Central Cafe

The Central Cafe is one of Stranraer's oldest food fixtures — a family-run traditional fish and chip restaurant and cafe on Charlotte Street that has traded in the centre of the town since 1960. Stranraer is the historic Wigtownshire ferry port at the head of Loch Ryan, and although the original Stranraer-Larne Northern Ireland ferry route was relocated up the loch to Cairnryan in 2011, the town centre remains the working core of the wider district.

The shop runs both a sit-in restaurant on one side and a takeaway counter on the other, with the classic chippy menu at the heart of the offer: fish suppers, haddock and chips, sausage suppers, pie suppers, fried chicken, scampi, burgers and a kids' menu, alongside a wider cafe-style range of breakfasts, paninis and rolls in the daytime trade. Reviewer call-outs run heavily to the freshness of the fish, the batter and the value-for-money daily-special boards.

The cafe trades a daytime through to early-evening service across the week, with seasonal variations advertised on the cafe's Facebook page.