The Kitchen Bar, Belfast - pub details
Address: 16 Victoria Square, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 4QA [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 4672) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
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> Current user rating: 5.7/10 (rated by 13 users)
user reviews of the Kitchen Bar, Belfast
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| Trendy looking modern bar just outside the Victoria Square shopping mall, inside it is less trendy and more down to earth. Only one ale from Whitewater on amidst a sea of formula kegs, this was Belfast Ale a rather thin and watery red ale with a slightly chocolatey taste, served very cold. Sadly as it warmed up a sour flavour was revealed. All the beer seems to be served in either a Magners, Guinness or a Carlsberg glass. Staffing was coolly efficient and the customers were a fairly average looking lot. The interior is mainly exposed brick, a neat tiled floor and with big clear windows to the street, the usual screens and machines are available, the screens being tuned to a racing channel. oldboots - 12 Oct 2009 09:09 |
| Only one beer on the handpumps during our visit - Whitewater Belfast Ale. The place was more similar to a nightclub than a pub, with the live music being so loud it gave you tinnitis. Wouldn't return in a hurry. blue_scrumpy - 21 Jun 2009 13:43 |
| Nice bar inside but ruined by the bar staff, been in with my wife a couple of times and if you don't have anything to eat they look at you as if you are an 'Alco' and look down on you........not a bar if you and your wife are just in for a drink, and I agree with a previous poster we had a meal in once and I'am sure it was all out of tins.....The Morning Star is a far better bar for a meal and a drink. Braveheart3 - 20 Feb 2009 19:11 |
| Looks and sounds like a bit of a posy place, like the Ha Ha Canteen chain on the mainland. However as I heard it was one of the few places to get real ale I gave it a go. It is primarily a kitchen bar as the name suggests with the emphasis clearly on food. Only two hand pumps and only one in use serving Clarks Brewery�s Take the Bait, which I did. It pulled up cloudy with a worrying floating sediment and was about to send it back but it smelled and tasted OK. The barman told me that�s the way it�s supposed to be, or at least that�s what the guy who delivered it told him, and that all English ales were like that. I begged to differ but being a proud Englishman and wanting to support it�s beer I even had another, neither cleared throughout and I suffered no ill effects. TV�s showing the test match on Sky but was unceremoniously turned over for racing without any thought for what customers were watching. Millay - 13 Jul 2008 21:16 |
| Modern bar typical of student-oriented Belfast pubs; had 2 pumps turned around so stuck to Guiness (not over impressed by that either). Fairly busy on a Tuesday night, no doubt helped by opening of the (amazing) Vic Square shopping development. mtaylor40 - 27 Apr 2008 18:25 |
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