I was sitting outside this pub place and pondering lunch, as I often do. I can ponder lunch just…read moreafter breakfast too. Even sitting outside I didn't think of it as a dine - in venue. Then I noticed a poster in the window saying toastie, or wrap or sandwich with soup or tea and coffee. All for the princely sum of £5.95. Still I hesitated. It was 2pm so I rang Sugar Supper to check if they were still serving only to get a voicemail contraption. Oh no so I persuaded myself that this place couldn't be that bad. Caution abandoned we were met by a super friendly waitress. In fact all the staff were charming and polite. The waitress announced pick any filling you like we have most things. She was right as in a long list the only item she didn't have was avocado and I got a good reason why not. My vegetable soup was ace as was my prawn and sun dried tomato sandwich. The sandwich filling wasn't as generous as I'd do for myself but I was well fed but one star down from me. I do like a full sandwich. My wife too had soup with chicken & bacon on brown. She got coleslaw on the side so one star back up for that. She washed hers down with a soft drink and I had a sparking water. It was a delightful cosy way to spend a late lunch too. And all my initial doubts are vanquished.

I visited this restaurant as a recommendation from a local while visiting Newry for meetings. I…read morereally wanted to try traditional Irish fare so I was a little disappointed when I saw nachos on the menu but I decided to give it a try anyways. They have a lot of different menu items so I decided to ask the server for local food items. She advised that the mussels, calamari, haddock and ribs were local so we opted for a large bowl of mussels and regular size plates of haddock and ribs. They had a lot of interesting choices from all around the world but I like to taste the local ingredients when in traveling. We got the mussels in the white wine cream sauce and I was very happy with that choice because they were so fresh and almost sweet. My dinner companion was not happy that this mussel was tiny. It didn't bother me. The Haddock boujons were perfectly cooked and crispy. They came on top of a little mashed potatoes with mushy peas. For the final plate we got the ribs. They were heavenly, I almost want to say the best I've ever had. The reason. Why is because the meat was tender like butter. The flavor was delicious but it wasn't heavy or heavily smoked like the libs in the USA. They were like air. Not sure if that makes sense but it's the best way I can describe it. For dessert we got the Bailey's cheesecake. It was so smooth that it was like a mousse. Soooo good. The house wine was an insanely good Sauvignon Blanc. The service was great. They were very attendant. The ambience is casual which I liked. The only negative mark o can give is that the beer on draught is German. I was dying for a pint if Irish beer and had to settle for a bottle. I would recommend this restaurant. Everything we had was good

On a cold and rainy night a green Thai curry is adds just the right amount of heat. Add a glass of…read moreRioja and you will be warm in no time. This is my second time here and I can say that while visiting this area I would come back again. Their menu is interesting and varied enough to keep you coming back for more and their full bar and friendly service seals the deal.

This is for their steakhouse. We had made a reservation for six and we sure had a great night's…read morecraic here. We joked a bit about the steep stair climb up to dine; the welcome was warm and the menus awaited us. It was two courses on their early-bird menu (£19.95) and early dining suits us. We also dine around and chose here as a new place to try out. The first challenge we faced was could we make it main and dessert rather than starter/main - we could - so the next challenge was choosing dessert as most of us wanted every dessert on the slate. We got to try some of their wheaten bread and it tasted superb. I think they sell the loaves. Two of us opted for vegetarian pasta which had great taste, but the spinach marred my dish; I found it chewed down into a ball and became an unpleasant eat. Might be worth swapping to basil. If I had the dish again I'd leave it off. Most of the others opted for their club sandwich main topped with fried egg and one had fish & chips: all declared their food very good. Why is it a club sandwich well it's Chicken and Lettuce Under Bacon. Desserts were delicious; the Eton Mess was the favourite choice. I had the creme brulee instead and I enjoyed it immensely, but the shortbread on the side wasn't my taste. I like it buttery, melting. My guess is it's not made with butter. The truth of it is that almost everything here is so very good that you become critical of the parts that aren't just as top notch. We finished with cappuccino and lattes and one tea but again I had a great cappuccino on arrival that carried me through to departure. We had arrived early and were delighted to see that the restaurant picked up and the atmosphere was great; despite becoming real busy with happy diners the wait staff remained completely attentive to our needs. I do hope we return soon, especially as there's another main I want to try.

Very nice place if you want to have a traditional irish meal where ever other restaurant has…read moreturned into a fast food etc this place has become the best to place to eat real food. Only bad thing i could say is the workers are a bit suttee.

their curry half n half's and prawn crackers are MIGHTY XX great service guys well doneread more

It's been a while since we've been to here yet it never fails to impress us every time in terms of…read moregreat quality fresh fare, friendly service and fair pricing. This time, once again, our visit was for breakfast before going off to experience the European festival at Slieve Gullion forest park dominated by Polish & Hungarian folk who have made our area their home, their places of work and their and their kids futures and they are very welcome (I wonder if we'll have European festivals up to 2021?!). We both opted for cappuccino with quality sausage, fluffy scrambled egg breakfasts and plump fresh soda bread. Everything about this place is quality but there's one irritation albeit minor but high in the frustration scale; the knives won't easily cut through the soda bread so next time I will ask for steak knives, which does sound a tad silly but it will make life easier. Talk about first world problems. Oh and when we got to the European event we found we could have enjoyed Polish and Hungarian fare, still more first world problems.

