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Diamond Restaurant

4.3 (4 reviews)
ModerateBritish
Closed 9:00 am - 9:30 pm

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Bronte Steak House - Stainless steel urinal and no toilet tissue

Bronte Steak House

(5 reviews)

££

We were invited here by good friends, so we had to bite our tongues at some of the rubbish served…read moreup, but it spoiled what should have been a great night. We will never return here again. There's not much refinement here and certainly no finesse. Most of the starter choices don't involve much hard work by a cook. The menus sit on their website. I ordered prawn cocktail (£6.75) but the prawns were an unpleasant eat. The problem with the prawns was defrosting. This marred what should have been great flavour and made for an unpleasant fish texture, but I'm not sure if it was improper freezing at factory source, defrosting under cold water, which will certainly have this effect or defrosting, refreezing and defrosting again. In each case this destroys the delicate texture and subtle flavour of prawns. The owners should buy a bag of M&S Greenland prawns, defrost in a fridge and taste them to find out how these subtle, delicate morsels should taste and be served. They'd get 10 portions out of a bag. A proper chef would know that a little bit of French brandy in the cocktail sauce would also significantly help taste too and at £6.75 a portion an accountant might know it wouldn't break the bank. The prawns served here were well destroyed and not worth the £6.75 charged, in fact they were only fit for the cat or if there's no cat then the bin. At this point we would have left, if not for the fact we were guests. My wife had the same starter. I knew from her face that she disliked the prawns too as she was sipping alcohol to wash away the taste. That's not her. I ordered a fillet steak main, cooked medium, with French fried onions. The steak was fairly good but not 28 day dry aged. At near £29 it should be at least 28 day dry aged. My steak was cooked/served nearer to well done but I'm not precious about this. But the so-called semi solid, gloopy pepper sauce was revolting. It's included in the £29 price of the steak. If it's not out of a box with a heavy flour base it should be, it was rank. Likewise the French fried onion batter (£3.5) was thick, oil saturated, not crisp and just terrible. It amazes me that folks can live on a reputation and get away with awful throwback food that should have stayed in the 1970's. I'm astonished too that the owners are satisfied in themselves to serve this grim food to customers, I couldn't do it. I have a tip for the cooks here; go to the Linenhill restaurant nearby at Banbridge and sample a chef's pepper sauce and French fried onions - both are wonderful. My wife also had steak and she barely touched her pepper sauce, so it sat visibly congealing and it formed a shiny dark top cracked skin from the heavy use of flour. It went back to the kitchen where it should never have been allowed to leave. I offered our hosts my French fried onions and they ate them, otherwise they too would have gone back to the kitchen. One of our hosts ordered mushrooms with his steak. He didn't get them rather they ended up on my wife's plate. She hadn't ordered mushrooms. They looked unappetising, small, over cooked and like they came out of a tin. They too went back to the kitchen uneaten. The lemon meringue pie was quite good but while the lemon filling was beautifully tart and the meringue too was darn good the pie base should be made using salted butter particularly at £5.75 for what was a mean portion. They didn't have bitter lemon to go with gin. We were offered a sparkling water based lemon san pellegrino to put in the gin. No thanks. Likewise their English mustard isn't Colman's so evidence of penny pinching. We had rubbish Irish coffees too. Poorly made and so diluted they were quite unpleasant. The gents toilet was cold, it has a stainless steel urinal, a rusty hand dryer and no toilet tissue. I was going to tell the young serving staff but I thought if they couldn't be arsed (pun intended) to check why should I. So I didn't. I hope this review improves things for future guests but we will not benefit as we won't return and thankfully we were guests, I'd have hated to hand over my hard earned here but then we would have left at the starters. Just barely 2 stars as I don't think I can justify one star but it really, really, really is a close run thing.

Arrived for a Groupon with a party of 4, so two on the Groupon and two not. Very welcoming although…read morechilly but I think as fire hadn't kicked in. Was a lovely ambiance and nice to go into the lounge and relax before being brought to the table when food was ready. Food was lovely. My mum and dad got the Groupon of a sharing platter, rack of ribs, chicken breast and two steaks -great portions as well (I sampled a bit of all) The steak was cooked to a lovely medium rare and the ribs were very tender and yummy. Chicken was a big breast. The sides were good portions and also homemade chips, you can definitely taste the difference. My husband had the steak ciabatta which again was tasty as he finished the plate load, although he had asked for medium and it was more well done than medium. The food was really tasty and plentiful, the only gripes I would have was that the steaks came and it was a good 3-4 minutes before other food, sauces and sides came. Great value and was busy for a Tuesday which is a good sign of the quality of food. It was my second time there and would definitely recommend. Although says Banbridge it is about 5/10 minutes out the Newry side of it. (be warned you can easily get lost on the country roads)

Friar Tucks - Part of our food  order

Friar Tucks

(5 reviews)

It's trashy, it's not so cheap any more, it's delicious!…read more Super FT all the way! You couldn't beat it with a big stick! LOVE the Friar Tuck-ness!

