23 Mill St, Cushendall, Ballymena BT44 0RR There are some pubs that you simply fall in love with right away, usually little old places that seem to have defied or escaped the passage of time. McCollam’s is just such a bar, a corner in Cushendall that seems to contain all the history of the village, […]

7 Bridge St, Cushendall, Ballymena BT44 0RP There’s a story for nearly everything in the most famous Victorian bar on the Antrim coast, The Central in Cushendall. An example is the tale of the Cushendall man who recently was on holiday in Germany, and quite by chance was leafing through a glossy German magazine. He […]

31-33 Lower Cross St, Larne BT40 1JW [Photo: Chekkers Wine Bar, Larne.] It’s a safe bet that if you were sent out to find the oldest pub in Larne, you’d never for a moment believe that Chekker’s Wine Bar would even be in the running. Surely this beautifully furnished, elegant wine bar, with its shining […]

1 High St, Carnlough, Ballymena BT44 0EP It had to be an exceptional bar to get me to make a special journey to Carnlough to see it. I thought I had completed my pub odyssey of the north but then I noticed in a local Sunday Paper that THE WATERFALL was awarded Bushmills bar of […]