Twilight Coffee & Bunkhouse

27/04/2026

Nearly May! We’ll be open extra days for the upcoming bank holidays: Mon, 4 May, and Mon, 25 May.

24/04/2026

Sun’s out and we’ve got that weekend feeling now! ☀️😎 💛 No better place than the Antrim Coast when the weather’s like this…what are you waiting for? 🌸🌼

18/04/2026

Have you had dinner with us on a Saturday night yet? Book a table on our website! Our specials tonight are:

🐟 crispy skin hake, brown butter, capers & lemon, pressed potato, charred greens, and toasted almonds

🐑 roast lamb rump, parmesan gnocchi, pistachio pesto, blistered tomatoes, watercress & pickled shallot and chilli salad with lamb sauce

05/04/2026

A wee treat from us for the kids this Easter break! 🐣💐🍫🐰🌷🐑🌼 School kids get 50% off when ordering from the kid’s menu this week (Mon, 6 Apr - Fri, 10 Apr).

31/03/2026

Our Easter holiday hours!! 🌷🐣💐🐰🌸🧁☕️ Basically, we’re open tomorrow and then every day until Mon, 13 April!

26/03/2026

The Antrim Coast Lions Club does so much for our local area, not to mention fundraising for national and international charities as well. If you’d like to be a part of this amazing group, we’re hosting their info night tomorrow night at 7 pm!

Please like and share we’d love to see you there.

24/03/2026

Thanks for all of the support on our last post—it means a lot!

Signing this petition takes about 2 min, if you want to voice your support for this change to the UK Government. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/743021

It’s to the benefit of all of your favourite independent cafes and restaurants and pubs to keep the pressure on! Thank you!!

23/03/2026

Your local independent cafes, restaurants, and pubs are struggling…

We’re adding our voices to those of the many other small businesses across the UK, begging Parliament for a lower VAT rate on hospitality. Our story isn’t unique—the UK has one of the highest VAT rates on hospitality in Europe, and every single one of your favourite independent spots is feeling the squeeze. You’ve probably already seen places closing.

In the current market our margins are practically non-existent, and with 20% VAT, it often feels we’re just running our business to pay the taxes. Costs keep increasing, but we can only price our items so high before customers (understandably) stop coming. So, we open fewer days or shorten our hours because we can’t afford to stay open when the place isn’t as busy. That, in turn, means fewer hours for our team, essentially wiping out the benefit of their annual wage increases. It means we don’t hire as many staff or give people a chance to get into the workforce. Portion sizes go down, or we make fewer items from scratch to save on prep costs. We don’t try new things or take risks to see what might come of them. Innovation and growth stop.

And as prices climb in Northern Ireland, hospitality businesses across the border can stay competitive, because the Republic of Ireland has a 13.5% VAT rate on hospitality (which will drop to 9% this July). So, we’ll all see fewer tourists coming through our doors, hurting us further. Throw in some geopolitical chaos, which means everything will cost little more and everyone will have a little less to spend…and it just gets harder to withstand those global impacts that are out of our control.

Let us be clear that we want to pay our employees higher wages, and we support legislation to protect employee rights. We want to keep their hours up. We want to use local produce, make fresh food from scratch, and blow you away with top-tier quality and service. And we want to do all that while keeping our prices as low as possible, so that our customers can afford to visit us. We want to keep supporting our local schools and clubs with discounts and donations. We love our team, our customers, and our community.

But it feels like doing things the right way and having a viable business model are incompatible goals. Paying 20% VAT gives us no room to breathe, and it forces us to constantly reassess how we can stay true to our values while still paying the government’s cut. The proposal to have a lower VAT rate for hospitality is one of the few policies that receives broad cross-party support in Northern Ireland, so you know how desperately it must be needed.

We’re doing a pricing review as we approach April, and some of our prices may go up where it’s unavoidable, but please believe us when we say it’s the absolute last thing we want to do. To those of you who keep coming and keep supporting us, thank you! If you’ve got any contacts in Stormont or Westminster, feel free to pass on our story.

--Robert & Tiffany

28/02/2026

Get booked in for dinner tonight! This week’s large plate fish special is pan-fried seabass, roasted sweet potato, red coconut curry, pickled golden raisins, spring onions, tenderstem broccoli, and cashews. Our small plate is Portavogie scampi, tartar sauce, and Carnlough dulse.