Belfast Restaurants

  1. An Caife

    If you're exploring West Belfast, drop in to the café in this Irish language and arts centre for some good home-cooked food - the menu includes stews, soups, pizzas, cakes, scones and fresh pastries.

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  2. Bookfinders Cafe

    Part of the laudable trend to combine book-buying with eating, Bookfinders Cafe is found at the back of the stacks and serves up a menu of simple, tasty lunch dishes to a public ravening from the effort of tracking down Behan and Synge. It's well known for its repertoire of 40 soups, which are large on taste and small on price.

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  3. Café Paul Rankin

    Owned by Northern Ireland's best-known celebrity chef, this café has comfy benches and sofas for lounging on, and serves quality coffee, cakes, focaccias, soups, pastas and salads.

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  4. Maggie May's

    This is a homely little café with two rows of cosy wooden booths, colourful murals of old Belfast, and a host of hungover students wolfing down huge Ulster fries at lunchtime. The all-day breakfast menu runs from tea and toast to pancakes and maple syrup, while lunch can be soup and a sarnie or steak-and-Guinness pie; puddings include Dime Bar and sticky toffee. BYOB.

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  5. Other Place

    This is another student favourite where you can linger over the Sunday papers amid red brick, orange pine and antique objets, or damp down a rising hangover with big plates of lasagne, cajun pitta or home-made hamburgers. Breakfast served till .

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  6. Oxford Exchange

    Smart and stylish with bare pine floors, chocolate brown chairs, white linen napkins and a yellow tulip on each table, the Oxford has breezy charm and a menu of high-end comfort food - try the beer-battered cod with mushy peas, and chunky chips served in a twist of newspaper.

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