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    The Giants Barn

    3.2 (17 reviews)
    InexpensiveCafes
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Steak and Guinness Pie with Champ and Vegetables
    Jennifer P.

    The Giant's Barn is an eatery close to Giant's Causeway. Since it's down the road, we found it to be only lightly busy: until the tour buses showed up! Phew! There is a back room for seating to accommodate, but if you're there when there's a lull, take advantage! After we ate, I was going to go back up to get a bottle of water before we left, but a bus of tourists stormed in, so there was no way I could. It was hard to maneuver around them, too, since they fully blocked the doorways. But I digress.. The food is served cafeteria-style and is remarkably good. I had the Irish Stew with Wheaten Bread (£8.50), and Mom got the Steak and Guinness Pie with Champ and Vegetables (£9.50). The food was piping hot, had great flavor, and was filling! I really loved the hearty stew and the dense bread. Mom didn't much like the crunch/crumbliness of the pastry top of her pie, but otherwise she was a fan. Staff was speedy, friendly, and tables were clean. The Giant's Barn is a great stop to eat, but be aware that it's a frequent stop for tour buses!

    Potato Leak soup (kids portion)
    Linda C.

    Our tour bus stopped in on this friendly cafeteria style cafe with homemade style meals to wholeheartedly fill you up. Reasonable prices, but lacked the temperature needed after a windy day at the Causeway and Rope Bridge. But mighty tastey. The staff are warm and welcoming and gracious. The Guinness pie was lovely and perfect puff pastry just should have been a tad bit hotter. The apple pie was delicious and the potato leek soup Devine.

    Margaret P.

    Cute little cafe on the on the way to Giant's Causeway. They have souvenirs, free wi-fi, and good traditional Irish food - all for a very good price!

    Irish stew
    Elaine P.

    My tour bus stopped here for lunch on our way to Giant's Causeway. It's a cute little family owned restaurant/cafe that serves traditional Irish food at a decent price. I recommend the Beef and Guinness pie (comes wth side of mash potatoes and carrots in gravy) or Irish stew (comes with bread and butter). Service was quick despite the onslaught of customers. Like a cafeteria, you wait down a line, order your food, and pay at the cashier. I was surprised that they had everything ready. They also sell souvenirs and provide free wifi, making it a great rest stop! TIP*- Since it's located in the northern part of Ireland, their currency goes by £ instead of €, so exchange your currency beforehand.

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    Surprisingly good food for what is clearly a tourist trap. Also home to some quite nice photo ops on your way to the Giant's Causeway.

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    Review Highlights - The Giants Barn

    Giant's Causeway is within a three minute drive and the scenery alone is beautiful.

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    The Boathouse Cafe Bar

    The Boathouse Cafe Bar

    5.0(2 reviews)
    43.6 mi

    Brilliant experience at the Boathouse. The menu is extensive, which is very impressive given the…read moresize of the restaurant. Sitting outside on a sunny afternoon, we were treated to an incredible experience from start to finish with an incredible chef! Meal was fantastic and every dish was very much enjoyed!

    I had wanted to visit Gigha to eat the famous halibut there since I moved to Glasgow. The…read moreexperience and meal at The Boathouse exceeded every expectation I had. The warmth of the welcome, the service, the views and the quality of the food is just superb. The Boathouse is just minutes away from the ferry and has a perfect position facing over a small bay with incredible views back over to the peninsula. We arrived mid afternoon and had some ice cold Peroni out on the decking overlooking the white sand beach and turquoise water. We were camping at The Boathouse - which I can highly recommend. There's quite a few pitches doted around and it's an incredibly relaxed atmosphere. Campers mingle with locals who mingle with those who have just come over for the day to eat the amazing seafood on offer. The showers and washrooms are all clean and new, with piping hot water from very early in the morning. There are washing/drying facilities and it's a brilliant half way between wild camping and a formal site - just without any fuss. Everything we needed was here and nothing was too much trouble from anyone we spoke with. If you are planning on visiting, you need to book for dinner as the place was full. Luckily we already had. We started with some oysters and then quickly ordered some more. They were cold, creamy, soft and absolutely delicious. Perfect start. After much deliberation we opted for a lobster mac 'n' cheese to start and the 'Gigha plate'. We has seen the live lobsters being brought in only an hour before and a considerable amount of one was inside the mac 'n cheese. There is no scrimping on the good stuff here. The Gigha plate consisted of deep fried halibut, quails eggs, salmon, smoked halibut, Gigha bread, oyster and the star of the show - the chef's own beetroot smoked halibut. I'd waited a long time to eat the halibut here and the beetroot smoke was just superb. Main course was the monkfish and fish curry and the pan fried halibut. Everything is cooked to perfection and the chefs inventive use of Gighas own produce of potatoes, to beetroot to fish makes it a locally sourced, excellently executed dining experience. We just amount managed to cram in a deliciously light sponge of sticky toffee pudding and peanut butter icecream - and the wonderful pecan tart with red grape ice-cream. Perfect to end to a great meal. With around 30 whiskeys to choose from I went for a Talisker to round the meal off and take a coffee outside and admire the view until bed. Wherever you are, get your map out, work out how to get there and go eat some fish and check out that view. It's worth every mile.

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    The Nook

    The Nook

    3.9(58 reviews)
    0.5 mi
    ££

    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.

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    The Giants Barn - cafes - Updated May 2026

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