Great wee coffee shop,beautiful breakfast baps/sodas brilliant staff and in the good weather a…read morewonderful little outside sitting area where all the craic of the day is discussed about the local Dundalk FC,and all at affordable prices in this day and age

I think we have a new winner for coffee in "da town". That was nice experience. Sitting in on the…read moreMain Street in Dundalk having a coffee and a lovely cookie while outside you see the hustle of the night goers go from one pub to the next. There was something nice about been out in town but not actually going out out to drink alcohol. It's a small cafe but that adds to its uniqueness and charm. They have a few gift items for sale if you want to treat yourself. Range of food to go with your coffee but at the moment it's not a full range. Staff were friendly and chatty.

Came here after hearing great great things from family in the area. We had the shakshuka and…read morecoffee. It was just amazing. And then we had desserts which was just out of this world. Stranfield we will be back

Vegetarian café with great food and ambiance (4.5/5 Green Stars)…read more We stopped here en route to Carlingford on a friend's recommendation and all three of us were very happy we did. The place is lovely - the café is filled with light and plants and the surroundings are beautiful. Mum is a picky eater but she relished the mushroom quiche and finished the entire piece even though it was huge! (Seriously - about three times the size of portions elsewhere.) My brother loved his herbed rice bowl and I liked the organic porridge with fruit and the pistachio plum cake. The only kink was that several items arrived much later than the food - the coffees, bread, and honey for my porridge (I had already finished my porridge by then). The store is filled with great stuff - fresh fruit and veg, and a good selection of some of the most ethical products. Weirdly, the Strandfield website contains no info other than an address, so you have to rely on reviews to get info in advance. The lunch menu is mostly comprised of sourdough pizza, salads (including a quinoa bowl and herbed rice bowl), and sandwiches - see menu photo. There are also lots of bakery items, including freshly baked scones, cakes and wheaten bread (which was really good - I bought one to take home). I'm giving Strandfield café 4.5 out of 5 Green Stars for social and environmental impact, for these reasons: · I didn't actually notice at the time but the menu is 100% vegetarian! · Strandfield uses free range eggs from their own farm. · My porridge was made with organic oats · Flowers and plants in the café come from Stranfield's own nursery · The grocer sources local and organic fruits and vegetables along free range eggs, and organic health foods · The store stocks a really good selection of ethical goods - I could do most of my shopping here if I lived here. · Strandfield would benefit from providing more info (on the website or menu) on ingredient sourcing.

The perfect place for a light meal or cofee and cake. I…read moredrpped the mids at tennis practice and was driven to this place by a friend. Nice atmosphere for all ages, good cofee and a vey nice cheese cake.

It was a cool, dry 5c this morning in this Irish border town. It was St Patrick's day eve…read more We were in the town's 'legal quarter' near their courts where people receive the law rather than 'justice'. The two are rarely seen together and when they are often it's unintended. Unlike my Yelp friend Grey, who seems rarely to slow or stop, I arose early reluctantly on this morning, as I normally only do so to go on holiday, but I had agreed to assist someone negotiate a complex matter that once done with the dotted line signed (it was a dotted line) a human life saw a familiar world change utterly completely in a few seconds and I believe very likely for the better. We'll see. As we left the official task which took a whole 25 minutes we enquired about good coffee from our host, who pointed us to 23 Seats just a short walk away from our Roden place venue. We were assured it was wonderful. It was. The wall sign above the door reads 23 eats until you get close enough to see the S wedged into the front wall. They've done well if they have 23 seats. I doubt they could host 23 folks simultaneously. I didn't count them but it sure is a compact and bijou coffee place. It's within Dundalk town centre, with character and a soul; quirky music tastes, environmentally focussed, and vegans cheerfully catered for oh and I smile to confirm its pet friendly too. We only needed good coffee and that's what we got: we opted for one cappuccino and one flat white - €6 for both. We paid up front by card so we could just go when we were done. We had a table near the rear entrance and, as they were receiving a delivery, it wasn't pleasant as a chilly damp breeze came through the door left open. This is one of those places that are now rare to me as I really want to go back to explore their food selections as it's not a typical coffee stop - they think about the environment and they focus on meeting diverse customer needs. So five green stars. I'm not a vegan but if the ingredients are to my taste I couldn't care less about the label. Who wants chemical filled food of food coloured by derivatives from the crude oil and petroleum industry; I'd rather not. The staff too were charming despite the huge pressures small independent businesses and poorer families must faces for at least the next five years. We in the West are in a war economy between Wu flu and a lunatic white supremacist admired maybe emboldened by a (now thankfully) former US president; an autocrat with unfettered power, who has accumulated personal wealth and with his mongrel side-kick seems to think they can control 45 million people against their will with in humane force. I do not wish him well.

