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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Underground Dining

52/100
  • Bangor, Down
  • Contemporary fine dining
  • By the glass
  • £££ (mains £16 to £36; bottles £18 to £80; Prosecco £7.50/200ml)
  • Beta
  • Assessed July 2026
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These are confidence labels. They show how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta means assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list) and the restaurant has not yet had the chance to correct any factual inaccuracy, so it is published with that caveat.
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  • In development means not yet a review. It appears so you can see where coverage is coming.

Restaurants often change their menus. The date beside the label says when we last reviewed.

We assessed Underground Dining in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess

Underground Dining is a chef-led contemporary restaurant on Bangor's High Street, cooking ambitious, produce-led food from a Michelin-trained kitchen alongside a short, mostly commercial wine list. The wine programme's reach does not match the cooking's (bottle-led, with thin by-the-glass and no high-acid white poured for the seafood) though it punches above its length in Champagne and in a proper dessert-and-Port offer by the small glass. It will suit the diner who comes for the plate and is happy to choose a bottle to match, more than one hoping to explore by the glass.

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  • By the glass
  • ££ (mains £17 to £32; glasses £6.25 to £11.50; bottles £24 to £75)
  • Assessed October 2026
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