The capital’s culinary landscape is studded with hidden gems of restaurants, offering you a tour of the cuisine world without even leaving Northern Ireland.
13. Deerah
The owner of this Cathedral Quarter restaurant, at the top of Royal Avenue, is passionate about delivering food of the highest order, prepared with the finest fresh ingredients.
Including authentic Lebanese shawarma wraps and charcoal-grilled lamb meshwi alongside more traditional pizzas, this stands as one of the premier Lebanese eateries in Belfast.
14. Umi Falafel
There’s a reason that ‘Umi’ is the Arabic word for ‘my mother’, because this Botanic Avenue restaurant works as hard to provide high-end food as your mother would. Their falafel mix is prepared for you every morning, with 14 magic ingredients to create that ‘y-umi goodness’. All their sauces are freshly made daily in-house, as is their bread and pickles, sauces and salads. All these dishes are made according to a family authentic recipe and chopped fresh throughout the day in their pure veg kitchen. They have also been placed on TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence every year since 2014, along with their Travellers’ Choice Award 2020/2021.
15. Mumbai 27
In the heart of the Cathedral Quarter, Mumbai 27 only uses the best and freshest local ingredients with no artificial colours or preservatives in sight. Having trained in the best restaurants in Mumbai, head chef Ripon Biswas puts his experience to good use, and fuses homemade recipes with well known classics to create one of the most unique menus in Belfast.
16. India Gate Belfast
This Indian restaurant balances flavour, texture and colour, to create a sumptuous symphony of senses, with meticulous presentation. If cuisine is an art, then these chefs have mastered it. What makes India Gate so exquisite is the combination of elegant and simplistic cooking style and the sophisticated use of spices and herbs.