Belfast Restaurants

  1. Archana

    A cosy and unpretentious Indian restaurant, Archana offers a good range of vegetarian dishes from its separate 'Little India' menu. The thali - a platter of three curries with rice, naan bread, pakora and dessert - is good value at around £13 / £9 for the meat/veggie version.

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  2. Café India

    A cut above your average curry house, Café India is a big, split-level barn of a place with a high, raftered ceiling and lots of varnished wood. The food is exceptionally good - we can recommend the palok chaat (spiced spinach and onion fritters) and chicken tikka achari zeera ( tandoori chicken in a tangy sauce flavoured with cumin and pickles).

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  3. Cayenne

    Behind an anonymous frosted-glass façade lurks a funky, award-winning restaurant operated by TV celebrity chef, Paul Rankin, decked out in designer black and amber and clad in conceptual art. The menu concentrates on quality Irish produce prepared with an Asian or Mediterranean twist.

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  4. Serai

    Crammed with well-heeled students gabbing over glasses of Chilean Sauv Blanc, Serai is a stylish bar-restaurant with an intriguing Asian fusion menu ranging from succulent chicken satay with salad dressed in soy sauce and sesame seeds, to stir-fried squid with lemongrass and chilli, and ikan kukus (fish steamed in banana leaf with hot-and-sour sauce).

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