If you’re here from my ramblings about our adventure around the Ards Peninsula, this was probably the highlight of our day. If you haven’t seen that post you check out it out here.
One of my favourite restaurants was Katch 27 in Kircubbin which I had previously written about here, here and here before, but I couldn’t believe I hadn’t followed up.
Katch 27 closed in 2019 before Leigh and David opened in The New Quays at Portavogie in early 2020. David was the former Head Chef of The Quays so it’s lovely for him to have come full circle.
Category: Food
I first visited Katch 27 in Kircubbin in May with Maria, the niece of our former Spanish neighbours. She was boarding in Victoria College and my parents became her guardians when our neighbours, Pilar and Alejandro, moved back to Spain.
Alejandro and Pilar are over staying with us for a few days and following Maria’s positive comments about Katch 27, we decided to take them there for Sunday lunch.
Pilar, Alejandro, mum, dad and me
As part of my travels around the North Coast (which you can read about here) we headed to the Central Wine Bar (or just the Central Bar) in Ballycastle for dinner.
We used to have Spanish friends in my street but they went back home at the end of last year. Their niece had come over to Belfast to board at Victoria College to learn English and with her aunt and uncle moving back to Spain, my parents became her guardians.
We have done a few things with her at weekends and over the May Day holiday we decided to go off the beaten track a bit and go around the Ards Peninsula. My dad was sitting on the iPad last week and happened to stumble across a café called Katch 27 in Kircubbin. The restaurant came in at number 4 for restaurants in Co Down according to TripAdvisor so we thought it would be good to try it.