Business Details
43 Years
experience
Your Trusted Family-Run Restaurant for Tasty Chicken Burgers in Newry
Established in 1983, Friar Tuck's has grown from a single restaurant in Newry to a well-established chain renowned for its quality food and family-friendly service. As a family-owned business, we prioritise personal oversight and commitment, ensuring every location maintains our high standards. Our signature chicken burgers are crafted using a unique seasoning blend, while our chips are freshly prepared daily at our dedicated chipping plant in Newry. We take pride in supporting local communities through employment and sourcing ingredients from regional suppliers. With over 150 staff across multiple locations, we continue to uphold our founding principles of fair pricing, friendly service, and culinary excellence.Our menu has evolved since 1983 to include diverse options like paninis and wraps, while retaining classic favourites. Every restaurant offers a welcoming atmosphere where customers can enjoy freshly prepared meals made with locally sourced ingredients. Our success stems from combining traditional methods with modern innovations, ensuring consistent quality across all our locations. We remain committed to maintaining the same dedication to excellence that defined our first day of operation.
Services
Chicken Burgers
Beef Burgers
Fresh Chips
Paninis
Wraps
Details
- Year established: 1983
Highlights and features
- Family-owned since 1983 with consistent quality standards
- Locally sourced ingredients supporting regional businesses
- Over 150 staff across multiple locations in Northern Ireland
- Custom-built chipping plant for fresh daily potato preparation
- Maintained original seasoning formula for signature chicken burgers
Services
Chicken Burgers
Our signature chicken burgers feature juicy pieces coated in a proprietary herb and spice blend, lightly fried to golden perfection. The recipe developed in 1983 remains unchanged, ensuring consistent quality across all locations. Each burger uses freshly prepared ingredients, maintaining the same standards established at our first Newry restaurant.
Fresh Chips
Chips are prepared daily at our dedicated Newry chipping plant using non-frozen potatoes. The process involves de-stoning, peeling, cutting, and blanching to achieve uniform quality. This commitment to freshness ensures customers receive chips at their peak texture and flavour, as served since our 1983 inception.
Paninis
Modern additions to our 1983 menu, paninis offer toasted sandwich options with various fillings. Prepared using traditional methods while maintaining our quality standards, these hot sandwiches complement our classic burger offerings. Available at all locations with ingredients sourced to the same rigorous specifications as our original menu items.
Wraps
Wraps provide a contemporary alternative to traditional sandwiches, featuring fresh ingredients in soft tortilla bread. Added to our menu through years of evolution, they maintain the same commitment to quality as our original 1983 offerings. Prepared to order with locally sourced components at every restaurant location.
Beef Burgers
Original menu items since our 1983 opening, beef burgers remain a staple offering. Prepared with the same attention to quality as our chicken burgers, using fresh ingredients and traditional methods. Available at all locations with consistent preparation standards maintained across our restaurant chain.
Questions
When did Friar Tucks first open?
Friar Tucks opened its first restaurant in Monaghan Street, Newry in 1983.
What makes your chicken burgers special?
Our signature seasoning blend of herbs and spices, developed in 1983, creates the distinctive golden-fried chicken burgers served at all locations.
Do you use fresh ingredients?
Yes, we prepare fresh chips daily at our Newry chipping plant and source ingredients locally where possible.
Are all your restaurants family-run?
While we've expanded since 1983, our family maintains oversight across all locations while employing over 150 local staff members.
What other menu items do you offer?
Alongside our original burgers, we now serve paninis, wraps, and various other dishes while maintaining our 1983 quality standards.
Where are your restaurants located?
We operate in Newry, Banbridge, and Warrenpoint across County Down, Northern Ireland.
Reviews (7)
Amy Scullion
Nov 29, 2021
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Two times in a row got to the car was given wrong burger plus second time forgot nuggets too otherwise good food . Just need to check orders
Dee Mac
Sep 22, 2021
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Wow how the mighty have fallen! I've been ordering food from here since it opened, so I thought I'd call in today as a treat for the family for lunch the experience of the staff was normal friendly service though I wish I could say the same about the food, chips tasted horrible like they'd been cooked days earlier and reheated the chicken wasn't that great either definitely not the quality I've come to expect from frier tucks lurgan especially being the only person there and with the high quality of food coming out of places locally definitely not one they can survive on, shame
Cathy Lockhart
Sep 16, 2021
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Really tasty good priced food. Definitely worth stopping at if your passing and good car park as well.
David Breen
Jul 30, 2021
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The absolutely most terrible food I and my children have ever been served and expected to consume.. The cheese burger was like a rubber tyre which was obviously cooked earlier and left for god knows how long.. The staff Need help if thinking serving such food is good and enjoyable for the general public.. hopefully close soon before somebody becomes seriously ill..
Raymond Mccrory
Jun 30, 2021
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1/4 Burger very thin and tasteless, children chicken nugget meal had only 3 small nuggets and no toy as advertised, chips were bland but garlic dip was nice and helped, fish was full of bones and soggy batter but mushy peas are ok, onion rings were brick hard and sausages were very cheap tasting. No battered sausages which I found strange as any other chippy can just put the sausages in batter mix and make them easily. Would not eat here again very disappointed.
Joe Hill
Oct 24, 2020
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Place was clean and got served fairly quickly. Food was OK, however we did not order the puddle of grease that came with the cheeseburger. It was quickly exchanged for another which was much better although my experiences with Friar Tucks establishments has been much the same across the country. All in all it can be hit or miss, but the kids seem to enjoy it
George R.
Jun 27, 2020
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I really don't know what the fuss is about this place. It serves overpriced, industrially produced, rubbish food. I know people who have moved away to work and live and when they return home for visits a stop here is a must for them. I find that sad. I was with a group who decided to go here for their chicken burger and chips. It would never be my choice but I was well outnumbered. It was takeaway given the Wu flu and while I had this rubbish bought for me but I think it was around 7.5 for chicken breast burger & chips with a Diet Coke. The burger included a white bread roll and
