This highly selective, full colour guide will take you to the very best of Irish hospitality, north and south. The perfect digital detox.
Down - Restaurants
Found 34 matches, showing 1 - 10 below.
This famous old 19th century coaching inn fell into great hands when Ronan and Jennie Sweeney took it over in 2004.
With extensive experience in the hospitality industry behind them, they were determined to restore Balloo’s reputation as one of ...
more...
more...
Established in 1752, this former coaching inn is owned by the Patterson family - brothers William, Richard and Derek Patterson - who have built up a national reputation for hospitality and good food, especially seafood. Somehow they manage to run sever ...
more...
more...
Ronan and Jennie Sweeney (Balloo House, The Parson’s Nose) have done it again, sprinkling their magic over this stylish reinvention of the former Lisbarnett House in Lisbane village.
Since purchasing the run down pub in 2012 they have invested o ...
more...
more...
Formerly named after its original owner, The Marquis of Downshire, Ronan and Jennie Sweeney's charming 18th century pub is a sister establishment to that great dining pub, Balloo House in Killinchy (GCGuides 2009 Pub of the Year) and its stylish younge ...
more...
more...
Formerly the official palace for the Bishops of Down, Hastings Hotels’ flagship property in Holywood is the region's premier hotel and a fine example of 19th-century Scottish Baronial architecture, with plasterwork ceilings, stained glass windows ...
more...
more...
The seafront tends to claim the attention of visitors to this small resort town as its shore road, which is part of a scenic lough and mountain drive (A2), commands impressive views over Carlingford Lough. But it is well worth looking beyond the seafro ...
more...
more...
Hidden away in rolling County Down countryside just outside Downpatrick, the site of this 18th century flour mill is very atmospheric: looking out onto ruined stone outbuildings, it is almost like being in a medieval castle courtyard.
The Mill would b ...
more...
more...
This 18th-century waterfront terrace presents a neat, traditional exterior overlooking the lough towards the attractive village of Strangford, and the National Trust property, Castleward.
The inn, which is now a sister property to Belfast's premier ho ...
more...
more...
Behind a classic Georgian frontage on the main street of one of Northern Ireland's prettiest traditional villages lies a thoroughly modern - and surprisingly large - restaurant.
A first restaurant for returning natives, the renowned chef Chris McGowan ...
more...
more...
In recent years Michael and Alison Crothers have developed this attractive, welcoming place in Dundrum from a pub with bar food and a restaurant, to its present position as a restaurant with bar – and it is one of the most popular destinations in ...
more...
more...












