinner. Next time we'll know to bring some pounds to buy a beer at the cash only bar to enjoy with the freshly caught cod.

Exactly the kind of place I was looking for. Right on the shore. Lots of places to sit, and…read moreshopping around it and the best fish and chips I've had. Highly recommend it. crispy not greasy fresh fish excellent. If you are a tourist visiting Ireland, take the drive and treat yourself to a beautiful drive and great fish.

Still as awesome as it was when I last came a few years back!…read more Food is undeniably good, affordable and the staff are friendly, Finest food in the city, for sure!

They were very accommodating of our large group. The food was good ... a little under seasoned for…read moremy taste. It was VERY noisy, hard to have a conversation. Would I come back? Probably.

A brillaint little pub in a quiet village. It has a reasonable sized private car park and some…read moreoutside seating for those (few) sunny days of the summer. Serves food, all homecooked and typical pub standard. Reasonably well priced and good sized portions. It also has a childrens menu. It sesrves a wide variety of alcohol and soft drinks, all at quite a 'normal' price. It also has live bands and dj's in if not every weekend then most certainly the majority. Decorated to a good standard, warm and welcoming perfectly sum up this pub.