Mourne’s Seafood Restaurant

On our first night in Belfast, we were taken to Mourne’s Seafood Restaurant for dinner. Later in the trip, we began to realize that on the first night in a new town or city, we would be taken out to dinner by the tour company. Some of the members of the group discussed it for a bit and came to the conclusion that, because it was the first night in town, we didn’t know where the pubs were as we hadn’t really had a chance to look around. If we had more than one night in a city, the remainder of the nights were our responsibility to find a place to eat. Usually, there were some choices of restaurants and pubs in the area of the hotels that we stayed in.

When we arrived at Mourne’s, we were taken upstairs to a private room where we had a dedicated staff of waiters and waitresses and cooks to look after us. The cooks also did some of the meals for the room downstairs but we were their priority.

The menu gave us an excellent range of choices of food, both seafood and non-seafood. I can’t remember exactly what I had, but I think that I tried their chowder. I wasn’t feeling the best at that time and needed to have something to eat that I knew wouldn’t upset my stomach. It was served with bread and gave me exactly what I needed.

For my main course, I had the ribeye steak as I didn’t want to take the chance of having deep-fried fish. I had it earlier in the week and I can only tolerate it in small amounts. I was questioned about it, but that is what I felt that do me the best good. It was done almost to perfection and I enjoyed every bite of it.

I finished the meal with apple and rhubarb crumble with ice cream. It was very filling, almost too much so. But it was good. I think that everyone enjoyed their meal.

As we headed back to the hotel, plans were made for the evening. My plan every night was to complete the blog entry, and most nights, relax and try to go to bed by 10 p.m. It doesn’t always work, though.

All in all, I can say that Mourne’s Seafood Restaurant has excellent food and is worth the trip to have some when you are in Ireland. I think that almost everyone on our tour enjoyed the food as well.

By the way, I didn't take my camera with me that evening, so I had to download pictures from the advertisement for the restaurant.