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Bending Sound Records
Bending Sound Records opened on Record Store Day in 2017, filling a gap left by…
CultureSeacourt Print Workshop
Seacourt Print Workshop was founded in 1981 by Margaret Arthur and Jean Duncan,…
TableNo.14 at The Georgian House
No.14 at The Georgian House occupies an early Georgian townhouse on Comber's…
SnugMcBrides on the Square
McBrides on the Square has traded from the same corner of Comber's Square since…
LarderAlbert Boal Quality Butchers
Albert Boal Quality Butchers trades from a unit in the Stonegate Centre off…
RestRayanne House
Rayanne House occupies a red-brick villa dating to 1883 at 60 Demesne Road in…
Grounds
Baylands Coffee Co
Bangor, NIR
An independent coffee shop on Groomsport Road in Ballyholme, a short walk from Ballyholme Beach. It…
Cargo Coffee
Bangor, NIR
Cargo Coffee runs from a fleet of repurposed shipping containers on Belfast Road, operating what…
Maxemoo Farmyard Café
Millisle, NIR
Maxemoo occupies a shopfront at 33 Main Street in Millisle, trading as Maxemoo Ltd and built around…
The Uncommon Garden Company
Newtownards, NIR
Small independent nursery and garden business on Killyleagh Road outside Newtownards, selling…
Table
Bridewell Coffee
Donaghadee, NIR
Bridewell Coffee occupies a High Street unit in Donaghadee, serving coffee from rotating guest…
Coan Coffee
Kircubbin, NIR
Coan occupies a small shopfront on Kircubbin's Main Street, looking directly across Strangford…
Coffee Yard
Holywood, NIR
Coffee Yard has traded from 102-104 High Street in Holywood since opening in December 2005, pairing…
Cottage Kitchen Groomsport
Groomsport, NIR
Cottage Kitchen is a small café on Groomsport's Main Street serving cooked breakfasts and lunches…
Fontana
Holywood, NIR
Fontana occupies a first-floor room above a kitchenware shop on Holywood's High Street, reached by…
Home Sweet Home
Donaghadee, NIR
Home Sweet Home occupies a cottage-styled shop on Donaghadee's High Street, combining a coffee…
Industrial Brew
Bangor, NIR
Industrial Brew is a family-run coffee shop on the Balloo industrial estate in Bangor, opposite the…
No.14 at The Georgian House
Comber, NIR
No.14 at The Georgian House occupies an early Georgian townhouse on Comber's Square, a building…
Noble
Holywood, NIR
Noble is Pearson Morris and Saul McConnell's restaurant on Church Road in Holywood — two Deanes…
OUSH Groomsport
Groomsport, NIR
OUSH opened its single cafe in 2025 inside a greenhouse at 5 Lower Balloo Road, Groomsport, in…
Rainey's Traditional Fish & Chips
Donaghadee, NIR
Rainey's Traditional Fish & Chips operates as a takeaway on High Street in Donaghadee, serving the…
Regency Coffee House
Newtownards, NIR
Regency Coffee House trades from Regent Street in Newtownards town centre, run by a family with a…
Larder
Albert Boal Quality Butchers
Newtownards, NIR
Albert Boal Quality Butchers trades from a unit in the Stonegate Centre off Movilla Road in…
Angus Farm Shop
Greyabbey, NIR
Noel Angus runs this butcher's shop from behind the yellow half-door on Greyabbey's Main Street,…
Indie Füde
Comber, NIR
Indie Füde began as Johnny McDowell and Laura Bradley's online showcase for small Irish food…
Knead Bakery
Newtownards, NIR
Family-run artisan bakery on Newtownards High Street run by baker Graeme Niblock, whose family has…
Mawhinney's Family Butchers
Newtownards, NIR
Mawhinney's occupies a long-established butcher's premises at 110-114 Frances Street in Newtownards…
McKee's Country Store & Farm Shop
Newtownards, NIR
McKee's is a farm shop in the fullest sense — on the McKee family's own working farm outside…
McKeowns Fish & Poultry
Bangor, NIR
McKeowns Fish & Poultry has traded from the same High Street premises in Bangor since 1891, making…
Smör Bakery
Comber, NIR
