Galgorm is just outside Ballymena and we at Ballymena Today have grouped together some of our favourite Galgorm based businesses who can offer you an excellent Mother’s Day gift idea. Pick one treat or mix and match your mum’s perfect day out.
1/ Eat at the Eagle Bar and Grill
The Eagle Bar and Grill is located in the clubhouse at Galgorm Castle Golf Course.
The Clubhouse Bar & Restaurant, the award winning Eagle Bar & Grill is one of Ireland’s premier Clubhouse eating establishments.
Chris Bell, former Northern Ireland Chef of the Year and Great British Menu Finalist heads the Eagle Bar & Grill. The Eagle offers traditional hearty meals alongside new offerings showcasing the finest, local produce, ensuring there is certainly something for everyone. (Source)
Here is their special Mother’s Day Menu.
Take your mum along for a cosy dinner together and enjoy a view of the golf greens.
We love the look of their £4 / £8 / £4 menu which is available Monday – Saturday from 12.00 – 18.30 – you can take a look at here.
2/ Velvet Rose Galgorm
Velvet Rose is a beauty salon located at Galgorm Castle which offers a host of treats that could be perfect this Mother’s Day.
In Velvet Rose you can pick from a host of beauty treatments including Massages, waxing, facials, tanning and, our favourite – the nail bar!
The Velvet Rose prides itself on the professional, welcoming approach to their customers. The salon boasts an HD brow bar, a couples therapy room, a spray tanning booth, a nail bar and two treatment rooms. Staff also provide intimate waxing treatments, hot stone massages, sea salt scrubs, acrylic and gel nails, body wraps, Vita Liberata spray tan and revitalising facials using Eve Taylor aromatherapy products. (Source)
Click here to take a look at their full menu of treatments and prices. The Velvet Rose also offer the option of buying your mum a gift voucher and then she can choose her own favourite treatment to indulge in.
3/ Galgorm Creative Gardens
Another place not to miss is Creative Gardens – the garden centre which is also in the Castle grounds.
Creative Gardens Galgorm Castle is one of three Creative Gardens Centres across Northern Ireland.The business modestly began when our owner, Diana Gass, started growing tomatoes and vegetables in her back garden. With the gradual introduction of plants and other products, our humble beginnings grew in to something much larger and since our conception in the early 1980s we have built a reputation for quality, experience and style.
The Gass family, who are still running the three centres today, have always ensured that the business remained focused on providing customers with excellent service in a highly creative and relaxing environment.
We are proud members of the Garden Centre Association (GCA), meaning that our customers are assured of an excellent level of service, plants and gardening products, together with innovative life-style displays, as well as professional advice and information. As a member, we are audited and marked yearly to ensure these high standards are maintained.
Creative Gardens has evolved into an Award Winning business, whose focus has always been on great quality plants, fantastic coffee and homemade foods. In addition to this, we also have a wonderful selection of gifts – so whatever your shopping needs may be, we are sure you will find the solution at Creative Gardens. (Source)
We love browsing through their blooms and especially at the moment as spring has just sprung. In the Centre you can get a cuppa and a traybake (they are massive) and have a look around their range of homewares and gifts.
So there you have it – three brilliant treats which you coudl enjoy with your mum this Mother’s Day. They are all in the same place – Galgorm, just outside Ballymena. Let us know what other businesses in Galgorm you would recommend we visit this Spring.