Stale ass french fries. Dried up horse meat burger. The milkshakes be inconsistent . The staff are…read moreall lovely tho

I sit alone surrounded by groups of three or four people who while bunched together are not talking…read moreto each other. Instead they are all tapping away on various electronic devices. It's oddly quiet and a bit like sitting in a library. American day so far with two Starbucks coffees consumed and now this place. Dunno why it is but I'm in the mood for 'junk' food. Ironically there's a local sandwich bar right next door and the friendly efficient guy who took my one whopper (£3.89) one whopper free has just come in from buying his food next door. I suppose he's been here often enough to want something different. At nearly £4 for a burger it ain't cheap to add fries and a drink it comes out at about £5.50 - so for me it's once in a blue moon and truthfully if it wasn't for the BOGOF I wouldn't have come near the place. While Mc Donald's uses dried rehydrated onions this place uses fresh mild Spanish type and it makes a great positive difference to taste. They also still serve Heinz ketchup and I read somewhere that Mc Donald's either had stopped or are about to stop this brand. Another mistake in my book as it's great quality.

I really don't know what the fuss is about this place. It serves overpriced, industrially produced,…read morerubbish food. I know people who have moved away to work and live and when they return home for visits a stop here is a must for them. I find that sad. I was with a group who decided to go here for their chicken burger and chips. It would never be my choice but I was well outnumbered. It was takeaway given the Wu flu and while I had this rubbish bought for me but I think it was around £7.5 for chicken breast burger & chips with a Diet Coke. The burger included a white bread roll and coleslaw. The chicken had a coating that was barely ok. The coleslaw was predominantly thin sliced white cabbage with a very well thinned down factory made mayonnaise. Euch. The Diet Coke was flat and had an unpleasant chemical note to its smell/taste. The factory made chips were a good size, cooked in a factory refined veg oil rather than animal fat but they were poorly cooked so they were limp and lukewarm and a deeply unpleasant eat after only a few minutes. The bread roll had all the texture of how I imagine damp cardboard - in short poor. Hunger made me eat the industrial chicken, I had some of the top part of the factory made bread roll and two chips. This is nasty food - it has the edge on Mc D's - but at the price it's sheer rip off. Hopefully I won't re experience this place. If you want this type of food try making your own as the quality and taste difference will be huge and your tummy and intestines will thank you.

Yum yum yum yum foods delicious reasonably priced huge portions friendly staff what more do you…read morewant?

This place is only newly open. It's about a three star. The coffee is great but the big breakfast…read moreis overpriced, which strikes me as perhaps short-sighted given that there's well established stiff competition close by. We turned up just before Christmas to try it out and although we arrived near lunch time we were surprised to find that the place wasn't warm. Winter in Ireland is damp and cool and when you go out for a meal the least you expect is warmth. It was funny when the staff came over to take back the HP sauce which was about a minute or so just after we asked for it. Now that we have tried it once, I can't see us returning here as there's nothing that makes it better than its competitors and certainly the higher price point is a factor. I can get equally cheap meats about 5 minutes walk either side of this place and the other places are cosy warm. There's little on the evening menu to attract me, another burger and chicken joint, with no fish selection at all, so maybe it's being geared to a much younger crowd. That aside, the servers were a friendly bunch.

After reading George's review I don't think it's fair to say you wouldn't return, the place is yet…read morea week old and it takes some time to work out the kinks and three stars doesn't sound to bad, or at least bad enough to say you wouldn't return. I can't wait to try CJ's on my next visit to Newry

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.