Smör Bakery bakes Scandinavian pastries and bread from a small unit in Comber Square, including…
The Artisan Cheesemonger
Holywood, NIR
The Artisan Cheesemonger occupies 40-42 High Street in Holywood, a single specialist cheese shop…
The Butcher's Deli Newtownards
Newtownards, NIR
The Butcher's Deli has traded on Newtownards' High Street since 2018 as a sister business to H&J…
The Finest Cut
Comber, NIR
The Finest Cut is a butcher's shop on Bridge Street in Comber selling fresh and matured meat…
Thomas' Family Butchers
Bangor, NIR
A small family-run butcher on Bangor's High Street, selling fresh cuts, own-made sausages, burgers…
Culture
Battletown Gallery
Newtownards, NIR
Battletown Gallery occupies a converted coach house at 90 Bowtown Road, on a farm outside…
Coffee Yard
Holywood, NIR
Coffee Yard has traded from 102-104 High Street in Holywood since opening in December 2005, pairing…
Doghouse Gallery
Comber, NIR
Doghouse Gallery occupies 97-99 Mill Street in Comber, a single showroom opened in 2000 by jeweller…
Seacourt Print Workshop
Bangor, NIR
Seacourt Print Workshop was founded in 1981 by Margaret Arthur and Jean Duncan, initially operating…
Somme Museum
Newtownards, NIR
Museum at Conlig between Newtownards and Bangor, established in 1994 by the Somme Association, a…
The Court House
Bangor, NIR
A music and arts venue on Quay Street in Bangor, run by the local charity Open House in a building…
Ulster Transport Museum
Holywood, NIR
At Cultra, Holywood, the Ulster Transport Museum is one of four museums looked after by National…
Web Theatre
Newtownards, NIR
Web Theatre on North Street is understood to be the only privately owned theatre in Ireland,…
Yard Gallery
Holywood, NIR
Yard Gallery opened on Holywood High Street in 2005 as a purpose-built space showing contemporary…
Workshop
Art & Framing Bangor
Bangor, NIR
Art & Framing has operated from the Balloo Industrial Estate on the edge of Bangor for more than…
Boom Studios
Bangor, NIR
Artist-led creative hub on Bangor's Main Street, established as a social enterprise and registered…
Eden Pottery
Millisle, NIR
Eden Pottery is a working pottery and paint-your-own studio on the Ards peninsula at Millisle,…
Redsmith's Forge
Millisle, NIR
A coppersmithing studio on Abbey Road in Millisle, run by Matthew and Caron, who both trained in…
Robinson Goldsmiths
Bangor, NIR
Robinson Goldsmiths works from a workshop on Prospect Road in Bangor, where Eric and Rosemary…
Tulipwoodcrafts
Teconnaught, NIR
Woodturning and carving workshop on the Teconnaught Road outside Downpatrick. Geoff Tulip has…
Welig Heritage Crafts
Portaferry, NIR
Welig Heritage Crafts operates from a smallholding near Portaferry, where basketmaker Clive Lyttle…
Counter
Ards Evangelical Bookshop
Newtownards, NIR
Family-run Christian bookshop occupying Crimond House on Frances Street in Newtownards town centre,…
Bending Sound Records
Bangor, NIR
Bending Sound Records opened on Record Store Day in 2017, filling a gap left by the closure of…
Bookends
Bangor, NIR
Bookends is Bangor's second-hand bookshop, a single owner-run room on Dufferin Avenue given over to…
Doodle & Boom
Bangor, NIR
Independent gift, home and lifestyle shop on Bangor's seafront at Quay Street, run by…
Floral Creations
Comber, NIR
Floral Creations has traded from Bridge Street Link in Comber for more than twenty years,…
Harrisons of Greyabbey
Greyabbey, NIR
Harrisons of Greyabbey occupies 35 Ballybryan Road on the outskirts of the village, reached from…
Home Sweet Home
Donaghadee, NIR
Home Sweet Home occupies a cottage-styled shop on Donaghadee's High Street, combining a coffee…
J. McDonald Florist
Newtownards, NIR
J. McDonald Florist has been arranging and delivering flowers from its High Street shop in…
Oscar & Joy
Holywood, NIR
