The best restaurants serving Irish food in Holywood Demesne North Down South Eastern NI

First time visit for us but daughter and husband had been here before and thought we would like it, and we did. It’s a small venue so would assume that booking a table would be essential. The restaurant does small plates of food as well as a few larger choices. We went for the small plates and had about 5/6 between the four of us. Great variety of tastes amongst the dishes which included a whole plaice, chicken skewers, green beans (so good we had an extra portion) smashed and fried new potatoes. It’s a little noisy but a good atmosphere, our waitress was friendly and chatty and knowledgeable. They apparently have a steak night once a week which we might do on the next visit to NI.

Morelli’s ice cream is nice and creamy which I like... I got the salted caramel which is quite rich and really nice. Very good ice cream!

Friday Night is fish n chips night but so disappointed with this place. Girl at till taking orders has zero personality. Prices are probably the highest in the area if not whole of greater Belfast Area. £13 for a cod supper. But the waiting time for an order is ridiculous. I waited 25 mins for two fish suppers and many of the other customers were making jokes about how long it was taking. The problem is the priority is given to phoned in or online orders. Walk-in customers go to the back of the que. Also, their card machine doesn't work so you have to go outside to the Tesco ATM to pay in cash. When eventually we got our order the food was average. There are other outlets in Holywood. I would recommend any of them rather vthan this place.