This place changed hands a while ago and it's been a long time since I last visited. Its my first…read morevisit since it became Number 7. Three of us dined. It's a bright & airy restaurant with good disabled access (but I wouldn't want to negotiate a wheel chair to the bathroom as it looks like it would be difficult with the current seating layout. The ambience is casual with friendly staff and great background music played at the right level to allow conversation. The seating is comfortable, the plates and bowl contemporary with glasses stamped with Jamie Oliver's name. The staff are mega friendly, it's well staffed so the service is attentive without being obtrusive and overall it's a relatively cheap and cheerful place to have a meal. There's free wifi albeit with the hassle of having to ask staff for a code having to log in with an 8 or 9 digit code. I had to ask twice before I got the code. Most importantly the food is fairly priced to match the dishes on offer and everything we got was cooked to perfection. To me its a reasonably priced upmarket greasy spoon (this is not a criticism just a way of describing cafe style 'fast' food) with the main fare being various burgers with variations of beef burgers with pepper sauce or with bacon or onion rings and so on. The chicken burger is breast meat with a light batter and there's a vegetarian choice burger too. There was one pasta dish which was vegetarian and add a £1 if you wish to include chicken, but no option to add prawns. The menu also offered sandwiches, salads and soups. Most mains were around the £8 mark. The blackboard specials did announce a fillet steak with chorizo, and pepper sauce about £20. The Facebook page did show previous dishes including tempura prawns and other more up market dishes but no sign of them when we were there. I had two pieces of lightly battered thin hake, a wet white fish (I prefer cod or haddock) with factory prepared, bought - in potatoes for chips (properly cooked in veg oil and served piping hot) tasty tinned mushy peas and industrially made mayonnaise with added gherkins. No one soaks peas overnight nor makes fresh mayonnaise no doubt it's blamed on elf & safety. Soaking the peas would produce a mega tasty product. One real bug bear for me - the diet coke serving in tiny 190 ml bottles is a real rip off. I seen babies bottles bigger. This American giant is taking the p**s. It makes it dearer than wine to buy a cheap, chemically sweetened fizzy drink. The unit cost of cola in the bottle must be well less than a penny. It's not good value for money for the customer either. Rant over. They do make good coffee too so all things considered well worth a visit.

This restaurant is one of the best in Newry. You can park outside and it is accessible for those…read morewith mobility difficulties. The food is top class, service excellent and prices very reasonable. If you are in the area, look no further.

Gotta hand it to this guy; I think he's a builder with a lot of liquidity and he's turned this…read moreplace into a very busy, well stocked mega mart with everything from a Himalayan salt dry-aged steak to fresh cream cake to a bag of coal. It's always busy. They do serve take-out lunches daily and the queues for Sunday lunch around £8 is always long. It brings a lot of employment locally. The car parking is free, the prices at the fuel station are competitive and their off licence has a great range of booze. I go chiefly for their black pepper sauce as it's a great base for me to add my own double cream and cognac when I cook fillet steak. One thing customers need to be mindful of is the heavily discounted products, while many are cheap their sell - by dates are often up and you could be buying something that tastes awful especially diet drinks and crisps that go rancid very fast. They make their own fresh 2 ounce steak burgers about £1 each in the butchery section. They are very good, but for me I still prefer my M&S 5% Aberdeen Angus minced beef for my own beef burgers. He still hasn't installed EV chargers so one has to go across the road to the Damolly Retail Park for that. Oh, speaking of EV charging, it made me laugh to see the Orange buffoon overturn the dignity of the White House to change it into a car showroom for the Muskrat's Swasticar - next they'll both be in a movie The Fast and the Führer. It's a funny old world.