I have discovered the chai latte and an amazing pizza : CHEESE LOVER…read more I remember one waiter soooooo cool. An institution in dundalk !!!

Great place we came across by chance as we were on the road from Dublin to Belfast. We had been in…read morethe overnight flight and by the time we rolled into town we were ready for a meal. I got my full Irish of the trip and my wife got a breakfast wrap. The full Irish didn't disappoint, I was immediately brought back to the breakfast I learned to love on our last trip. My wife raved about her wrap.

This was the most expensive coffee we drank on our trip, but by no means the tastiest. They need…read moreto lower prices or increase quality. We didn't try the food as we were stopping at The Home Bakery afterwards.

I did a review on this place before and uploaded photos. I also know that my Yelp friend James K…read moremade a contribution but they are all gone. The Yelp gremlins are at mischievous work. Anyway, let's give it one more go, but if this brief review disappears it'll be the last one I'll write. Eight of us rolled in for breakfast. This place is excellent for food and drinks. It's a meat free zone and proves restaurant food can be really delicious without it. I got the eggs nestled in a spicy tomato sauce which has a nice kick and is cooked at a fierce heat. This dish was served with two slices of sourdough bread and butter. I got an excellent flat white coffee and a sparkling water. Among other choices were excellent avocado chosen by a few of our group and some opted for toasted sandwiches. Simple food, great ingredients so what's not to like. It's a delightful place, quite big and usually crammed with customers. The staff are working at full pelt. This might explain why the staff are sometimes brusque those serving us were more perfunctory than palsy. It's 5 green stars all the way.

This is a nice hidden away new little cafe. Really here to facilitate the local companies in the…read morebusiness park but is open to all. So in saying that it has business hours. The have a big area for indoor eating and the what is call a sun lounge. A big room with big windows that lets in loads of light. Great little cafe to have as there is nothing else near in the area. Coffee was good but alias I was there too late in the day for food

This place is open now about two weeks. For us it's very welcome. Up to now the choices here were…read moremostly junk food: KFC, Subway, Burger King who all sell completely rubbish coffee and industrially made over priced, processed junk food. There's pretty good coffee from Starbucks & Costa who each sell over-priced pre packed factory made food, but this new place provides freshly made good food in comfy surroundings and there's darn good Italian coffee too. The key idea here is to pick or build your own sandwich or salad from various breads, greens like lettuce, spinach, kale, rocket, then proteins which I recognise as chicken, pork, salmon; oddly there's cheeses like halloumi and feta listed on the menu under protein when these contain more fat than protein. Then dozens of choices of vegetables from avocado to olives, edamame to pineapple and a selection of fresh dressings. We had mushroom soup (€4) with crusty bread and butter added (95c) which was delicious and an artic wrap (like a soft tortilla) at €5.95 with roast chicken, lettuce, tomato and some Parmesan dressing. Again very tasty indeed. Then a cappuccino and a flat white (about €3 each). The coffees tasted great too. So all in all the bill for two was €16.65. The wifi didn't work and it seems this is a teething problem. The service was friendly too. There's an environmental aspect here as the serviettes are recycled, and soups are served in eco friendly cardboard bowl.

