The Knowhere Guide

Eating and Drinking in Bangor, Down*

Bangor, Down Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• i could pull better things out of my arse
• pauls chippie
• Has to be Piccola's, but avoid like the plague at 1:30am on a Saturday night!!
• Is there really a decent restaurant or take away in this one horse town.
• On a saturday night after a drinking session it is a absoulute must to go to COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN! If you do decide to go, you have to get a chicken chip kebab with chicken sauce! It is to die for!!!
• PICALOOS PIZZAS RULE
• Bangor fish company
• kfc
• drop everything, get round to the pitstop for a FULL HOUSE SODA or ROLL, MOST FUCKING EXCELLENT
• maccy ds is abouut the fines quality of food in thi shithole town and off course trhere is thatfit supervisor bird
• the penguin king street
• Jenny Watts is a good place to go for a pub lunch - the chicken gougons are yummy - but steer clear from the burgers they are nasty! xo
• nibble in abbey. stevie makes the best burgers in the world. i have seen smaller cows. give him a try now!!
• recommend papa joes, piccolo, marerosa, fish company (excellent Pastie Burger)
• Don't trust those who produce food products in Bangor- I've heard nasty stories....... Especially BK!
• Too many to mention. Try the Cafe Brazillia on the seafront for a good coffee!
• Pizza KIng kicks ass
• cheesy garlic bread pizza fom piccolos
• crisp n dry and pauls not bad
• Burger King Is not full of Miserable wankers. I worked there and was never miserable apart from when I found out I was going to be working till 3 0'clock and I had school next day and was very tired. So have a heart people in BK are overworked thanks to the slavedriver supervisors.
• peter in the Hong Kong palace is always a laugh
• Bangor Fish Company, Saturday Nite, about 1 ish, Pastie Burger, better that a knuckle shuffle round the back of Wolsey's from the girl you hope your mates never see u with, I WAS DRUNK HONEST
• Calypso is often a drunken alternative to Piccolas on a Saturday night but beware, many steeks (falling out of Windsor after one too many vodka+red bulls) and the foreigners that work there will put anything you ask for on your chips.....
• Subway - very nice indeed! Burger King - disgusting as ever! Papa Joes - nice food, too much chicken though! McMillens - nice. The Ganges - lovely curries! Bryansburn - nice. Phoenix Chinese - very nice! Pizza Hut - shite. And I used to work there, so i should know!
• Allens bar and restaurant - the bar staff ie. Paula, Scott, Rusty etc. will put you off your meal before even ordering! Paula looks like a rat!
• Pizza king top "joint" (know what I mean !!)
• Crisp and Dry at the top of High Street.....you'll never get finer Chicken Goujons or Cheesy chips.
• In Allens bar & restaurant, you'll get a really nice meal at a really nice price! The food is immense!!! Also the live band entertainment is good for slagging! Great night out !!!!!!!!
• Country Fried Chicken will give u food poision
• KFC is always empty.
• McKinney the resident pie and the only man with a natural afro
• Tony's Tuck Shop - total rip off
• The red dragon doesn't do too badly for slanty eyed food.
• Piccola's Pizzeria (everyone still calls it 'Piccolo's') for the best pizza in the world (and it's right outside all the pubs and clubs McDonalds/KFC(x2) Numerous Chippies
• Piccola's Pizzeria is the best in Ulster.
• Avant Garde Cafe Bar - Great Food, great coffee, great service, great decor - definitely THE GREATEST
• Mickey D's
• Wolseys - Cheap and cheerful pub grub.
• Loads of restaurants, take-aways to choose from. Shanks at Blackwood Golf Centre has got 3 Michelin stars...the Steamer is a bar and restaurant, truly excellent food and atmosphere, try it...
• Billy Bunter's has closed - I always thought Paul's was the best anyway
• Bunters is the best chippie. On the Clandeboye Road. Burger King are miserable sods. Use Pauls for late night chips. Mauds ice cream (High Street ) is a must for Pooh Bear ice cream. Knuttles is a good restaurant; it's on Greys Hill.