Oscar & Joy trades from 94 High Street in Holywood, a home, interior and gift shop incorporated in…
The Bike House
Bangor, NIR
An independent bike shop and workshop that began as a small town-centre store in 2015 before…
The Natural Room Emporium
Comber, NIR
The Natural Room Emporium is an antiques and interiors showroom on Castle Street in Comber, run by…
The Old Courthouse, Greyabbey
Greyabbey, NIR
The Old Courthouse occupies one of Greyabbey's oldest buildings, on the Square at the centre of a…
Cellar
Ards Brewing Company
Greyabbey, NIR
Ards Brewing Company has operated from a small industrial unit at 34b Carrowdore Road, Greyabbey,…
Copeland Distillery
Donaghadee, NIR
Gareth Irvine founded Copeland in 2015 and, after a crowdfunding round, opened it in 2019 in the…
Echlinville Distillery
Kircubbin, NIR
When Shane and Lynn Braniff bought the Echlinville estate on the Ards peninsula in 2007, they set…
Holywood Wine Bar
Holywood, NIR
A wine bar on High Street in Holywood serving a wine-led list alongside small plates, sharing…
Modest Beer
Bangor, NIR
Modest Beer began as a one-batch experiment brewed in a Holywood garage before growing into a…
Neill Wine
Groomsport, NIR
Neill Wine runs an independent wine shop on Groomsport's Main Street, built around what it calls…
Snug
Fiddler's Green
Portaferry, NIR
Fiddler's Green sits on Portaferry's central square, bought in July 1989 by Maureen and Frank…
First & Last
Millisle, NIR
A traditional local bar on Main Street in Millisle, popular with regulars who come in for a pint,…
Grace Neill's
Donaghadee, NIR
Grace Neill's trades from 33 High Street in Donaghadee, in a building licensed since 1611 and…
Imperial Bar Bangor
Bangor, NIR
The Imperial Bar is a traditional pub on Central Avenue in Bangor town centre, noted by CAMRA's pub…
Jenny Watts
Bangor, NIR
Jenny Watts on Bangor's High Street dates from 1780 and is generally reckoned to be the town's…
McBrides on the Square
Comber, NIR
McBrides on the Square has traded from the same corner of Comber's Square since 1975, run today by…
The Dirty Duck Alehouse
Holywood, NIR
Cask ale pub on Kinnegar Road in Holywood, in a building first licensed as the Kinnegar Hotel in…
The Parlour Bar & Restaurant
Newtownards, NIR
The Parlour Bar & Restaurant occupies 4 Castle Place in Newtownards, a building dating to 1735 that…
The Saltwater Brig
Kircubbin, NIR
The Saltwater Brig stands at 43 Rowreagh Road on the A20 Portaferry road, around two miles south of…
Wildfowler Inn
Greyabbey, NIR
The Wildfowler Inn is a family-run pub and restaurant on Greyabbey's Main Street, close to the…
Rest
Cairn Bay Lodge
Bangor, NIR
Cairn Bay Lodge is an Edwardian villa overlooking Ballyholme Bay, run as a guesthouse by the Mullen…
Fiddler's Green
Portaferry, NIR
Fiddler's Green sits on Portaferry's central square, bought in July 1989 by Maureen and Frank…
One Shore St.
Donaghadee, NIR
One Shore St offers five bedrooms in a restored Georgian townhouse overlooking Donaghadee harbour,…
Pier 36
Donaghadee, NIR
Pier 36 opened in September 1999 on Donaghadee's harbour quayside at 36 The Parade, combining a…
Princetown Guesthouse
Bangor, NIR
Princetown Guesthouse occupies two adjoining Victorian townhouses on Princetown Road, a short walk…
Rayanne House
Holywood, NIR
Rayanne House occupies a red-brick villa dating to 1883 at 60 Demesne Road in Holywood, run as a…
Rockhaven
Newtownards, NIR
A family-run bed and breakfast on Mountain Road at Whitespots, a few minutes' drive from…
The Narrows Guesthouse
Portaferry, NIR
The Narrows occupies a row of former fishermen's cottages on Shore Road in Portaferry, facing…
Windfjord
Portaferry, NIR
Owner-run bed and breakfast on Windmill Hill in Portaferry, overlooking the narrows where…
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