Delicious!!!!!!! I love the halloumi and tomato baguette,…read moremmmmmmm tasty! I have also tried the salmon salad and various soups depending on what's on offer. I find this place a refreshing change from the usual greasy spoon eateries in Newry. A real different eating experience for the town, I love it! The coffee is good here too, give it a try you won't regret it. Their speciality is French onion soup with a cheese crouton, I haven't tried it but it smells fantastic

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?

Eight of us rolled in for dinner on a last minute, unplanned visit, and it has been a long while…read moresince we've been. The menu choices hadn't changed very much but the prices have sure increased by 20% 30% in most cases and I'm cynical enough to think that it's not wholly justifiable. I do understand some costs have risen but suspect some price gouging too. We had a range of food: beef and chicken burgers, steaks and a vegetarian. Now pasta and vegetables have not risen 30%. Nor have spuds. The food was excellent, with one annoying exception - the baked Alaska. It was far too granular sugar loaded, the ice cream was mean and poor tasting, there was very little raspberry coulis, the sponge wasn't spongy and still worse it had frozen sliced strawberries within. Clearly the dessert was in the freezer to go to the hot oven in its iron skillet and it woulda worked but for the science. Baked Alaska works as the meringue insulates the ice cream to keep it frozen while the outside browns. So the frozen sliced strawberries benefit from the insulation and also stay frozen. Just stop putting strawberries into a dessert to be pre frozen and add to the dessert post cooking. I won't knock a star for this as it's easily remedied. The service was tip top and the servers were real attentive. One of the attractions of places like this was that you got a bargain so you also went more often but those days are gone and now with prices coming much closer to the top notch places like Fitzpatricks while the food offerings aren't commensurately better just more money it's more likely that folks will go there so price gouging can be counter productive.

A group of us came here for a pre-booked meal one Saturday…read more One server came and took our drinks, followed soon after by another to take the food. This seemed efficient and fairly up-to-speed. Everything was going ok until the food started to arrive out. Cutlery was thrown in the middle of our very long table in a pile. They must have been thinking "help yourselves, because you're not worth us giving table service?". I'd trust this wouldn't happen with tables of 4 or 2, so if you're a larger group, forget about expecting the basics of table service. Grab them yourselves. Food arrived out and very few of us were wowed. I had seafood tagliatelle which consisted of tiny chunks of salmon, a few prawns and 2 crab claws - over-drowned in a thick, sickening creamy sauce. That's what ruined it for me. At just shy of £16 I would have been expecting a)everything to be perfectly cooked in the dish and rationed accordingly, and b) to at least have mussels and maybe even a few clams or a substitute seafood. A friend remarked that his salt & chilli squid was like something from Iceland and the accompanying sauce was horrible. Dessert time, and the menu came framed in an oversized box frame?! Don't get it. A lot of ordered desserts and/or drinks. Again, spoons fired in the middle of the table. They were nice. Drinks never arrived for a lot of us, I reordered mine and then a second one was about to come out (I told the waiter that I wasn't ordering a second, I just never got the first.) They tried to charge for both on the bill which says to me the staff aren't communicating effectively and aren't amending the bills correctly. Overall we were unimpressed and have definitely ruled out going back for any other staff night out we might have. Christmas isn't too far away!

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.

It's all change again but thankfully the coffee is ace - really top notch, shade grown and…read moreperfectly roasted. Funny enough while we have the range from latte to macchiato, cappuccino through flat white etc Gibraltar is nowhere to be found, not as much as the bespoke glass. The staff remain as cheerful as ever, despite the fact that their business must be suffering desperately, and their reasonable prices remain just the same. It's takeaway only here once more with another lockdown underway but the politicos won't call it a lockdown. These folks still get paid, enjoy self nominated pay rises (imagine being able to decide on your own pay increases and who have recently awarded their support staff (actually family members in many cases)) a 40% pay (and related pension) hike. Maya like so many businesses have lots of stuff at a counter near the door to sanitise and here's the thing - the guy making the coffee can do so, I can go in, stand 3/4 feet from him and hand him cash to pay and take a coffee and change from him. But if he had this machine in his kitchen I couldn't go in for a free coffee in his home. I could work with him all day but I couldn't sit for a beer with him in a local bar for half an hour but we could meet in the local church for an hours service. So go figure. So do remember how important it is to help small independents especially in these strange times when the only certainties are death, taxes and money grabbing, dishonest politicians.

TOP TOP TOP! Best coffee in the whole damn town by a…read morelooooong country mile, great service, fantastic food and great atmosphere. I am a die hard fan of the BURRITO, and having travelled extensively over the world I gotta say the folks at MAYA do the best goddamn one anywhere. Eat here.