Pubs

• there all shite,bangor=full of wee dicks wanntin 2 be somthin,up the north belfast UFF
• Has to be Wolseys, started going back after 10 years, fucking magic
• windsor
• OK, I'll make it very simple for you. The Pub Quiz on a Monday in Wolseys is the best damn pub quiz there has ever been, without any shadow of a doubt. They play great (real) music. The 2 guys who compere it (Kayso & Craig) are very funny and all-in-all it's the perfect way to start your drinking week. If you are lucky enough to win you even get a crate of beer for your trouble, and everyone is guaranteed a prize of some description. Word of warning though, don't ever take the free beer they offer during the night as it will give you the shits! Honestly I can't recommend it enough. Me and my mates go there nearly every Monday, and if we miss even a single week we get withdrawal symptoms! Also check out the always sick team names that people use. They even give a prize to the best one!
• Wolseys is kicking every other bar in Bangor's ass at the moment. The place is busy nearly every night, with some great entertainment on offer. Very relaxed atmosphere as well.
• The nice friendly pubs where everybody just wants to know your name and your goddamn business.
• bouncers are all wankers
• Wolseys is the capital of publand in Northern Ireland. No-seriously. But please teach those new young women that serve behind the bar how to do it properly. Guinness takes at least 5mins to settle, not 2.5 seconds. And more cleaveage please while we wait. Those new pictures on the wall are fab though.
• Recently went into Wolseys for the first time in ten years, and there was the same people i used to knock about with still propping up the bar
• Fealtys is a legend.no fuss no bravado no pretentions,superb,a thinking man's pub. Putting grass in the bar for euro 2000 was a real masterstroke.The last proper pub left in Bangor,and it dosen't use gorillas at weekends,no need the staff are well switched on.
• Legends serves lovely cocktails
• As far as im concerned, if she is in a bar, shes 18, that god for Wolseys, keep up the good work. Love them fresh
• any decent bench in Ward Park
• Wolsey's - had to change my opinion of this place. Before I moved to England I hated the place but 12 years on it's not too bad - possibly the only place where you don't feel the entire clientele could be your children! Gives people from "The Barn" (remember that one kids??) somewhere to spot a few familiar faces and "get one together" (if you know what I mean!) for old times sake.
• If you are looking for a good pub in Bangor, why bother? they are all shite. they are all just places for steeks and under age girls to hang out.
• Bar Blue at Springhill!
• Club Maund offers a more chilled out pub session every friday night to wet your lips for the build up to the weekend. P.S We don't care which lips you want to wet.
• Fealtys is where you can have a wasted backgammon showdown with pub regular and game master Colin.
• stables groomsport quality
• make sure u go to wolseys where the dirty dj will try 2 catch young children doing stuff to each other anyone who has been to the web site knows what i mean
• The Bets Club - Oh Yes, the best
• Wolseys downstairs rules!! Good atmosphere, no trouble, good pint, sofas round the fire if you're lucky, nice people. Brilliant night out. No one gives a toss.
• Right, a quick note about the Viscount up at Springhill. Granted, it doesn`t get the biggest crowd, but come in on a tuesday night, u get a happy hour, and u get a great little quiz. and there`s a good happy hour monday to wednesday, 8 til 9 and on a sunday evening too during the live football. Plus the food is really good for lunch. oh, and i`m not getting paid to write this. And may i just say that i think bangor is better than belfast cos basically, everyone is just so much more desperate
• Fealty's. The only real pub left in Bangor, brave enough to have real decor and not some keek bought from Pubz-R-Us. Real sawdust, turf, dogcrap from time-to-time on the floor and real characters. Far too real for underage/trendy self-abusers. Go there and get mortal.
• Fealtys? Dont make me laugh - that fucking hole should be knocked down
• The Viscount at Springhill - empty like a ghost town!
• live it large in calicos (not!!!)
• Have you be to Cafe Cake hole recently, shit, you dont even need pubic hair to get in any more, where's my rain mac?