I love the people that work here, I come here with my friend every so often to get a drink and it…read morealways turns out amazing. Its also great for studying, while me myself havent tried it i know it would be great as I have seen people working on their laptops. The atmosphere is also amazing. 10/10

A pretty soulless place really within an out of town shopping centre, mostly but not all down to…read moreCovid & lockdown with folks behind masks. Let's hope this isn't the future. The coffee in paper cups wasn't great; these were poor-tasting cappuccinos, so despite all the expensive equipment, presumably great quality coffee beans, perhaps skilled roasting yet something must be missing for them to churn this awful stuff out. It wasn't worth the money. Worse still, last time we were here they had at least tables and chairs right outside the cafe but they were all stacked up inside by 3pm Saturday. I don't know if the tables and chairs had been outside earlier but it's just not good enough. All in all, it was so poor I doubt I'll go back again, maybe this is also why we were the only two punters in the place mid Saturday afternoon and nobody outside drinking coffee. I noted also that there weren't any bins outside to dispose of the paper cups equally unacceptable.

There's no two ways about it, for me, a review must reflect the price paid. Here we had a 4 course…read moreSunday lunch for €15 each so it's five star. It's not a haute cuisine place, not close nor French bistro style, rather it's more cafe style and big portions, but to call it a greasy spoon would do it a disservice and unfair. There are foodie refinements that should be easy to add at little extra cost. To begin, I had a tasty vegetable soup with brown bread and Irish butter. For mains, it was haddock with a lemon & dill sauce, mashed and garlic potatoes, a roast potato, cabbage, carrots and swede. The haddock was the two things it had to be to be very good; fresh and not overcooked. It had a lemon & dill sauce. For my dessert it was a light bread and butter pudding, with really plump raisins, whipped cream and custard. We each finished off with a darn good chocolate topped cappuccino. My wife had mini vegetable spring rolls with a tasty mini Caesar salad on the side, a turkey & ham main course (with pretty good pepper sauce on the side - gravy was also available) and the same mashed etc potatoes and vegetables, and dessert was lemon meringue pie with fresh cream. The service was ace with every plate and bowl piping hot, so not chance of the food being cold. All of the floor staff were genuinely uber friendly and attentive. The seating was cafe style, and all tables are now screened off from each other. Staff wore face masks and each table was disinfected between guests. There's well-placed disinfection dispensers at the front door and before going to the upstairs toilets. Now let me be picky with no slight intended here, bearing in mind the price and what we had was quite good. The vegetable soup could be better seasoned; we could not determine if the mini spring rolls were bought in and deep fried or made in-house but we felt the former. A sweet chilli dipping sauce would be good. The lemon & dill sauce on the haddock was good but should be reduced to concentrate flavour. The fish skin should have been crisped. Fresh dill and the addition of fresh lemon juice with brave seasoning would make the sauce great and a little lemon and dill will fo a long way. The lemon meringue lemon filling should be a tart lighter mousse, again zinged with fresh lemon juice and grated lemon flesh for concentrated but less sweet flavour. The custard here is that vivid yellow and starchy factory product, either tinned or made from starch based powder, food colour and milk. Either way it's a mainstay and throwback to the desserts of the 1950's and 1960's. The fact it's still going is all you need to know. There's not much can be done to really improve custard without spending money say creme anglaise with vanilla pod - which would really increase the price - but I imagine the locals are more than happy with it, judging by the numbers dining, and we are very occasional, albeit pretentious upstart passers by. Would I go back? Certainly even without the refinements.

We've been here twice now and I think the value for money plus the service and quality of food are…read moreall top notch. It's what we'd call "a greasy spoon" in the USA, which is a good thing, just a certain type of comfort food cooking! The desserts are lovely as well. I'd definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a quick, hearty, reasonably priced meal in busy downtown Dundalk.