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Mourne Seafood Bar
- Price Range:
-
££
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Children:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
1 review for Mourne Seafood Bar
Having lived in Boston for a decade before arriving here 15 years ago, I pretty much gave up any hope of finding decent seafood here, after so many disappointing dining experiences. I'm astonished by the fact that so much good catch here is exported to the Continent.
Somehow, Mourne Seafood Bar passed me by, partially because of its peculiar location. But one evening Madame Oui invited me out with a couple of her workmates.
This former New Englander can attest that the cuisine at the Mourne Seafood Bar is the best you can get this side of the Atlantic!
My meal started with a bowl of clam chowder. NI cooks have some aversion to one of its main ingredients, potatoes! Not MSB. And good and creamy too.
Main course was fish of some type (memory fails). But it was cooked and served to high standard.
Yet another test for this Yank is cheesecake. I'd love to pass some law here that forbids calling it cheesecake if there's no cream cheese in it! Almost always "cheesecake" is nothing more than mousse on a graham pie base thrown in the fridge. Sorry, but cheesecake contains cream cheese (and sour cream if you're being truly authentic), is BAKED in an oven, then set to cool.
So imagine my delight when the lemon cheesecake I ordered at MSB was just perfect. I really didn't think anyone in NI could pull this off, because lemon and cream cheese is even a little trickier. But it was superb.
I had to pay compliments to our waitress, who had some obvious experience. She explained that the owner was inspired by Legal Sea Foods in Boston (yes, my favourite seafood restaurant in the world), and authenticity is a point of theirs.