Mournes is modern seafood in Belfasts city center. (Next door to Kelly's cellar, good for a drink…read morebefore or after.) We made reservations a couple days ahead of time and were seated immediately. The restaurant is small and modern, the menu short. They also had a nice cocktail and wine menu, with a section on more interesting wines. We started with the peach fizz and strawberry fields. Both were lighter, summery cocktails. We shared the oysters, won ton soup, and the sea bass, and were too full for dessert. The oysters were local, and lovely. The wonton was actually a soup, served with shrimp crackers, really good flavor, just the right amount of spice. The fish was also cooked well, I liked the saffron potatoes as something just a bit different. Nice service, more than one staff took their time to be friendly at our table. They do accept walk ins, but it is about timing. During peek season, consider a reservation.

My only Fish & Chips venture during my week in Belfast, Mourne Seafood Bar delivered! It's a place…read morethat gives you one large piece. Everything was clearly fresh, the fries and fish were blazing. Great service, cool ambiance. Definitely worth a shot!

Nice people - cold drinks…read more Ordered food - nice lunch Looks like good dinners Food was delicious

A fantastic find. Goat cheese salad outstanding. Seafood chowder and tomato broth suburb!! Prime…read morerib very tender. Freaking amazing homemade breads. Don't miss the opportunity to dine here.

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!

The setting is absolutely fabulous, the food delicious and the service very friendly. An absolute…read moremust on a nice day

This little spot off the beaten path near the ferry is an absolute must! While heading over to the…read moreferry, we were looking for a place to have lunch and nothing seemed to be open. Came across this and was a little skeptical on the location alone, but it showed open so we went for it and boy was it worth it! Driving out to a castle ruin, the cabin is just off the water looking to the west with free-air tables and farm next to. All the seafood is freshly caught and prepared to order, and absolutely amazing. When in Scotland, mussels are an absolute must! We had the full seafood platter plus the mussels and we all wanted to eat more and more. If we didn't have to catch the ferry to Islay, we could have easily stayed for a second helping and enjoyed the view and laid back atmosphere. The staff is friendly and wonderful and it's just a picturesque place to eat.

I had an absolutely wonderful evening at Campbell's Restaurant, sipping champagne and eating the…read moremost sensational food, so precisely prepared with just the right amount of everything and served by waiting staff who do a great job of looking after you and making you feel welcome. A few days before our visit, I emailed the restaurant to book a table and to request a vegan option, as this is predominantly a seafood restaurant and booking in advance is a must, due to its popularity among locals and those who make a special trip to enjoy their locally sourced ingredients. I was assured that the chef would ensure there would be a vegan option available for me, so I was stunned when I arrived to find that they had prepared a vegan menu for me, with a choice of three starters and three mains, any of which would have suited me perfectly. After a lot of deliberation over the amazing offerings, I went for oyster mushrooms in garlic and parsley olive oil, followed by tomato and pimento risotto, with spinach and rocket, then finished off with coffee and mints. This is fine dining at its absolute best and everything was so delicately crafted and perfectly flavoured in a way I have never experienced before. My boyfriend loves seafood and he adores this place, always opting for the seafood platter, which is a mountain of weird and wonderful seafood, which he assures me is delicious. The fish couldn't be any fresher as it's caught right outside the door and everything is sourced locally so that the ingredients are of the highest quality. Campbell's is the nicest restaurant I've ever been in, due to its superior food, staff who make you feel like royalty and perfectly laid tables with hand-crafted cutlery and napkins folded to perfection. It really is a cut above the rest in the area and well worth a journey to Portpatrick.

Now this is the place to eat in portpatrick plenty of choice and great fresh seafoodread more

Absolutely a gem! Our tour brought us here for lunch after visiting Giants Causeway and my dad…read moreordered the seafood chowder - he was totally blown away and said this was the best chowder he had in his life! I ordered chicken tenders bc you never know, and i figured you cant really screw up chicken tenders. It was tasty and the fries were PERFECT. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. Totally reasonably priced too. Both our meals including beers was like 30£. Service was friendly and restrooms were modern and clean :)

Absolutely, without a doubt, the best meal we've had in Northern Ireland. We stopped in for lunch…read moreafter reading the Yelp recommendations for Cushendall. Our party of four ordered the fish and chips, salmon, hamburger, and seafood chowder, along with the obligatory pints of Guiness and gin and tonics. The service was exemplary and all the dishes were presented beautifully. Outstanding cuisine! By far, the best food experience we've had this holiday. Don't miss it!

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.

Very relaxed and comforting atmosphere, even during the peak of the open championship. Delicious…read morefood and attentive wait staff.

