Whites in Belfast

Had light lunch and a few drink in Whites yesterday with a friend. The staff were excellent especially Dylan and the waiter working along side her. Very helpful and really friendly. The food was good- will go for main course next time and the ambience was nice even though it was a quiet Wednesday afternoon. Went next door to the Guinness bar which serves Guinness cocktails. Had an excellent glass of the black stuff served by a really polite smiling Simona. Will definitely be back in fact have already booked for next week! Thank you again to all staff. Def a place to visit on your next trip to Belfast

Tasty lunch food. The pints of Guinness are some of the best around. Love the Guinness only bar.

Great alley pub -- drinks, food, and exemplary vibes.

Packed and charming place. Very nice traditional belfast pub

Amazing atmosphere for a Saturday afternoon!

Stopped here on a bar crawl. Best of the bunch. Great atmosphere, good music.

I only went for a guinness as i was told at the free tour that they serve the best guinness in the world. I'll have to try more to confirm! But I really enjoyed my drink. 🍀 But finally I also had the whites burger. I had to wait for a long time but it was worth the time. 😊 Stuff was very attentive. All the time checking if I wanted anything else. Live music was amazing. 😍 Very friendly people and atmosphere. Ohh, and someone asked for a guinness and left, so instead of throwing it away I was offered for free 🙌🏾

Great place, amazing atmosphere!

Loved the place. It has a really good atmosphere. Staff were great too!

Great atmosphere,, but the service here was awful

Lovely setting, staff excellent, Chris in particular! Food was great

Another must visit pub. A place to have a good chat, a perfect pint of Guinness and to soak up the relaxed atmosphere of Belfast city. It's unlikely you'll leave without first having a great chat and laughs with someone you'll just happen to have say next to.

Great place for a snack and a pint. Friendly staff and great Irish music being played. Lovely open range gire

One of my fav pubs in Belfast. Good atmosphere and often a good session on the go. Great Guinness

V nice pub We don t eat but i see v nice food arround

Great atmosphere and pints are on point.

Lovely olde worlde pub with a real fire making a cosy atmosphere. Food was excellent

Feels like a step back in time -- definitely a fun pub to head to as a tourist. The fire makes it a perfect cozy spot on these bleak winter days. But what's the story with the boots on the ceiling??

Loved visiting Whites. we had a really good time and tasted the best Guinness in life. Atmo .There is a good atmosphere one of friendliness and joyfulness as the pub generally attracts lots of tourists. I would like to thank the bartender he was amazing and friendly. I Would highly recommend anyone to visit WHITES ❤️

My favourite bar in Belfast ruined by terrible bar staff. It must be a lack of training or new staff and can be fixed but wearing a queen's university hoody while working behind the middle bar and having such terrible behaviour reflects poorly on the bar and the university.

First class evening spent with some friends from work, enjoying some pints and a great selection of whiskies!

Although I’d heard great things about the food, we went on a quiet enough day before Christmas and received cold, mediocre food. Service was fantastic though, staff couldn’t have been friendlier.

Was just in this place just finish my meal which was nice but the waitress CAME TO ME with the bill as a paying customer the customer should ask for the bill not the other way around

The Guinness bar is unique in its idiosyncratic brilliance. Great chilled space with lovely staff. We were served by Zara. Sage beyond her time. Excellent customer service 👏

Had a few quiet drinks here on our final day, lovely atmosphere and great service. Ordered the 3 starters for £16 but did think the portion sizes were a tad small for the price. It is very nice though, especially the old section further round the corner, takes you back in time.

Absolutely 10/10 food was amazing. Staff particularly Viktoria was just superb really made our day with how great craic she was. Atmosphere was class. Definitely recommended a visit here 👌 🥂

Good drinks. Good ambience but no Wifi - c'mon this is year 2024 and they don't have wifi....

