Northern Lights in Belfast

I have never written a Google review in my life before. I do not intend to make this a habit. However, such was the majesty and magnificence of an evening I recently spent in this bar, courtesy of Aidan master of ceremonies BE NI ltd, that I am willing to temporarily suspend this unwaivering rule. I feel compelled to expound on what a tremendous evening Aidan put on, in association with indefoods. This was a five course beer tasting event. Each course was expertly curated and paired superbly with a beer, cider or lager, that in turn was locally brewed to match and accentuate the flavours in local produce and ingredients. Arty the chef showed what he could do when given freedom and released from corporate shackles. Between them our hosts created a taste sensation. Special mentions to the butternut squash and whiskey marmalade soup, paired with a helles lager and to the truffle Mac and cheese with banging pale ale. A night that surpassed all expectations. And at 5 courses for 25 quid an absolute bargain! Well done those people. Outstanding.

Lovely local bar, went to the food tasting night and the food was amazing! Always new fun beers and the staff are so lovely ❤️ big up Aiden 5 stars

Attended Taste of NI event in Northern Lights. Great night with delicious food and drink. Thank you to the organiser! Would like more of these to come!

A superb pub! Not to be passed on if you’re in the area. Excellent range of beers, top rate staff, very good food.

Great night at the craft beer × Indie Fude pairing evening. Very well done. Aidans a great host! Chefs on point too! THANKS!

Beer & Food night has been excellent! Aidan, chef Artie, the beer and the food are all top class. Thanks for a great night!

The northern lights is quickly becoming a must visit place! We came to the food tasting and beer pairing evening, it was so much tasty food and lots of beer! Shoutout to Aidan as always for hosting another cracking evening!

Brilliant pub with a good selection of beer and an even better quiz master in Aidan it's great fun and I'd highly recommend

The best quiz in Belfast - Aidan’s quiz on a Thursday night in the Northern Lights!! 🌭

Awesome little bar on the Ormeau with great selection of beers and food! Thriving mid-week games nights draw a more mature regular crowd upstairs while tasty pints coupled with warm conversation downstairs makes it hard to beat and fairly unique. Barstaff very friendly and welcoming. Seems to be going from strength to strength, fast becoming trendy and growing in popularity, even spotted a local politician last week! Fun and Different, draws a wide crowd, definately for the beer enthusiasts and conversation lovers

Northern Lights is a brilliant bar with great staff, particularly love bingo and quizzes with Aidan which are great craic!

Food was good but large portions. Staff were initially friendly and happy to serve. However, one member of staff had a foul attitude when serving, slamming the card machine when I said I owed more money for past orders. Attitude like that would make me not want to go back.

Great Charity quiz by Quizmaster Aidan

Always a great atmosphere upon arrival with a relaxed, comfortable vibe. Kid and dog friendly bar. Excellent food overall. Beer options are terrific. Food and drink reasonably priced. Wine, cocktails, and non alcoholic drinks are available too. Staff are very friendly, knowledgeable, and work so well as a team.

I used to really like this place, a lot. But more recently I go here less and less. One annoying issue is they seek Guinness but never have it, it’s very odd. They also are doing less interesting stuff with their beers, less double IPAs and general variety, and this used to be their USP. Food now is also very expensive. £20+ for chicken and chips for example. Vegetarian options really poor too for bar bites. It’s unfortunate that things are clearly slipping. Hopefully they can get back k to where they used to be.

Use to be a good bar full of plesent staff and excellent beer, recently it's just full of very rude staff. Only good part was when we left. The only reason I didn't leave a 1 star is my food was alright.

I'm not into craft beers but I had a lovely Belgain ale produced by Ormeau Brewery which was very tasty...and I understood they didn't serve Arthur's Guinness but someone told me afterwards that they do serve Arthur's Guinness so I will have to try that next time I'm in.

DISASTER BOOKED.UPSTAIRS for 35 PEOPLE NOT EVEN A BARMAN!!!!! Had to leave asap

Love the pub quiz on Thursdays, such good craic xx

Thursday night quiz is the best!

Thursday night quiz is fab! Quizmaster Aidan knows the craic!

Quick service, loved the cocktails…

Our local! Staff brilliant! Food overpriced

There are some really good beers here and the cost is probably fair for what you get.

Pretty decent food and service, relaxed atmosphere, but you're really here for the craft beer 🍻 - which was lovely.... If I was visiting longer I'd be here regularly

A Galway bay pub, situated a fair way out of the centre (easy to reach via bus though, No.6c or any 7). Big range of Galway Bay beers and guests (UK and Irish). it's a big old place, sort of converted industrial style, which you'll either like or not, I quite like it. Definitely one of the best beer ranges in town, although there's not much else round here craft beer wise with the Errigle being the other obvious choice.

