We all love Mash Direct’s award – winning mashes and vegetable sides and now you can sample them wherever you see the Mash Direct Bus, which, also serves up delicious bangers and mash meals with a choice of yummy Mash Direct vegetables on the side. Mash Direct select older heritage varieties of vegetables for taste rather than appearance. The vegetables are steam cooked to retain nutrients and flavour, gently prepared and packaged on the farm in Comber, County Down. Mash Direct products are 100% gluten free, do not contain any artificial colourings or preservatives and are suitable for microwave and oven heating. The mighty Mash Bus can be found across Northern Ireland at store openings, events and festivals. Don’t worry about not being able to find it, we reckon the colourful double decker can be seen from space! Make sure to check out Mash Direct’s website (www.mashdirect.com) and social media pages to find out more about what the mighty Mash Bus has been up to and where it plans to visit next. You won’t want to miss it!
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Broughgammon Farm to Go
The Cole family do every delicious thing you can think of with tender goat kid meat. From their billy burgers to their kid kebabs and cabritto burrito, they can’t get them out to the hungry hordes quickly enough. Northern Ireland has fallen in love with their goat meat!
However, their diverse home grown produce is not only goat, they also specialise in Free Range Rose Veal, a rare delicacy, and seasonal wild venison burger fit for a king.
Thankfully they have their mobile ovens and hot plates so the can cook from scratch on site. They’re at all the big events but the also have regular pitches at Ballycastle, Causeway Speciality Market in Coleraine and Larne Market.
Where to get them: Various festivals and events around Ireland, from sporting events to continental markets, from the Giants Causeways Birthday to Electric Picnic Broughgammon Farm caters for all shapes and sizes!
Tullylagan Country House Hotel
It calls itself Northern Ireland’s best kept secret, but that secret is out now. The Hotel itself has been named in the Top 5 Hotel’s In Northern Ireland in 2014 & 2015 (LCN Awards) and it boasts not 1 but 2 amazing eateries.
Located in The Georgian-style Main House is the Outstanding Multiple Kitchen Restaurant – Winner of Best Hotel Restaurant in Country Tyrone for an unprecedented 6 years successively in the Irish Restaurant Awards and Winner of The Yes Chef Readers Award for All Ireland in the Inaugural 2015 Awards. A stylish twist that creates a Modern Country House Restaurant the Head Chef believes in only using the best personally sourced ingredients to create simply great food, each dish a visual spectacular for the eye and a flavour combination that simply exploded when you eat it. From Belfast Salmon or stunning scallops as a started to succulent Beef Medallions or Crusted Monkfish as a main, you will never be disappointed, especially with the Chocolate Fondant as dessert and their ‘fourth course’ of beautiful award-winning barista coffees
Locals love Harry’s Bar & Bistro with its great Early Bird Menu and truly hearty Full A la Carte Grill Menu where there is something for everyone (and Kids Eat Free Wednesday to Sunday). It has the real essence of an Irish pub (big log fire as well) but with food well above the average casual dining standard. Handmade burgers sourced from the local butcher to a range of exciting daily specials, Harry’s creates the ultimate in evening dining in Tyrone.
The children’s menu is a cut above. The ketchup is home-made and they have melon balls as a starter. Go! Everything Is Yum Yum
Oysters Restaurant
This Strabane restaurant has been going strong for years now. Customers love the emphasis on local ingredients like the 3 Gold-Star Great Taste Award
Baronscourt Estate venison and fish selections which the owner sources personally direct from the harbour. Game and Fish Specialities are the mainstay at this restaurant with frequent menu updates to reflect seasonality, thereby maintaining an interesting momentum in menu designs. Without fail, it guarantees customers coming back to savour the newest culinary delight.
This multi-award winning restaurant has acquired a reputation for excellence that has culminated in being crowned Northern Ireland Restaurant of the Year in both 2010 and 2014. Traditional dishes have enjoyed imaginative culinary twists capturing the attention of none other than ‘National Geographic’, listing the restaurant as amongst the ‘Top 10 Food & Drink in Ireland’. Tasting menus are a veritable dining experience at this establishment with select wines to compliment.
Their Home Produce range is also available to buy at the restaurant. Their newest flavour combination is a real Taste of Ulster-Turf-Smoked Armagh
Apple Jam. Pick up some on the way home. You’ll be back for more delicious food and another pot before you know it. Oysters is that kind of place.
Glenavon House Hotel
You know a place is serious about good food when one of their specials is a Seared Wild Venison with a Port & Pear Dressing! The Cellar Restaurant at the Glenavon Hotel in Cookstown is one of Mid-Ulster’s best eateries in our opinion.
The chef isn’t shy when it comes to adventurous flavour combinations. He paired the Fivemiletown Goats Cheese Souffle with Spiced Pear & Beetroot and it really worked. We adored the McAtamney’s Medallions of Beef with red onion marmalade, blue cheese croute and a mini bucket of chips. And who wouldn’t love Moneymore leek risotto?
We can’t guarantee that’s what you’ll get when you visit, though. They change the menus with the seasons and decide what dishes to put on depending on what’s available from local producers. We like their style!
Don’t worry if your tastes tend to the more traditional. The Sunday carvery in the Grill is so popular they have two sittings with booking essential.
It is also a very popular destination for Wedding Receptions with dozens of happy couples choosing it for their reception every year. A highly skilled team can look after your every need including Civil Ceremonies and Partnerships.
Watermill Lodge Restaurant
Housed in the only listed, thatched building in the county, the Watermill was opened in 2010 by Pascal Brissaud, formerly of the Manor Park restaurant in Armagh. His French heritage is stamped all over the menu. He calls it “FR-Irish” food.
We adore the duo of donegal lobster and king prawns in a light garlic creamy sauce, pan fried king scallops leek fondu, light chablis beurre blanc, Casserole of beef and pork belly in a red wine sauce, baby vegetables.
Most popular though is the traditional Sunday roast rib of beef. It’s slow cooked for 36 hours and just melts in the mouth. The vegetables and herbs come from his garden on site while the meat is locally sourced. Two courses start at just £19.95.
The wine list is also worth a mention. There are some interesting choices at reasonable prices. Pascal keeps it in a special cave. All that, and stunning views of Lough Erne.
What’s not to like?