The Ulster Hotel

THE ULSTER HOTEL IN IPSWICH PERMANENTLY CLOSED IN JANUARY 2016.

The Ulster Hotel is a charmingly refurbished historic pub on the outskirts of Ipswich city, which makes a perfect drop-in for a craft beer or some excellent pub grub.

Inside, the original features of the high-ceilinged rooms have been carefully preserved: polished floorboards, pressed metal ceilings. cornices and fanlights, while the menu is firmly planted in the 21st century.

Lunch options vary from the light – herb crusted squid, home made frittata or pear and walnut salad – to the more substantial like pasta, gourmet burgers and steak sandwiches.
(Recommended is The Ulster Premium Slider – a generous serve of two mini burgers with the divine in-house beer battered chips).

For dinner things ramp up a notch with a choice of Angus Riverina award-winning grain fed beef based steaks (Porterhouse, Eye or Scoth Fillet or retro Steak Dianne), risotto, pasta, barramundi, pork piccata, chicken parma or beef and ale pie. All menu items come with a recommended beer and varietal wine match.

For dessert try The Ulster classic Baileys bread and butter pudding and for children there’s a choice of chicken or steak (with drink suggestion pink lemonade).

On the beer front, unlike most pubs of its ilk, The Ulster is a proud supporter of craft-only companies and at any given time will have a selection of up to 14 (including My Wife’s Bitter Heff, Feral White Hop Hog, Celtic Red Ale and White Rabbit Dark)  rotating on tap.

And the wine list here is a cut above too, with a carefully selected choice of varietals that you won’t find in just any old pub. (But then The Ulster is not just any old pub).