Sniffing out a gem in a picture-perfect town

Gillian Nelis enjoyed her stop-off in the Parson’s Nose in Hillsborough

The Parson’s Nose in Hillsborough, Co Down: plenty of culinary choice in a tranquil setting

The Parson’s Nose

48 Lisburn Street, Hillsborough, Co Down

004428-92683009,

ballooinns.com/the-parsons-nose

Chef: Danny Millar

A journalist friend once got himself into all manner of bother by describing a town as “a poor man’s Hillsborough”. So exercised were the inhabitants of that town that he’s unlikely to describe anywhere in those terms in anything he ever writes again.

But if my - admittedly limited - experience of the place is anything to go by, ...