So, this was one of the weirdest experiences we've had in a long time. We arrived right before…read moreopening and joined a queue, waiting to enter. We were sat at a lovely table by a staff member and given menus. We looked it over and waited and waited.... No one came to the table. We learned 30 minutes later that we had to go order at a bar, and that no one actually takes your order. It wasn't clear, because there were no signs, instructions, and waiters were bringing food to the tables. We then hungrily joined a standing line to order. A waitress told us to move forward to an open spot to order, only to find that the spot was not in fact ready for a new order. We waited in that spot for so long that 4 parties ordered before us, that were behind us in line. They ordered at the register that we originally were in line for. No one acknowledged us, no clear order was advertised. It was SO weird! So we finally order, and after a very expensive bill for the food that we ordered, we were told to wait standing until the drinks were made. We needed to walk the drinks back to our table. We waited and waited, while they took other people's orders. After while, a staff member showed us that the drinks were waiting for us, ice melted, and no one told us. Ugh. We go back to the table. Many tables around us ate and are leaving, as they seem to rush people in and out. We wait for 40 minutes and our food isntvthere. We ask about it, and right away, someone else's order shows up. It's not our food. We bring it to attention of the server, and they take it away. After a while our food arrives. The dishes were good, drinks ok. The service seemed like they tried to be friendly but it was such a disorganized crap show that they might not have realized how bad it really was. My family wanted to shop after but we were so ready to leave the area, we just took off. Bad experience, wish we tried another recommendation. We spent a lot of time, a lot of money, and really felt taken advantage of.

We went here, there was a tiny little bar. No food. We were looking for a place that served food so…read morewe left.

Stopped here for lunch on the way to Ballycastle and extremely glad we did. Menu is full to the…read morebrim of delicious things to eat, including a very extensive vegetarian menu alongside their seafood selections. Our family of five were very happy with everything we received, including the goat cheese puffs (which were absolutely phenomenal), seafood medley, and pea and mint risotto.

I'm not sure where the lack of love is coming from for this place, but we had the opposite…read moreexperience! We came in, very hungry, after a tour at the distillery, and very cold due to the arctic gale force winds that let smacking us! Once inside, we considered just moving in! The place is literally at the entrance to the Giants Causeway visitors center parking lot. It's a cute, rustic (like every other building in the area) building with equally quaint interior that trends towards a pub with a subtle nautical theme. Darker woods, lighter walls, a nice bar and several rooms that lead into each other, but seem very separate. The vibe is perfect! They've got plenty of Irish pub fare, most of which is hot - a key piece of info as most fingers were fighting for feeling at this point. We ordered Steak and Guinness pie, fish pie, fish and chips, a couple scones and Irish Stew. Ravenously hungry, we tackled this beastly lunch and all left full and warm. The scones were closer to biscuits, but were probably the best we've had in the country - and my better half loves her some scones! The food came out quick - the place was crazy busy and it still took less than 10 minutes. By the time we were done, we wondered if we could just stow away in the basement and live off the scones and cream! Parking was best done in the visitors center parking lot so make sure you're coming out here where you've already paid for the trip out to the coastline. The was exactly what we hoped it would be and exactly what we were looking for on this typical Irish spring day!

If you want to grab a bite before or after visiting the Causeway and you enjoy suffering, The Nook…read moreis the place for you. Our group ordered three meals. A "steak burger" for me, a chicken ciabatta for my wife, and a chicken sandwich for our friend that was nothing more than bread, mayo, and chicken. All three dishes shared one thing in common: a level of disappointment I didn't think food could physically achieve. My burger was somehow crunchy and chewy at the same time. I don't know how that is physically possible. The temperature was off, the taste was weird, and the texture felt like it was actively fighting back. My wife's chicken had fake grill lines and actual gray spots, which is exactly the kind of visual you want right before eating. Our friend's sandwich made him sick, which honestly felt like the most accurate review of the entire meal. Inside, the vibe would be cool if anything had been updated since The Troubles, but it hasn't. You order at the bar, where the staff greets you with the emotional warmth of a DMV waiting room. You also get to pay for tap water, which really ties the whole experience together. The food tasted like it came from the back of a freezer last touched in 2005. It fully lives up to the stereotype of bland, sad, English-adjacent cooking. Even prison food probably clears a higher bar. It's crowded, but only because there are two food options in the whole area. Even with that, stay hungry. Wait until you're back in Belfast or Dublin. A gas-station Burger King will bring you more joy. And yes, it's overpriced. Painfully so. It would have been overpriced even if the food were good, which it wasn't. What absolutely blows my mind is that this place somehow averages four stars on Yelp. I am genuinely shocked. I don't know who is rating this, but I can only assume they all lost bets or taste buds. Final verdict: The Causeway is incredible. The Nook is not. Go if you genuinely enjoy misery in restaurant form.