Ellies Cafe-grill - Dungannon

This restaurant serves the best food we have ever tried. The flavors in every dish were exceptional. We tried the sharing platter, duck spring rolls, and the duck main course. We are not local to the area, but we would definitely make the trip back just to eat here again. I highly recommend this restaurant.

I visited this restaurant on a Saturday afternoon. It was surprisingly quiet, despite the delicious food at reasonable prices. We tried the steak sandwich, BBQ burger, and salt and chili chicken, all of which were well-cooked. The homemade onion rings were a nice touch. The restaurant has great views and the staff were friendly and attentive.

I went to this restaurant last Tuesday evening with my family for a coffee. We only ended up here because Costa was closing. I ordered a large americano and my wife got a regular one. The sizes were absolutely terrible - the large was no more than 250ml, if that! I can't even imagine how small the regular size was. The two coffees alone cost us £6. We will not be returning. We will stick with Costa next time.

Walked in and the view straight away from the wall of windows... its stunning! It is worth 5 stars on its own! Lovely food and great service, even my picky eaters ate it all. Good selection for a lunch menu, really enjoyed it

I have eaten at Ellies on a number of occasions and found it hit and miss but post covid I figured I would try it again and was pleasantly surprised. I had a table booked for a low key family meal. We arrived and were quickly seated at the large back windows as I had requested which offer a spectacular view across Dungannon and beyond. The sunny day made this view even more impressive and offered many talking points. We were seated and a drinks order taken straight away while menus were distributed. The menu is a single, unlaminated printed sheet, a remanent of covid times which I hope will disappear soon as the single page is less than pleasant to order from. The one gripe I continue to have with Ellies is the slow service for the initial ordering of starters and mains. The service the rest of the time seems to be fine but this initial delay to order is a consistent issue. Starters arrived quickly consisting of brie, soup, salted chilli chicken and garlic mushrooms. I first want to say that the portions for starters are very generous. The bries were large wedges, there was plenty of chicken and mushrooms too. A delight when you consider that usually starter sizes can be rather mean. The brie was golden and gooey. The soup was a subtle, creamy curried cauliflower which was a delightful change of pace from the bog standard soup choices offered elsewhere. For mains we had steaks, chicken stacks, burgers and baked salmon. All of which was fabulous. Portions were generous and served very well. The steak was cooked to perfection with a lovely sear. The champ was creamy and the baked salmon was a riot of colour. For dessert we indulged in cheesecakes, lemon meringue pie and brownies. The cheesecake was super rich and sweet. The brownies very sweet but still nice. The lemon meingue let the side down a little because, while it looked like a work of art it was cold. Lemon meringue should be served hot, and not just the meringue blow torched to mildly warm and browned. From base to tip it should be hot. The vanilla ice cream tasted vaguely smokey also and was not something we would go for again. Other than speeding up the initial ordering and tinkering with the desserts to serve hot where appropriate and change the vanilla ice cream brand, I was very impressed with this trip to Ellies and will certainly be back. For the generous portions and good quality the meal was also quite reasonably priced!