Great food and bar service tonight from the Northern Lights team, and in particular Aidan was fantastic - very friendly and provided exceptional customer service. We are also big fan of his quizzes!

Absolutely fabulous place for food and drinks on Ormeau Road, and the prices are really reasonable too! My friends and I were going to Ormeau Park for a concert last night and wanted dinner before heading to the gig. We went to Northern Lights and got an incredible meal. The menu is fantastically curated, loads of options available. I ordered the burger and fries with cheese and bacon, and everything arrived fresh and piping hot, and tasting delicious! Another of our party ordered the chili, which came with rice and tortilla and was so warming and tasty. The chicken wings were absolutely unreal, so flavoursome and such good quality. There were 10 of us there last night and not one of us had a bad word to say about our meals! I'll definitely be making a return visit here soon!!

Great alternative for those who appreciate good beer and conversation. There's always a good range of beers on tap, with a mix of regular and guest beers to keep things interesting. The food menu isn't huge but caters for most tastes, is served in comfort-sized portions and has always been unfailingly delicious!

Such a class bar, really great food, great service - Aidan especially ... My recommendation is to try drinking all twenty beers on tap at once. 10/10

Great spot. Drinks are top class, both pulled pints and cocktails. What more do you need

There is an extremely rude barman who shouted and scolded me for closing the front door last Saturday. A few others were cold as they tried to close it too but we were verbally attacked due to ‘smoke coming from the kitchen’. Do they not have ventilation there? The bar manager sort of apologised but defended the barman for his behaviour. He said it just needed to be left open for 15 minutes but we had been there for over an hour. Attitude issues! Won’t be back.

James tries his absolute utmost and is a pleasure to be served by, but the young male barman with the beard and ponytail is rude and agressive within earshot of me. There didn't use to be anything like that but unfortunately things have slipped and I never order food there any more. It's a great shame that young barman is allowed to drive away customers and I've read some of their reviews about how he has treated them. Shocking.

It's great Irish bar. I like Kronbakher beer with Holme fry.

Excellent quiz as always by quizman Aidan, and great food.

Had food here today and it was fantastic!

Great spot . Excellent range of craft beers . Food a service was spot on and the place had a great buzz about it.

Never been here before. Just a negative experience really. Popped in for a quick pint on way home from town because I heard they had an extensive range of beers, all being obscurily named. A barman called Yan I believe served us and I asked what his top lagers on draft were, he immediately rolled his eyes and pointed at the menu and told me to read it. I didn't know what any of the beers were so I asked for his recommendation on a beer, something not too strong, and his response was "I'm not your mother, pick your own beer" asking for any further advice I got redirected to the menu once more. I replied we'd go somewhere else for a drink. While my friend payed for his pint I noticed Yan serving another group and handing out samples of different beers? While im made to feel embarrassed for asking a barman what beers he'd recommend, won't be back.

Lovely beers, decent price for the quality and the price of the bars nearby

Good quiz on a Thursday evening

Feeling peckish so popped in with my dog after a walk. Chilli Loaded Chips were delish.

Great choice for pub food and decent prices. Nice that the place isn't dominated by sports screens. The staff are very knowledgeable about the drinks and were helpful at helping me find a lagar that I would enjoy.

Love this place, always a great atmosphere

Staff member swore when asked to make a gin a double

Lovely pub with great selection of beer, good reliable food menu and lovely staff

Didn't order any foods but craft beer was good. Family and dogs friendly. We enjoyed ourselves very much

The Galway Bay beers are the only reason to come here, often get ignored when waiting to be served whilst the staff finish their conversation behind the bar and they're almost always miserable. So yeah, if you want a decent red ale or IPA come here, just don't expect anything else good.

Good selection of IPAs and enjoyed the food.

Modern, open plan bar, loads of seating and multiple craft bars available as well as cocktails

Great bar friendly and amazing staff

Looks like a new bar with alot of space and plenty of craft beers to chose from. The building is very clean on inside. The beer hall is also dog friendly and the food is nice.

Tasty pale ale and a very nice plate of chilli. Friendly and attentive service.

Had a small meal here. So many kinds of beers looks amazing. Staff was friendly recommend different beers. The fried sweet potatoes are very good but spicy chicken wings are so so.

Casual pub atmosphere. Nice people.

Visited whilst on hols. Wannabe hipster bar, just boring really. Wouldn't go out of way to visit.

A bit quiet on the night I was there. IF you like your kraft beers this is probably the place for you .

Good vibe, weird beers but great White Russians.

Great selection of beers, with Galway Bay regulars and an incredible selection of guest beers. Nice atmosphere and friendly staff.

It’s a great bar for craft beer, with a lively, cool atmosphere and awesome staff. Unfortunately, the food really isn’t up to par, especially for its price point.

We had a table reserved for 9 for the six Nations match. Excellent craft beer. Good value food with great table service excellent staff great.

