Where to eat in Belfast
17 independent restaurants, bakeries and food spots in Belfast. Chains are left out.
Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.
Where to eat in Belfast
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Bright's Restaurant
Old style breakfast and lunch, and traditional ambiance right down to the biddy brushing under your table as you're trying to eat.
Mon-Sat 9AM-4PM, Sun 11AM-4PM
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Darcy's
Large servings of Belfast cuisine in an old-fashioned candlelit ambiance. Excellent vegan/vegetarian menu.
Mon-Thu 5-9PM, Fri-Sun noon-9PM
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Doorsteps
Stonking great sandwiches (hence the name) and trad meals, you'll need a hearty appetite.
Mon-Sat 8:30AM-3PM
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Lee Garden
Reliably good place, especially good value for lunch and dim sum.
Daily noon-10PM
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Little Wing Pizzeria
Slick friendly place serves pizza Napoli-style. Also has branches on Lisburn Rd and Upper Newtownards Rd.
Mon-Sat noon-10PM, Sun noon-9PM
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Scalini
Excellent pizzeria and trattoria near QUB, they make sure you realise they're Italian.
Tue-Thu 5-10PM, Fri-Sun 4-10PM
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Established Coffee
Light meals and coffee, with much connoisseur-type folderol over which coffee beans to grind.
Daily 8AM-4:30PM
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Little Italy
There when you need it - pizza takeaway behind Crown Bar opposite the bus and railway station.
Sun-Thu 5PM-midnight, Fri Sat 5PM-1:30AM
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Maggie Mays
Traditionally this is where you rock up with a hangover, for colossal servings of Ulster breakfast - bacon, sausage, egg, fried bread, soda bread, and anything else cardiologically rash. But maybe times are changing, they can even cater for vegans.
Mon-Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun 10AM-5PM
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Archana
Good Indian restaurant, the lunchtime deals are great value.
Daily 5-10PM
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Great Room Restaurant
Magnificent setting, the food doesn't quite equal it.
Daily 8-10AM, noon-4PM, 6-10PM
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Muddlers Club
Michelin-starred restaurant, reservations essential.
Wed Thu 5-9:30PM, Fri Sat 12:30-1PM, 5-9:30PM
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Queen's Cafe Bar
City centre pub in the shopping arcade does good grills.
Mon-Sat 11:30AM-5PM
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Shu
Stylish modern French restaurant.
Tue-Sat noon-9:30PM, Sun 12:30-6:30PM
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The Bridge House
JD Wetherspoon
Reliable chain pub, good value food and drink.
Daily 8AM-1AM
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Boojum
Mexican chain.
Daily noon-10PM.
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Bunsen
A burger place.
daily Su-W noon-9:30PM, Th-Sa noon-10:30PM
Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Belfast (CC BY-SA 4.0).