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Here are some of the nice things said about Copper.
Copper
won the highly prestigious "NothernTIreland Tourist Board award for Hospitality 2008"
The judges said "the
Copper restaurant opened in December 2004 and is now firmly established as a popular restaurant for both locals and visitors". Judges scored Copper highly for the excellent presentation of food and the friendly
and knowledgeable staff who “smiled as if they really loved their jobs”.
 Copper has been selected for inclusion in the highley respected Michelin Guide for 2007
and 2008
In it's first year Copper has enhanced the reputations of its' owners - chef Neil
Bradley & manager Sarah Meaney. The atmosphere is relaxed, the waiting staff friendly and attentive, and the food
a crisp mix of classic French with bits of Asian, Irish and Italian thrown in. Ingredients are mainly sourced locally
and the menus change every month - there's even an attractive and interesting vegetarian menu. This is relaxed and fun
dining. And being in county down diners can still (for the time being at least) enjoy a cigar at the bar with a fine
port or whiskey afterwards. The web keeps diners up to date with the restaurants menu, special offers and other activities.
There's a fun blog site as well.
Upside: a really welcoming atmosphere.
Downside: booking advisable.
Taken from "the definitive Guide to Irelands Best Restaurants, EatOut 2006"
On Sat Jun24th myself and 3 others booked a table in copper, I had heard lots of good reports and was keen to try it
out. I can honestly say I have never had a better meal or better service in a restaurant. The food was superb and all
4 of us are fussy eaters. It was a real treat from start to finish, with all the little extras, the home made breads
and the hand made chocolates. We are still raving about it. Keep up the good work.
Una Barron.
hi there,
four of us came to the Copper restaurant on Sunday evening, it was the best evening ever, we'd
never been before, but the food was amazing, the service we got was exceptional. the atmosphere was brilliant, the girl that
served us just couldn't do enough to make our evening special.
we are definitely coming again as it was just such an amazing evening.
also i had a play on the piano, which made the evening, i have always wanted to play the piano
in a restaurant and i had a bit of a play, it wasn't brill as i'd no music, as i can never remember songs, but it was a gorgeous
piano to play.
so thankyou again, for a fabulous evening.
Ariane Evans
I enjoyed a really beautiful meal with my husband in your restaurant and returned recently with female friends for lunch,
we received as good of service for the lunch as we did for the diner, with complimentary bread rolls and sweets. Would highly
recommend your restaurant.
L. McArdle
Warrenpoint
On the 31st May 2006 Copper won the Best New Business Award at the Greater Newry area business awards!
Belfast Telegraph Home > Lifestyle > Food & Drink
A tantalising
tale of the unexpected
Eating: Copper 4, Duke Street, Warrenpoint, Co Down & 4175 3047
03 March 2006
You
know how it is; one glance at the menu and you can tell right away if you're going to have a good night or not. Sometimes
it's deep-fried brie for starters and surf 'n' turf for mains and the spirits slump. Then again, sometimes reading the a la
carte is like wandering into an episode of Tales of the Unexpected, and spirits soar.
After a quick browse over the
list of dishes on offer in Copper, our spirits were in the stratosphere and heading for earth orbit.
Too often there's
only one thing that stands out in an otherwise bog-standard menu, or worse still, there's about 50 dishes listed and every
one of them is tediously predictable. What a delight, then, to discover a menu like that at Copper where you want to try everything
offered and have to take ages narrowing it down to just one choice.
The food here is an exciting collision of Mediterranean
and Asian influences, where good meat and fish is often just given a simple roasting or grilling and the real sparkle goes
into the accompanying locally-sourced vegetables. So, for example, you get a nice piece of seabass as a starter, but the main
features of the salad that goes with it are orange and rhubarb, or you choose lamb for a main course and it comes roasted
quite simply with a few herbs plus mustard-crusted potatoes and basil braised vegetables on the side.
Needless to
say, all this temptation caused us some agonising, but after some spirited horse-trading about who would have what, we agreed
that my wife would have the artichoke and Roquefort pizza for starters, followed by grilled salmon with fennel gnocchi and
braised salsify, while I would tackle the pork and noodle hotpot to begin with and duck breast with sweet potato mash and
shitake dumplings for main course.