Staff were friendly and efficient

Not often I get here but always a stop for me when in Belfast

Loved it! We've been every day of our five day holiday. There's a real fire, live music, and the food is superb! We had the Irish stew, sausage and mash, and the turkey and ham dinner. Everything was spot on, and good sized portions. The bar staff are friendly, and quickly learn what you're drinking, which helps avoid queuing. It's a small space, and you have to have eyes of a rat to spot someone leaving so you can grab their table, if you're staying to eat. It's a really good ambience and totally enjoyable.

The Irish Stew was the best I've had.

Great pub. Had an old style wooden décor. Huge interior. Friendly efficient staff.

I was on a return visit to Belfast and wanted to experience one of the Belfast entry pubs, so decided to try Whites. It was 2.55pm and I asked the purple haired bar maid if we could order food. She told me they didn't do food orders after 4pm. I said ok, but showed her my watch and said it was nearly 3pm. She stumbled at that and then fobbed me off and said the table I was sitting on was reserved for other people at 5pm. Told me because of that reservation I couldn't order food. Complete nonsense and it made no sense. So we left and went to another Belfast pub and had a brilliant night. However, that experience of poor customer service made me post this poor review. So I would not recommend a visit to Whites as it is definitely not a true reflection of Belfast hospitality.

We had our Christmas Dinner at whites this evening and it was nothing short of a joke. Seated at a tiny table 3 feet from the bar on the busiest day of the year booking despite ordering well over a month in advance. This obviosuly lead to people constantly banging into us while trying to eat with drunkards disturbing us. We arrived and they had no idea of our booking, no idea of what we ordered and the waitress (who was phenomenal on the night) had to pick up the slack. Management clearly messed up here. Our table was thrown together at 630 when we sat down, and didn't get our starters for 45 minutes, at this point we contemplated leaving, and the mains coming out at 830. The food being the only thing that saved the evening so credit to the chefs. Nothing on the bill was comped, no apology given. If you are planning a christmas dinner I would strongly advise against whites. (Again credit to the server, she was ran off her feet making the most out of a bad situation)

Fantastic bar with good seating. Never had the food but I hear its decent

Turkey and ham dinner was horrible and barely warm for £19. Very disappointed

Nice place with a great atmosphere but we couldn’t get near the bar to get served! It was the 16th Dec so understandably busy.

On a visit to Belfast we always go into Whites Tavern for Dinner great foo

Went on a recommendation, wish we hadn't. Ordered 2 mains - Chicken pie and Fish n chips. Very tiny pieces of chicken in a cream sauce with 2 squares of puff pastry on top, cold veg, chips. Other meal very heavily battered (raw inside, inedible ) fish, chips, teaspoon of mushy peas, salad, (which fish was sat on, therefore hot and limp). No one cleared plates away, even though they were constantly walking past!! Went to bar (8.50pm) to order a dessert (previously waitress had recommended some) only to be told "kitchen closed" at 8.55pm. Only kitchen porter left. Explained all to waitress who said she'd mention our concerns, no further contact, so we left, never to return. Not a good experience

As a tourist on his last day in the city it was a welcome visit to the tavern. The Irish Stew seemed to keep filling itself up, sadly the Guinness didn't do the same! Three of us for food and drinks and a very reasonable tab at the end made for a pleasant visit. I'm sure I'll be back.

Great food. Great atmosphere and great service.

Average, service was very slow but did have an OK atmosphere.

Perfect place for Christmas dinner..i really enjoyed there..fabulous..

Full of Christmas atmosphere. Big roaring fire & lights everywhere. Staff were so good even under extreme pressure. They could not do enough for us.

Hello Whites Tavern, please reply to my emails or my Facebook post in which I've tagged yourselves in before I leave a review about all your lies, accusations & a certain member of your staff which we spoke about before bein ushered out of your premises as you could not answer any of my questions/inquiries. Many thanks Fintan

Don't sit at the bar with the pumps as the roof leaks.

Excellent meal , all courses. Staff service excellent

At a Sponsorship end of year party here. Finger food and a few drinks. Great place.

