Dining
Beatrice Kennedy – Serving modern cuisine, expect to find deliciously surprising food combinations. While the regularly changing menu features a choice of seafood dishes, Beatrice Kennedy also offers a selection of beef, pork, chicken, duck or game to provide a balanced menu
Bourbon – Bourbon boasts the style of New Orleans, with its heady blend of English, French and Spanish colonial architecture with cagean and Polynesian influences. The emphesis is on fresh food, simple but delicious dishes, fusion influenced, with big flavour. The menu ranges from the freshest of seafood to 100% Northern Ireland Dry Aged Beef
Cayenne – The Asian- influenced menu is always innovative and rarely disappoints. The dark wood interior is lit in amber and the pale walls are etched with culinary prose. Although the haunt of the city’s self-styled gastronomes, don’t let its potential air of intimidation put you off….. the award winning food is surprisingly affordable.
Coco – COCO offers beautiful food, locally sourced and cooked to perfection, food that will give you a hug and keep you coming back for more. Sparkling in the background, the glitter ball sets the ambiance in the funky bar where the music grows and the unique atmosphere of COCO encourages you to chill and relax after dinner to complete the COCO experience.
Deanes – Bare lightbulbs dangle contemporary- art style from the ceiling as cool diners enjoy the minimalist ambience and expected fine dining a la Deane. The attention to detail dishes featuring locally sourced produce are exquisitely prepared.
Ginger Bistro – Locally sourced food is served with an imaginative twist and meticulous attention to detail at this casual bistro where chef Simon McCance’s ever changing menu and meet the crows congeniality makes for a refreshingly unstuffy atmosphere.
Gingeroot – Dine on delectable Northern Indian tandoori-cooked cuisine as you sing along to Bollywood movies. Gingeroot’s food and spices are all freshly prepared and the family owned establishment takes pride in their menu and personal service
Harbour View – Elegant and rich surroundings with breathtaking views over the harbour to the ‘new’ Belfast are a magnificent setting for your dining delight. The choice of menu with fantastic Japanese Sushi and Teppanyaki dishes are cooked and served for you by some of the most experienced chefs in Belfast. Our extensive wine list and drinks menu makes your visit complete.
James St South – The 19th Century converted warehouse façade belies a strikingly clean and airy white interior broken up by a fine selection of contemporary Irish art. Indulge in an international menu offering the finest selection of food locals have come to demand at this level.
Mourne Seafood Bar – This extremely popular eatery serves locally sourced mussels, oysters, langoustines and lots of other marine morsels in a cool and unforced atmosphere. Food is cooked traditional style or with a continental or Asian twist. If fish aren’t your thing, the restaurant also offers prime rib eye steak and vegetarian options
Porterhouse – Carnivores can sink their teeth into big, succulent steaks at the city’s latest restaurant that prides itself on serving the best cuts in town. The owner is a butcher who chooses the highest grade beef from locally reared steers. And don’t worry if you’ve got a vegetarian in your company, there’s also a vegetarian menu as well as chicken and seafood dishes.
Shu – One of the most up market restaurants in town. The impeccably attired waiting staff, exquisitely prepared fusion food and contempary interior attract a discerning clientele.
Tedfords – Exceptional seafood restaurant- Inventive fish dishes such as curry roast monkfish and grilled sea bass with crab and chive mash. For the non fish lovers Irish Angus Beef and a range of other meaty delights
Villa Italia – While sitting under trellises of succulent grapes, surrounded by murals of Italian countryside, terracotta tiles, the subtle smell of garlic in the air and even Italian speaking waiters amongst the staff, one cannot help but feel transported to La Bella Italia itself!
Zen – Likened to a James Bond set, Japanese restaurant Zen is a phenomenal addition to the city’s cuisine scene. Inside there’s a cocktail bar, wall of glistening water and gilded lilies, ultra violet stairway and sunken ‘ta-tammi’ dining area.
