74-76 Ballymoney St, Ballymena BT43 6AN There’s no doubt about it, the judges of the Bushmills Bar of the Year Award Scheme are to be congratulated on their discernment and powers of selection. The 1988 Co.Antrim winner, the Grouse Inn, Ballymena, is something a bit special, a pub that commends itself to your taste as […]
93 Main St, Portglenone, Ballymena BT44 8HR Right at the bridge on the bank of the River Bann, THE WILD DUCK INN was, not surprisingly, once called The Bridge Hotel. A hundred years or thereabouts in the past, coaches travelling between Belfast and Derry used it for their overnight stop. Its new name, chosen twenty […]
58 Mill Street Ballymena BT43 5AE Designed by local man Jimmy Fullerton, the new style George Buttery Bar is the outcome of a very thorough renovation and extension done three years ago. St. George on his horse slaying the dragon with his medieval lance, greets you in the form of a large beaten copper mural […]
136 Fenaghy Rd, Ballymena BT42 1EA The poet whose mind reduced everything to a ‘green thought in a green shade’ would have felt very much at home in McKendry’s Bar in Ballymena. Go into this lovely old pub in Broughshane Street and it’s like entering a cool shady garden on a hot summer’s day. Lime […]