It's a nice place, but it does just justify the price of drinks. This is especially true given how many people are present Thur-Saturday.

Nice pub good craic , the people were really nice

Slow service at the bar and some staff weren’t very helpful when we asked to move some seats for a large group. But the bar itself is stunning with a lovely atmosphere around the fire. Great guiness too.

Foid was great Staff great Atmosphere good

We visited White's on our little pub crawl this Wednesday evening... There was a great atmosphere for a mid week night, a roaring fire and great service at the bar. We had the sausage and mash with parsnip crisps - this meal really shows the high quality cooking and attention to food detail as there's no where to hide on such a simple dish. The gravy was perfect, with a consistency that can be picked up with your knife! We'd definitely return, thanks everyone🔥🔥🔥

Great bar decent pint, lovely bar staff

Amazing seeing the history on the walls..also has great beers!!!

What an amazing place. What I loved was the atmosphere and the way you could feel the history.

The nicest Guinness pint! Plenty of time to settle!

This is one of Belfast's oldest bars, I believe and can be very busy at times. We visited between 2-5pm and it wasn't too bad. The fire was very comforting on a cold November day. I only gave 4/5 for service as there were only two staff for most of our visit and they were busy.

Went to Whites on a Saturday afternoon with a friend. First time seeing new decor and place looks great. Had lunch and the food was lovely. Had a lovely afternoon and all the staff were friendly and approachable. Did ask a couple of staff their names for a special mention cos they were under pressure on this busy Saturday afternoon but were so pleasant and helpful the whole time so big thanks to Ethan, Thomas and Victoria who helped make it a lovely visit to whites. Will definitely be back.

The staff were so helpful and lovely. Service was quick and the food was delicious. Highly recommend.

Visited for the first time yesterday. Experienced fabulous service from our waiter, and he made a great recommendations. I had the seabass and my friend had the chowder, we both thoroughly enjoyed our meals. The mulled wine was good to.

Great spot for food it looked great on this occasion I was there for a drink . Great atmosphere and great Guinness

Great atmosphere, didn't stay fjr food just a few drinks. Bar staff very friendly and Lovely real fire blazing.

Food was beautiful staff were great and attentive my second time there and will be my go to place for food and a pint in Belfast

An authentic Irish Pub experience, complete with Irish music on Monday nights. Highly recommended!

Go to the very back, the old wine cellar with an open fire is great

The perfect place to have a Guinness.

Beautiful old place with great atmosphere and an open fire. Highly recommended

Haven't been here for a while but really pleased to see it has survived COVID and hasn't changed a bit. The fire was roaring and the Guinness was as good as ever. My wife had the Buttermilk Chicken starter with fries as a main course and I had the Irish Stew though I think it should be renamed Belfast Stew. It was served with fresh wheaten bread and butter and was wonderful. Will definitely be back.

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Amazing food salmon darnes I had tonight server was lovely great craic highly recommended

Local bom, porém com muito mau atendimento, pena pois é um local muito antigo, acho que não são mais os mesmos que antecederam tanto tempo na história .

Not my first time here and won’t be last! Fish and chips were great and the Guiness perfectly poured! Enjoy it inside and out, neither disappoint!

The inside of this tavern is like stepping back in time. A lovely place to enjoy a few pints with friends. There was a fire in the fireplace which added to the cozy atmosphere. The live music was a nice touch. We had a meal, there is a decent menu but remember to book your table or you definitely won't get one.

Fab place and reasonably priced

Had to wait a while to get served in the new bar. Then, caught on, it was quicker to go threw to the next door older bar to get served as it wasn't as busy and had staff doing nothing. Placement delegation of bar staff needs to be addressed, but a good atmosphere.

Amazing bar staff, super attentive, and on the ball as this wee bar is always busy .

