Food and Drink
Ards and North Down is well established as a leading food region where culinary innovation thrives.
Ours are the lands and seas that serve us well
Savour the tastes of our region’s many award-winning restaurants and artisan food shops. Menus feature the finest local fayre. Drop into a local bar to enjoy the warmest of welcomes and a ‘wee dram’ of local ale, gin or whiskey.
This is a place with a famed agricultural and nautical heritage which is home to world class ingredients. Comber Earlies PGI status potatoes, Portavogie prawns, Strangford Lough oysters and County Down grass fed beef are just a few examples of the fine produce that is unique to this place.
Ours is a place to meet the locals and savour great flavours
Weekly markets are a tradition of this place, and a fixture in Newtownards and Bangor for almost a century. They showcase Strangford Lough seafood, local vegetables, plants, homewares and traditional breads that are baked as you wait. Each month at Comber Farmers’ Market and Portaferry village market you can sample the wares and learn from artisan producers some tricks of their trade.
Ours is homemade hospitality and joy
Truly immerse yourself in this place. Book a tour to sample local produce, learn the art of baking local breads or see how fine gins and whiskeys are produced at Echlinville and Copeland distilleries.
