Situated deep in farming country in County Down, this shrine to prime-cut short-horn steak brings out the butcher’s boy in Jay
The Bull & Ram, Dromore Street, Ballynahinch, County Down BT24 8AG
(028 9756 0908). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £90
The building that houses the dining room of the Bull & Ram, 30 minutes’ drive south of Belfast, was never likely to be a vegan café. Turning this Grade 1 listed Edwardian butcher’s shop into anything other than it now is would simply have been an opportunity missed. There is a chequerboard floor, and half tiling in shades of emerald.
The beef, and this is a technical term, is tear-inducingly bloody lovely
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