Great bar revamped and extended in 2019.In four parts the old main pub ( oldest in Belfast 1160) entrance down 'Wine Cellar Alley' .Then outdoor/indoor beer garden , the beer hall ,and White's Store the only all Guinness pub in the world, which are all connected inside .However the latter three have their entrances on High Street .They also have seating outside the main pub in the yard outside in Wine Cellar Alley.We have had food here which is always nice .Usually go for a few drinks and the craic , the Guinness is good , great atmosphere , friendly staff .If you're going for food i recommend prebooking a table .

Great place ,would definitely go again

We had a seafood chowder and it was pretty nice! It just took a little bit more than normal to arrive to the table. The environment is great.

Good food good music good people

Very nice pub, extremely friendly employees! The food was good and fast, no problem in accomodating a small change... Great music, too.

Guiness at whites tavern is top notch

Dirty tables, slow service at the bar, way too crowded, not cosy

Was just there for drinks, but good spot

We have ordered the seafood chower, the 10oz ribeye, and the stew. The ribeye is well cooked and served with fresh fries and tomatoes. The seafood chowder is superb delicious, but the Irish stew is not very good. It is the oldest tavern in Belfast that is established in 1630. Many others order a pint of Guinness, and listen to the music in such a historic place and enjoy the atmosphere.

Great pub with Live music and Sky Sports.

Food is always great 👍 service is great always never here at night aloth I was turned away a few times because I was wearing tracksuit lol

Stopped for a pint great atmosphere

Nice Pub, just a bit loud the music sometime.

Tried the Guinness in the Guinness room........ £7 for a see through pint, dead, flat and just plain disgusting! Will not be back!

14/10/2023 There are three parts the Olde pub with a fire, very cosy, a big resturant bar where the loos are and a kind of rustic outdoor covered bar. Very busy, best to book. Great Guiness and sharing plates in the bar. Nice friendly helpful staff.

I cannot describe how amazing this bar is! When travelling I normally never visit anywhere twice as I want to use my time to see more, but I have been here 2 days in a row and I tend to come back tomorrow too. You won’t regret visiting this bar. Food is so comforting and tasty and people are welcoming and sooo friendly!! Please don’t miss this place if you come to Belfast, this is a must!!!

A brief visit with a good friend this afternoon. Very welcoming atmosphere. Staff are very friendly and professional - they also pour a great Guinness, so top marks there. The facilities for the ladies are well maintained too which is a total plus point for a business in the centre of the city. Well done all round. We will definitely be back 😊

We booked to pour our own Guinness while we were over and the staff were so friendly! The staff let us repour our pints as we had an issue with our first one but could not fault them they were lovely about it and we had a great time - definitely recommend!

I guess this is the new part of whites. It has a copy restarant bar inside, or sit outside and people watch. We went during the week it was quite. Didn't buy any food. Bar service was great.

Disappointing. So sad I spent my first and only evening in Belfast here. Read the review of the place before we got in and I was hyped. First we had to wait for almost 30 minutes before got to table since they only had ‘1’ staff to take care of the whole place (old pub part), probably 30 guests in there. That poor guy was running around like crazy but still had a smile on his face (bravo to that!). Food wise, at first it looks great but they were bland. At the end we ordered toffee pudding and hoping it would help justify our meal. But nah. The pudding is dense. Toffee sauce tasted like it was from a store bought bottle. The ice cream was icy. Even the place was packed (old pub part) but the atmosphere is not there at all. It’s quiet, not an Irish pub atmosphere you would expect it to be. In summary, I really admire that only staff. The venue looked awesome. Guinness was great as always.

Absolutely the best pub in Belfast, my first stop! Three sections to it, beer garden type, lounge type and snug, such a great vibe! Staff are amazing, so tentative and friendly

Loved the atmosphere. Guiness was fab and staff were excellent. Halloween Dec's 🎃 were fab, and it's the oldest pub in Belfast

It was okay. Specially when they're not having Budwiser. That's a common drink. And finding place to sit there on a weekend it tough.