The best restaurants in Belfast

A real throw back in a good way, inside very classic old school chip shop. Everything freshly prepared and cooked in front of you. Go early as they sell out towards the end of the day!

This restaurant was recommended by a local we happened to befriend and glad we followed his advice. The food and service were excellent! We happened to eat there on a Sunday and was able to use their "special" Sunday menu. Nice atmosphere and delicious meal. Recommended big time!

Always go here. Great staff - very attentive and friendly. Lovely food . Very reasonable . Ideal for lunch , dinner and weekend breakfast.🥰

Beautiful food, friendly staff, relaxed and warm atmosphere and reasonably priced based on their 1988 lunch menu. From the outset we felt welcomed. We booked shortly before the lunch hour and explained to the waiting staff that we had an appointment to attend in an hour. They were extremely prompt with our food which didn’t lack quality as a result of speed. We had the salted cod croquettes with a zesty dip, followed by the deliciously smooth chicken liver parfait and creamy mussels starters. We chose the roast squash and whipped ricotta for one and the mushroom pappardelle for the other main course. Due to their efficient delivery of each course there was even time for a dessert which was perfectly wobbly panacotta. There was a group of elderly people accumulating, each one drifting in a few minutes apart from the previous person. They all sat together and immediately engaged in easy banter with lots of laughs. They weren’t noisy but added to the feeling of this being a community restaurant. Having visited Shu years before I felt this recent visit delivered a new vibrancy to the atmosphere and the food. There was delight in the flavours of the food. Doing the simply things well. EVERYTHING was delicious and we would highly recommend a visit.

As good as Thai food gets and they are smashing this out in Belfast. Prawn toast banging, Som Tam next level, Krua King the one. You won’t regret it, hits it every time. Sit on or takeaway. I’d drive 50 miles to get in on this.

I had a lovely birthday meal at James St. the other day. We were made to feel very welcome from the moment we arrived and the manager Chris went out of his way to give us a great experience and some great recommendations. Nice to have a good veggie offering also. Will definitely return in future

A most enjoyable evening meal as always. Thank you 😊

A lovely meal in a fantastic room with friendly and efficient service.

Authentic Indian food which was gorgeous.

We went to the Merchant Hotel for a pre dinner birthday drink as a treat around 4.30pm our dinner was booked for 5.15pm. Our table had the reminants of the previous party, empty glasses and half eaten nibbles. A waiter came and took our order but didn't bother to clear or clean the table. He then took an order for a couple beside us. The couple beside us were swiftly served a pot of tea with nibbles and glasses of water. At 5.05pm I went to the bar area and advised we haven't received our order and we were ready to leave. The drinks arrived at 5.10pm delivered to the drink stained table which we literally had to drink in one go as we were going to be late for our meal and over £30 worse off! Lots of suited staff walking back and forwards looking important but not really doing very much. Maybe when you see customers looking around for assistance you might want to try and help. Service appalling for a Saturday afternoon, dread to think what the evening service is like! Disappointing start to a birthday celebration.

Very disappointing service and absolutely outrageous prices. Arrived for pre dinner drinks. As in any upmarket hotel anywhere in Ireland thought it reasonable to order a pint of Guinness and a cocktail. No draught Guinness so was offered a can instead. Politely declined. Ordered a bottle of Peroni and a cocktail. Peroni arrived about 5 minutes later, no bottle, already poured and flat. No sign of cocktail. It didn’t arrive until 15 minutes later. Cocktail was small and lacked flavour. Beer was already consumed at this stage as it was already close to flat on arrival. Very expensive, poor quality and poor and very slow service. To add to our woes incredibly a service charge of 10% was added. This is nothing more than a rip off and smacks of utterly complacent management at The Merchant. Belfast is nice but one of its apparently leading hotels simply can’t afford to systematically rip people off like this. We complained on check out as constructively as we could and the receptionist was gracious and professional in her approach. However we have no sense that there’s any chance of things changing and we will be studiously avoiding The Merchant in future.

Tribals food was amazing I had a peppered stack burger which was great good bun a chicken fillet and a quarter pounder burger with pepper sauce and an onion ring ! Juicy burger with a crisp and tasty chicken fillet, massive portion and almost too much to finish!! My lunch companion had the pulled pork fries again they were very good well worth a visit good quick and pleasant service 5* !!

Food was not good and one of the diners found a hair in her rice. Will not be back. There are plenty of better options in Belfast.

We always get the 24" pizza. Food is really good and the staff is really friendly Little wings is always our first choice for pizza, we like it so much. Less expensive than other pizza places

Great place to stop by for a drink and snack. We had the Irish coffee, Baileys coffee and Strawberry Lime Cider (alcohol free). We did not have food, but passed us looked and smelled great. Please tip Stuart so his kids can eat!