We had heard about this place from two different couples in the last week, so we thought we'd explore as lock-down is lifting, summer is running out (1 August already) and while I say summer it's been autumn for a few weeks now, and if you don't believe in climate change I'd have to disagree with you. So we knew that this place was half way up a mountain (in Irish terms, so not a very big mountain) very small inside and lots of seating outside. To use an expression - it's in the middle of nowhere. So the sat nav took us through Warrenpoint, Rostrevor, Kilkeel then through Annalong then into the Mourne mountain range. I'd say we clocked up 30 miles in an endeavour to find it and we did and it was as described. So we were half way up a mountain and parked on a slope in a small crowded parking area and the place was packed with customers so it was inside seating only. It was a small old house. We sat just inside the door adjacent to the old fire place in what was likely the kitchen years ago - we have more room in our bathroom at home. We noted some of the outside tables were made from pallets so it's a novel way to up or recycle. The food was really tasty. I opted for a bacon roll (£2.5) and for an extra quid I could change my bacon to Finneboro (see photo) as it has no nitrates and other muck that those who care more about profit than food use to ruin and cheapen it. As a bit of a foodie, just to have this choice delighted me. It's rare to find this but give me the choice to get better quality food and i'll take it every time thanks very much. I'll pay the extra and smile. We both had cappuccino (£2.5) but it was a bit confusing as a menu said it was (£2.7) and a chalk board said £2.5. Either way it was Illy so it was darn good coffee. My wife had the large fry up with 2 sausages, 2 bacon, fried egg, beans, mushrooms, potato bread, soda bread and half a tomato (£5.95). Everything had great taste - far better that our local shelbourne cafe in our home city. It's 5 star but as it was very busy and all the staff were lovely it was still annoying to find the coffees had gone quite cold before the cooked food arrived. Hope to return some day but it's quite a trek. read more

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