As fast food goes it's one of the better joints, certainly more expensive than most fast food…read moreplaces but if I go here once every two years that's the height of it. Needless to say it's not my choice ever, and I don't mind if I never return. Unlike Mc Donald's, the industrially made chips are chunky here and the portion is fairly generous. The chips don't go cold too quickly either. The taste suggests they are fried in vegetable oil. They even offer vinegar sachets. Mc D chips are grim and there wouldn't be a single decent size potato's worth in a medium serving. My choice here was their chicken fillet burger and that's what you get, a very lightly battered decently portioned piece of chicken breast in a white bread seeded bun. It costs about £5.50. Add another £2 for a fizz less soft drink and chips The chicken is stringy, which is what happens when chicken is frozen then cooked more than once. I had coleslaw atop; well not really coleslaw it's white cabbage slaw as it was only white cabbage and industrially made, persil white mayonnaise, with no shortage of mayonnaise. No fresh tomato, no pickled gherkin, no fresh lettuce. Little chance of a part of your five a day here, maybe the chips. I tried a child's chicken nugget and it was again a very light batter and chicken breast. Again not like you - know - who that finds it acceptable to mince chicken breast meat and skin about fifty - fifty and serve this up to kids, euch. A child's meal with a soft drink is £4. I looked and smelled the chicken gravy. Oh dear, no thank you. It had the consistency of well mixed cement. It also had a skin on top which was resistant to chip dipping - so the kid I watched pushed the gravy skin to one side. We were upstairs which was uncomfortably cold, barely comfortable seats, factory warehouse dull and had a faint whiff of chicken gravy, which I found unpleasant.

Harry's Bar - The usual spot

Harry's Bar

(2 reviews)

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Encompasses all the charm of Banbridge, had a great time, tried to tip the barman with no luck…read more Chatted with some of the locals who were not Liverpool fans (shame on them) highly recommend stopping in!

Oh a warm Thursday afternoon my better half and I decided to try a local Bar/Kitchen for some food…read more Online the review looked good but old, so was wondering what it would be like having recently only moved to the area. When you walk in you are in a Bar and an appealing bar too I must say nice wooden old time features and lots of TV's if you want to watch some sports. Even the local bar flies where pleasant. When you walk through to the back you come to the open kitchen and then your waiter who will seat you. I can't remember our waiters name but we had 3 different people throughout the night. We had a choice of seats which is not surprising for a Thursday night I guess. The menu is small but has a lot on it, fish looks to be a speciality. We ordered a pint of Harp and some house wine and it was as you would expect. Now the menu had chicken wings for a starter and I am a sucker for wings esp hot wings! These where butter coated wings I think was the term. I had o try them none the less. I also ordered a fillet steak medium and some garlic chips. My partner ordered the ribs with Sweet potato fries. Our wings as you can see came in those wee buckets that things come in now very nice and with a BBQ dip. As I mentioned being a hot wing fan I do like my celery with my wings and I also like the wing to come separated as usually it's a mess trying to do it yourself. These wings however where lovely and came apart with ease. A lot nicer than the ones we had in the Balmoral! The batter was light and crisp and the BBQ sauce was a nice taste with it. A happy wing customer I would say. The mains came out quickly after and I normally like a bit of a weight if I am honest but none the less. The ribs looks great with 3 parts piled up with "slaw" and the steak was amazing. It came with onion rings and shored on top of two roast potatoes and surrounded by pepper sauce. Now I do love a good steak and this did not disappoint. Cooked exactly how I wanted and was just perfect. The sides where lovely too not too much garlic on the chips. I was unable to finish the whole lot but enjoyed it! I never got a chance to taste the ribs but they did look good. At this point we were both stuffed and really wanted to try the after eight brownie but just couldn't fit it in and retreated to the front bar for more drinks. We noticed you can also get food here and plenty where. All in all a great time and would 100% go back! Service was great and polite. Now I think I had 3 drinks and 2 wines plus the start and two mains came to about £50 which was great value. You will see the size of the steak in the pictures I think it was 10oz. Would definitely recommend to people but book if you're going at the weekend. They also have a stone oven for the pizzas which looked great.

Diamond Restaurant - british - Updated May 2026

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