Excellent food and a pleasant pub/restaurant environment.

Really nice bar. Good beer and food. The seafood chowder is 10/10.

Was a nice spot, more info on what the beers are like would be nice as they are mostly independent/local brands

Nice craft beer bar with a good selection on tap and in the fridge. Weekends it can get rammed and gets incredibly noisy. Limited seating and the long table which is parallel to the bar makes it hard navigating your way back with drinks and dodging others on the way to the loos. Great to have a bar like this in the area ❤

Great wee night for stepsons birthday tonight food was lovely and service was first class wud definitely go back

This place is rocking, craft ale and food (I haven't tried the food but it is popular). We have been sharing ourselves in other bars so being back for the first time in a good few years is great. I live local so during the frosty period we have just had and, the lack of local transport, buses were running but very infrequent. It was great to discover that the bar is better than it was. I will be back in now I have rediscovered a wee gem of a bar. When it was the Brewbot a lot of people said it wouldn't last, thanks to Galway Bay Brewery it has lasted and will continue to do so. Busy but room to sit and chat. Drop in sometime you will not regret it.

Great beer, great atmosphere, tasty pub grub. Kid and dog friendly too.

such good service and amazing chips

Excellent selection of beverages, good background music & decent facilities. Have reduced rating by one star due to some eejit deciding to place seating at the side of the bar on a busy day forcing pedestrians to walk in the road. Totally unacceptable & unsafe. Whilst most of their staff are polite & friendly there are one or two who are incredibly rude which really let the side down, this and the fact that they decided to occupy a public footpath endangering public safety, point towards poor management. Edit. Reducing rating further as staff are mistreating customers they don't respect as much as the mummy and daddies , credit card gang. If Galway Bay is to be summed up in a bar, good job. - once beautiful, now swamped by entitled tourists, blow ins and landed gentry. Locals may not be welcome.

The place to be for craft beer in Belfast.

Lovely bar, good food. Staff are great. Prices a bit high for my liking

This is a great bar, nice atmosphere, really good choice of craft beer and food. The bar staff were really friendly and helpful. Would definitely visit again.

Fantastic, warm, friendly bar with craft beers which served as a perfect place to catch up with folks post work for a few beers. Quirky, unconventional & really.

Great bar with a large selection of beers and spirits. Really great vibes for all who attend, no matter when you go always a good group of people. Would recommend if anyone was looking for a new watering spot.

Great to see a bar on this site finally doing well. Northern Lights is really well run, the staff are fantastic & the place has a really good atmosphere.

Great food and selection of craft beers. Good music and atmosphere. Best of all dog friendly.

We'd wanted to call in for a while as it looks like a popular place so finally visited for a few drinks on a Friday evening. It has a fun vibe and the food menu looked nice. It's dog friendly which I think is great. The drinks/bar service is good and they have a range of IPAs if you like that. Will definitely return for dinner some time soon.

Beautiful Sunday roast dinner properly cooked and well priced.

Fantastic selection of beers with knowledgeable staff. Layout is dominated by the central beer hall like table. But there are plenty of smaller tables too. Plenty of games available the same as sister pub Against the grain.

This place is awesome!! Great service, great food, great prices and atmosphere. I keep going back.

Will definitely be back here. Friendly, helpful staff, & new beers to try? Win, win!!

Nice food nice staff and craft beers what's not to like

Food of decent quality and good selection of beers.

Great craft beers, relaxed atmosphere, dogs allowed. I would recommend "Off the Hook"

Tasty food and top beers to swill it down

Great beers. Might now be the best bar on the ormeau

Galway brewery pub. Interesting ales. Popular place. Worth a visit

Galway Breweries first outlet in Belfast and a superb collection of ales were on with prices over £5 per pint. But quality shines through

Nice place for few drinks and food

Great selection of craft ales. Friendly and efficient staff

A great pub for lovers of craft beers. Good range of products and very helpful friendly staff.

Excellent choice of beer, possibly the best in Belfast. Fantastic food as well.

Food was very good. Craft beer was also good but too many of the beers out.

Very nice had lovely soup and bread

What other beers could you ask for, are probably not worth trying? Spoilt for choice at this wee gem. Food is good to. Tip the staff yeoooo

Nice pub with really good food. Second visit and we had chicken and chorizo linguine fabulous!. Reasonably priced. Two meals, 2 cocktails and pint of beer and cider £51. Staff really friendly and helpful. I forgot to leave a tip so apologies to the staff. Nice atmosphere. Well worth a visit.

Great atmosphere, amazing staff and superb food and drinks. Couldn’t ask for more!

I love this place. Superb beer selection for craft drinkers and decent food at a reasonable price.

Nice staff. Brilliant beer and place

20 options on tap 1 stout 1 nearly ale All the rest lager Average price approx £5.40 A handful of decent real ales wouldn't go amiss