Gowdys Of Down Royal - Lisburn

I have mentioned Gowdys before and it’s always been 100%. Staff excellent food excellent great menus with specials. The icing in the cake today has been their new extra ordinary Irish, Calypso. Royale, monte Cristio and Jamaican. Developed in house and totally stunning. I’d love to try some other place to beat these oh and served with chocolate mints which just go perfectly. Well done Brian and team you are definitely onto a winner.

First time in Gowdy’s and was looking forward to an enjoyable Sunday meal with my family. Nice setting and good service from staff. To say I was disappointed with the food would be an understatement. I ordered turkey and ham. As soon as it was set down it was clear this was not going to be an enjoyable meal. The turkey was processed, frozen roast potatoes were used and the veg had lots of tiny pieces of broccoli but with not one head of broccoli. I went for brownie and ice cream for desert. Was really good though it’s just placed on a plate there and made elsewhere so I suppose they can’t go wrong with that. The place was busy so maybe I chose poorly, but I think for what I paid that fresh produce would be the least they would offer. It strikes me as a place that has settled for producing sub standard fayre. Has so much potential. Won’t be back. I’m sure many first timers feel the same.

Been twice in last two weeks, food is good as usual, however the service isn’t what it used to be. Getting attention initially was ok but when the main meal was finished the service seemed to disappear. Leaving customers with used plates and cutlery and no follow up to see if any more drinks or desserts are wanted isn’t really the way to keep customers. I thought the first time was a one off, but we got the same service within a week. Service needs attention

We hadn’t been to Gowdy’s for several years but it didn’t disappoint. We were seated at a really nice window table near the enormous log fire and enjoyed the festivities including a visit from Santa. The four of us all ordered the pate as our starter and we had a mixture of roast beef, turkey and ham and the turkey pie for mains. The food was both delicious and hot and the staff were amazing and keep checking on us to ensure everything was good. We are hoping to get back to Gowdy’s soon but are delighted to write this review on this amazing establishment .

After a previous ok visit this time was disappointing. The food was not great I brought most of the roast beef home for my dogs as it was very tough. After ordering a starter of soup a different flavour arrived so had to return it and reorder.