This edge of city place is very popular judging by the drive-through queues and the folks who queue…read moreoutside in the rain as Wu flu precautions still prevent dine in. It's likely now that dine in will re open here in the next two weeks - 24 May 2021 - for all cafes and restaurants. There's not much to say about the food. It's mostly overpriced, high fat, high sugar, low fibre junk. I occasionally go through drive thru for a cheap coffee if I'm driving out of the city to go to another town as we've no drive thru Starbucks nor Costa nearby and I've never seen a drive thru local independent. The staff here are usually efficient, courteous and this is despite the fact that most staff earn a minimum rather than being paid a living wage when the owners could easily afford to pay their workers properly. The fact is that when governments set minimum wages, capitalism sees it as the maximum wage; the sensible solution must be that governments legislate for living wages and force a living wage for the low paid. The fact is that this international corporation has it both ways as it can and does effectively maximise the price of junk food (google the Big Mac index) and pay the least it can in wages and tax with the taxpayer subsidising the low paid worker and also the big earners. The corporation seems to see no contradiction in signing up to 'fair trade' coffee but won't sign up to fair wages. No wonder when advertising Mc Donald's says it's 'loving it' - yip, all the way to the bank and who knows where after it courtesy of taxpayers and ineffective politicians. Although this is a first review I've reviewed this place several times before so Yelp strikes again with disappearing my reviews.

Me and my family now hate this Mc Donald's. The last time we got food from this place it was way…read moretoo salty and greasy. Thepeople who work there were forgetful and rude. I'm not trying to be a Karen but it was incredibly bad. I would just drive to Dundalk instead to save my money. Do not even mention how unsanitary the public bathrooms were!!!!

I have never been so shocked at the lack of common sense in all my life. I ordered a double burger…read morewith red sauce but ultimately wouldve been better off ordering red sauce full stop. This burger was so drenched the pattys were slipping out of the bun and there was actually a pool of sauce which had accumulated in the corner of the box which housed this monstrosity. Honestly what possessed these individuals to do this? It is baffling. Seek therapy immediately. Ge-no-wha? You're s**t.

A first visit. This place boasts to be over 100 years in business. A take away codfish & chip is…read more£6.40 so it's overpriced by about £1. The chip portion is generous. The double cooked chips are just about alright, but not very good, as they weren't crispy, as if they are not cooked at the proper temperature. Too expensive not to be just perfect. You'd imagine with over 100 years in business they could serve up perfect fish and chips every time. The cod was cooked to order, which is a plus, but the cod is disappointingly quite thin. The batter is delicious and light though. The fish was good but again should be more chunky at this price. I had a look at the sit in menu as I waited for my order. I saw that a fish and chip for one person with tea, bread and butter is about £10. Again overpriced by £1.50 and no-one was sitting - in so join the dots. Why is it in this mentality that prompts a rip - off action rather than a fair price? The staff certainly are a friendly bunch. Parking on the plaza is a real challenge driver courtesy is hard to find. I won't rush back.

Four of us were in the nearby Canal Court hotel for our Sunday lunch when coffee was suggested…read more I thought it sensible to go next door to Grounded as I'd remembered that their coffee is ace and certainly well ahead of this hotel in quality but certainly not price. It has to be many years since I last had a coffee here, as I prefer other places that don't open on Sunday. I also identify its main customer base as the younger generation. I was surprised to find it almost empty on an early Sunday afternoon when my memory was that it was usually full. It's not a big place by any means and currently operates a one way system - one door in and a different door exiting. They are also only serving coffees etc in paper/plastic cups (even Starbucks have locked away the ceramics.) We had three coffees (cappuccino) and an iced drink. The coffees were ace and the service friendly. Our son wasn't impressed by his iced drink - he thought it insipid and watery. The piped music was great, but I must say I found the seating uncomfortable and the furnishings were as jaded as I now feel most days. Next time I want a Sunday afternoon coffee and I'm right next door I'll likely pop in but I'm afraid I do prefer a comfy seat.

Pretty darn good, this is where the young trendy things of Newry go to be seen (and you cant be…read moremissed with the glass windows!) Menu could be more extensive to suit its long opening hours, it really offers nothing in the way of hot food, apart from soup but what you get is good. Eco friendly and its all about fair trade and saving the rain forest in here. Great concept and well run, some of the staff are a bit way out looking but, hey I'm a geriatric so what the hell do I know about facial piercings? Sandwiches, bagels, paninis etc, and all day breakfasts