I'm glad to say the food was just as fabulous as the menu promised. Topping a mini
pizza with sharp, tangy Roquefort is the perfect way to lighten what could easily have been a heavy starter, while the pork
and noodle hotpot was a lively broth buzzing with Asian signatures of coriander, ginger, and spring onion.
Both the
salmon and duck had been treated well in the kitchen; the salmon grilled just to the point where there's a slight stickiness
abut the skin, and the duck left pink inside but with its deep, dark flavour coaxed out. More Asian influences accompanied
the duck - rich, earthy shitake mushroom dumplings and green beans flavoured with soy sauce and ginger, plus a perky sweet
potato mash to offset the saltiness. The salmon's bedfellows were carefully calculated not to overpower the fish - braised
salsify (how often do you see that on a menu?), dainty little fennel gnocchi, whose aniseed flavour was perhaps too subtle
for its own good, and a light lemon butter.
The problem of what to choose for dessert was solved when my wife ordered
Copper's dessert plate, which has a little sample of all five puddings on offer - Turkish delight panna cotta, pineapple upside-down
cake, warm chocolate cake, mango cheesecake and strawberry and champagne jelly - all excellent and freshly made on the premises.
I opted for the cheese plate, a lovely selection of Irish favourites like Durrus, Ardrahan and Cashel Blue served
at room temperature.
The quality of the food alone is enough to ensure a place Copper on anyone's To Do list of eating-out
spots, but what really makes it a must-visit is the extra little touches, that all-too-rare attention to detail that elevates
a good dining experience into the realms of the truly special.
The tables are adorned with crisp white linen and fresh
flowers, the menus are elegantly produced, the staff are unfailingly courteous, attentive and knowledgeable, there's an excellent
vegetarian menu, a cigar menu (though smoking is only permitted at the bar, not in the restaurant), and in addition to the
food we ordered we were presented with appetisers of an espresso cup filled with a tomato and basil consommé and a freshly
baked bread roll with roasted onion and a grinding of salt, black pepper and Szechuan pepper to sprinkle over the top, plus
a plate of home-prepared petit fours to enjoy with our coffee at the end.
And the most surprising thing about all
of this is that our three-course meal with all those little extras cost just £23.50 per head, minus coffee and wine. I can
honestly say I've paid twice that for meals I've only enjoyed half as much.
One final note: the layout of Copper is
ideally suited for diners with mobility problems - everything is at street level, there's plenty of space between tables and
a disabled toilet is provided.
Gary Law
Artichoke and Roquefort pizza
Pork and noodle hotpot
Duck
breast with sweet potato mash
Grilled salmon with fennel gnocchi
Dessert plate
Cheese plate
£23.50
per person
Bottle of Shiraz-Cabernet £14
Americano £1.50
Espresso £1.20
TOTAL £63.70
Menu
OOOO
Service OOOO
Value OOOO
Disabled OOOO
Décor OOO
Parking OO
Ratings:
Excellent OOOO
Good OOO
Average OO
Poor O
Taken from Belfast Telegraph Friday 3rd March 2006
Copper
Georgina Campbell
seeks refuge on a rainy Monday afternoon, and finds it along with comforting food and a warm County Down
welcome.
If a reviewer walking in the door on a wet Monday lunchtime sounds like a restaurateur’s idea of hell,
spare a thought for Neil Bradley and Sarah Meaney. After working in well-known
Belfast restaurants like Cayenne and
Ta Tu Bar & Grill (where Neil was head chef), Neil and Sarah opened their own smart new south County
Down restaurant, Copper just before Christmas.
We selected a corner table with a commanding view of all the comings and goings, welcomingly set
up with classic white linen, fresh flowers, proper salt & pepper mills and a jug of iced water with fruit in it –
nice little touches, all giving out the right messages. The lunch menu was short
and to the point (bravo!) with five main courses offered, plus a soup: but the (quite extensive) a la carte menu was also
offered. Seeming determined to send customers away happy if at all possible,
there was no problem ordering something not quite on the menu. Portions were
generous, and there was no need for any extra side orders.
A highly enjoyable
meal and delightful service. Lucky south Down – another great choice for
the discerning diners, and well worth a detour.
Verdict “A welcome addition to south Down’s burgeoning dining scene”
Taken from “food
& wine magazine” June 2005
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Great site, good job the food is just as good, visited last saturday, everything was brilliant, pass this on to your Staff
http://www.copperrestaurant.blogspot.com/Regards