• Wolseys downstairs, good atmosphere, rarely any trouble, good mix of people, lively on a weekend. R&C, not bad, cool little alcoves for sneaky smokes! Cafe Ceol, pretentious but some nice ladies frequent it, same goes for Bar15. Calicos also has a good selsection of minky, but as is well-documented, the bouncers are arseholes.
• Wolseys, Fealtys, McElhills, Calicos maybe. Otherwise, get ta fok!
• As regulars we think WOLSEYS is the best! Contrary to popular belief, on entering you won't be overcome by clouds of marijauna smoke coming from the crouds of dreadlocked hippies. Most of the bouncers are great, sometimes joining in on the dancefloor! Besides, they aren't just there to drool over the "fresh faced young ladies" like a few other places (but not mentioning any names). Wolseys is one of the only places left that hasn't been taken over by steeks, tarts in knee high boots, posers (ie people with their head up their own ass) or junior school students. It's a good laugh and there's usually a good enough crowd without it being too packed. People only slag it off cause they can't get in!
• I would strongly recomend the idea of a pint or two in the delightful Jenny Watts.However you might want to break something before you leave to avoid further lining the pockets of Bill Wolsey.I'll bet I've paid at least one of his mortgages.
• If you are between fifteen and seventeen years old and you are having trouble getting in to places you should give Allens a try the bouncers (sorry doormen) will let you in under strict instruction from management (sorry the weasel by the name of RUSTY) the place usually has to send the band home as their aren't enough customers in the place! So if you fall into that age range why don't you give it a go come on face it - they need the support! Don't worry about getting into trouble cause the actual owner is usually blinded with alcoholic beverages!
• Jamacia Inn is nice enough though it is true about the rugbys, can get a 'bit' packed. Winsdor shitte hole don't go near it unless you enjoy looking at people who could be your children. Wolseys nice enough place but can get cramped. Ava very nice place with massive TV thingy, great for watching things.
• Machines - If standing in pubs all night, Gavin, playing Fruit Machines (and I don't mean Pogo Brown!) is your thing then here is your definitive list of machines in good Bangor pubs (28/03/2000): Wolseys: Psycho Cash Beast, Bucanneer, Big Bucks, Las Vegas Strip Cafe Ceol: Psycho Cash Beast, Red Alert Ormeau Arms: Each Way Nudge The Windsor: Are you taking the pi*s? The Crown: Camelot, Boulderdash
• The windsor is a nice pub, don't give a fuck what other people have to say.
• Boom Booms is for stuck up B*@tards!! and the most shit place in Banger (coming from an underage person!) P.S I have never had any probs gettin in!!! Scott the manager dude is also a stuck up git who I'd like to see improving the place a bit! Even the staff tell their mates not to go on friday nights cause its a waste of money!
• Calicos is good apart from the wanker bouncers
• If you are looking for a cracking nite out - club Maund is the answer! it is fucking brilliant. Any fucking around though you will be swiftly dealt with by the bouncers (BIG Gaz and Jim) with a "monkey wrench".
• The usual Club Maund on the Donaghadee Road
• none suitable for over 19s; try Crawfordsburn or golf clubs
• Wolsey's is O.K. For BGS teachers, Ledgend's Wendesday night.
• Jenny Watts for that old skool feel
• Please, gorgeous men come to Calico Jack's on Saturday nights. Bangor's single female population is suffering a decent man drought. This unofficial single's bar is lacking good looking, 'old enough to legally be in there' lads. Dance to great songs like "Delicious" by T-Spoon (don't you love it!) Unfortunately we need more men in there who it applies to. See you all soon!
• All pubs in Bangor are crap, flawed by the fact that you will probably have a combined age greater than everyone else, staff included, and you have to be ever allert to the threat of alcohol fuelled violence. Once, trying to get into Wolsies, i was asked for a passport, the day I show a passport to get into a pub I will want to get it stamped and go through customs. Try confusing doormen by giving them I.D. which states your actuall age, if they then ask how old you are say "17". This they are not prepared for, usually after some confusion you get in after a gruff "Well you look 21 anyway". Also try getting served in the Jamaica Inn with a '17 Today' badge on, I am convinced it would work.
