Mccooey's - Newry and Mourne

We nipped in to get a quick breakfast to cure the hanger. Leanne was on her own with plenty of customers to serve. The service was fast and fantastic. The breakfast was fancy hotel breakfast quality. Couldnt fault a thing!! Can't wait to go back..nicest breakfast ever!!

This is a first for me. A Wu flu review at a distance; so I didn’t actually go in the door of this cafe, nor did I choose the foodie goodies, nor can I comment on the prices as I don’t know them either. I’ll explain: we are locked down at home and we can’t go out. So a week or so ago, knowing our first world plight, two of our friends arrived at our door with two cappuccinos from this business and stood well back from our front door (other friends sent us flowers). The lady owner of this place has maintained food coffee service six days a week on her own (not Sunday) all over lockdown from a serving hatch. Fair play to her. I wasn’t going to do a review just on two cappuccinos even though they were very good cappuccinos. I’d gone to this cafe a few times over the years but it was now long ago. Today changed things when our friends arrived once more with two cappuccinos and two sausage rolls and stood well back. Now I’m fussy about sausage rolls (and sausages). I’m conscious that those with less scruples know they can get away with very cheap, fatty ‘meat’ and cheap fat laden anaemic looking barely cooked pastry. If you are local and you want to try cheap to make (but not cheap to buy) industrially made sausage rolls there’s choices down hill street. So back to this place. I was sceptical about the quality of sausage rolls but my scepticism was totally misplaced. They were delicious. The sausage meat did not taste at all cheap nor fatty. We heated them and the aroma was lovely but I actually think they taste great cold because they aren’t greasy just like excellent Melton Mowbray pork pies. The spice kick was about right these rolls really have great taste and the best surprise of all our friends said that the owner makes them herself and together with minced pork she had added chorizo, goats cheese and jalapeño. This is what happens when an astute business concentrates on quality food products first on what they are making to sell, rather than simply being only interested in maximising profit regardless by making food as cheap as possible while staying legal. The sausage roll pastry too was delicious. It was light and golden. flavoursome and moreish. So we’ve become instant fans. The owner usually has a blackboard out front with a joke or an acerbic comment and she sure has a healthy, cheeky sense of humour her observation style is more akin to Chrissy T eigen than Plato

Operating from a hole in the wall carry out during pandemic it was quite busy. Closing at 4pm I just made it. I ordered an iced latte with hazelnut flavour and a sausage roll. The coffee was really nice as was the sausage roll.At £4.80 it was fair value and filled the pre evening meal hole in my tummy. Recommended.

After reading the reviews, I was keen to try this cafe. We visited at about 3pm on a Saturday. We were able to park opposite and I was surprised by it’s shabby exterior, but we continued in. We ordered and were promptly brought a big pot of tea, great start. My husband enjoyed his Big bap, hence the rating of two, but my Goat’s cheese and beetroot sandwich was awful, consisting of a few crumbs of goat’s cheese and two thick layers of beetroot. Luckily, I like beetroot and I was hungry, so I ate it. I almost think I was in a different place to other reviewers! The service was minimal, staff were sitting around chatting or on their mobiles. It was not a good experience.

Been dying to come to this place for a while, very clean place and love the tables with the pennies stuck on it, I ordered a sausage n egg on granary toast which isn't on the menu but the lovely friendly lady made me it and it was very big so thumbs up there, I will be back here..