Belfast Restaurants

  1. Beatrice Kennedy's

    This is where Queen's students take their parents for a smart dinner. It offers a candle-lit Edwardian drawing-room décor of burgundy, bottle green and bare red brick, with polished floorboards, starched white linen, and brown leather chairs, and a simple menu of superb cuisine, including home-made bread and ice cream. Enjoy dishes such as smoked trout and crab tart, and roast monkfish with butternut squash purée and fennel.

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  2. Café Conor

    Set in the glass-roofed former studio of William Conor, a Belfast artist, this is a laid-back bistro with a light and airy dining area dominated by a portrait of Conor himself. The menu offers a range of pastas, salads, burgers and stir fries, along with Irish favourites such as sausage and champ with onion gravy. The breakfast menu, which includes waffles with bacon and maple syrup, is served till noon on weekdays and till at weekends.

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  3. Deane's Restaurant

    Chef Michael Deane heads the kitchen in Northern Ireland's only Michelin-starred restaurant, where he takes the best of Irish and British produce - beef, game, lamb, seafood - and gives it the gourmet treatment. Typical dishes include pan-fried scallops with pickled carrots, watercress purée and orange vinaigrette, and rack of venison with baked potato purée, red cabbage marmalade and spiced pear confit .

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