Northern Ireland

Global Kitchens in Northern Ireland

Belfast's world-food scene, from the Newtownards Road to the city centre.

Belfast's food culture has diversified fast. These are the restaurants and cafés bringing global flavours to a city that's been quietly building one of the UK's most interesting food scenes.

5 places

Tete Wyn African Restaurant

£12–£22

East Belfast · Belfast

Proper West African home cooking on the Newtownards Road, jollof rice, goat curry, and okra soup made without shortcuts.

Mama Bobo Restaurant

£10–£20

South Belfast · Belfast

Nigerian home cooking on the Ormeau Road, egusi soup, jollof rice, and moi moi that tastes like it was made with someone specific in mind.

Malibu Grill

£13–£25

City Centre · Belfast

Afro-Caribbean and West African fusion in the city centre, jerk chicken, grilled tilapia, and waakye on the same menu, done properly.

Yetunde's Kitchen

£8–£16

West Belfast · Belfast

West Belfast's word-of-mouth Nigerian takeaway, pepper soup, egusi, and fried plantain with no frills and no compromises on flavour.

Orisha Belfast

£12–£25

City Centre · Belfast

Afrobeats, dancehall, R&B, and Afro-Caribbean cocktails in the city centre. Belfast's most distinctive bar for the Black community.

Belfast's African and Caribbean food scene is smaller than London or Manchester, but it's real, and it's mostly Black-owned. These are the restaurants and bars built by and for the community, not branded-up versions of it. The food here is the real thing: smoky jollof, properly seasoned pepper soup, tilapia that's actually been grilled. The kitchens are concentrated around Ormeau Road and Clifton Street, and the best of them have loyal regulars who've been going for years. This is where to start.

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