• Wolsey's good for the hippies on a Friday night Windsor for the young crowd Cafe Ceol for the trendy young twentysomethings - ie pretentious arses Donnegans for the thirtysomethings Jamaica Inn for the rugby players and all BGS pupils Jenny Watts for BGS teachers at lunch
• Don't go to Cafe Ceol or the Boom Boom Room as it is full of pretentious arses. Jamaica Inn ( otherwise known as the creche )- where the rugbys hang out.
• WELL, AS THE OWNER OF THE WINDSOR I AM NOT A LITTLE UPSET. IN FACT AS THEY SAY IN BANGOR GRAMMAR: "I'M JOLLY WELL GOING TO TELL PATER". I'M A HANDS-ON TYPE OF BLOKE. THAT MEANS I DON'T MIND CLEANING UP THE SICK, THUS INSPIRING MY STAFF NOT TO FEAR VENTURING UP TO THEIR ELBOW AROUND THE U-BEND. I THINK MY STAFF(MOST OF THEM, ANYWAY) ARE A SPIFFING BUNCH, BUT AS ONE OR MORE OF YOUR CONTRIBUTORS THINK DIFFERENTLY I'D LIKE TO FIND WHICH ONES ARE BEASTLY SO THAT THEY CAN RECEIVE A FUCKING GOOD WALLOPING. INFORMATION LEADING TO SAID WALLOP WILL ENTITLE ONE TO A PINT OF PREMIUM LAGER AND A CHEESEY CHIP.
• The BETS Club on Queen's Parade - working mens club, excellent atmosphere, pints are £1.30, shorts £1.10 and none of your shitty English measures here, you get 35mls in each measure!
• The AVA- cheap pints and good beer. The Rose and Chandler- More expensive, nice Pub. Wolseys- Smelly but good music Cafe Ceol- Trendy and expensive, poor bar staff. Calico Jacks- Big and full of steeks. and many more!
• Like I said before, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GO TO THE WINDSOR. Also avoid Calico Jacks (at the side of the Marine Court Hotel), the doormen have severe attitude problems, they let too many people in and it takes ages to get a drink. To add insult to injury, the music's always crap and they even have the nerve to charge you to get in...
• Still open to 1am. Calico Jacks, Penny Whistle, Jenny Watts is nice and old (and stuff) so is Donegans. The Ormeau arms has a live folk night on Fridays. Bohrans and fiddles and things.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• cafe miliano's
• The cafe in Bloomfields has turned into a complete hole, not that Bewleys was much better. And how can one group of twenty teenagers spend an hour+ hanging round one large coke and with 4 cigarettes. At least the girlies give you something to look at
• Castle arms
• Avoid all of them and go to the pub instead!
• Dalings Deli is a great place to get a bite to eat and a coffee, on Grays hill.
• Defintely Cafe Ceol the only good thing about the boom boom rooms
• Cafe Laurant, the one in the flagship is shite, mauds at the marina, ramsteins, the wee purple cafe, the penguin, the bungee jump
• ciggy and a coffee has to be the Penguin
• Coffee shop staff in general have forgotten to smile, Flagship coffee shop is a dirty hole, bloomfields is staffed by the some of the dumbest people god ever put on the planet, usually always get a seat in the penguin upstairs.
• Cafe B has to be the best for a cuppa
• Good fry in the Penguin, not as good as it used to be, but OK. Eat cheap in the Diner in Dufferin Avenue.
• Windjammer Cafe at Pickie - got done for food poisoning last year.
• Green bike is a trendu spot to be seen
• Gallery 34, it's sound.
• Gallery 34, Penguin, Cafe Brasilia, little else.
• Cafe Brazilia (also known as "Cafe B") is the finest cafe in town
• Bee-Gees Restaurant for the meals-£1.00 special And £1.45 special!
• Avant Garde Cafe Bar - Great Food, great coffee, great service, great decor - definitely THE GREATEST
• D d's

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