Tartine At The Distillers Arms - Moyle

We visit Tartine each year on our annual pilgrimage to Bushmills and it is always vey good. This time though it exceeded our expectations. Food was excellent, staff fabulous and good value for money. We had Sunday lunch and both blown away with the quality of food and each had glasses of house wines which were generous portions The decor, cleanliness and ambience all excellent.

I have always loved this restaurant and visited many times, however, our last visit was not the usual experience. We were seated at the front of the restaurant which hasn’t got the same atmosphere as the main part of the building. Not a big issue as we were there for the food. I would have preferred not to have had the mussel shells from the previous diner under my feet though. I can’t remember what our starters were (says a lot) but we ordered steak and pork as mains. I didn’t try the steak so wouldn’t be fair to comment but there wasn’t much feed back other than ‘I’ve had better and you couldn’t eat the mushrooms’. The pork was well cooked but the rest of the plate not so much. The black pudding was completely dried out and the cabbage and bacon was very oily, both inedible unfortunately. For the first time we had no dessert. When asked if we enjoyed our meal we said it was just ok, no response from the staff we paid our bill and left. I appreciate views are subjective and maybe because I love Tartine so much it was a sore disappointment.

Went here for the early bird dinner and we really enjoyed our meal! It was excellent. Service was great too. Highly recommend.

Restaurant was freezing. It was so so noisy I couldn’t hear my husband speaking. Food was laced with salt. Definitely a very poor experience!!!

Highly recommend. I stayed in Bushmills for the weekend and made a reservation for a table of 8 at the restaurant. None of us had ever been to Tartine before, but we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the food on the early dining menu. It was delicious and offered great value at around £25 for 2 courses, which also included a choice of wine or beer. The staff were extremely friendly, adding to the overall enjoyable dining experience. Tartine is definitely a top-notch restaurant that I would recommend visiting. I will definitely be returning soon. Thank you, Tartine!