Northern Whig
6 Reviews
Located in the former offices of the Northern Whig newspaper and convenient to the city's fashionable Cathedral Quarter, this is an impressive bar venue of grand proportions.
The high ceilings of the old press hall have been retained - and now look down on several gigantic statues that have been salvaged from Eastern Europe and are in keeping with the scale of the building. A long bar has comfortable contemporary seating in coffee and cream, where Belfast?s trend-setters meet for drinks or a bite to eat - or you can take a pavement table on a sunny afternoon and watch the world go by, sipping cocktails or sampling something from the reasonably priced menu. Very popular with the local business fraternity for lunch and for a relaxing drink after work - and many stay on for a bite to eat.
Seats 160 (private room 40). No smoking area; air conditioning. Toilets wheelchair accessible. Children welcome. Open 10am-1am; bar food 12-9.
Directions: From front of City Hall: walk to 2nd set of traffic lights, turn right, left at next lights; cross road - Northern Whig is on the corner.
Information and Contact Details
| Web Site | http://www.thenorthernwhig.com | |
| Category | Mixture | |
| Address | Northern Whig | |
| 2-10 Bridge Street | ||
| Belfast | ||
| BT1 1LU | ||
| Phone Number | 028 90509888 | |
| Fax Number | 028 90509880 | |
| Distance from Belfast City Hall | 0.6 |
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There now follows 6 other reviews of Northern Whig
used to visit all the time a few years ago, but now its a bot run down and service not what it sed to be, let to many rough looking people in now. wont be back
Submitted by old customer on 14/07/2008
brought my friend for something to eat for her birthday. Menu looked ok. Ordered caesar salad with seared king prawn to start - very disappointing - prawns were tasteless. Both had ribeye for mains with chips and wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli - ribeye was beautiful as were chips but most of potatoes were still raw. When told waitress starter was disappointing and potatoes weren't cooked she did not seem too bothered. Declined the offer of dessert as meal so disappointing. Decided to have a cocktail instead, ordered 2 pina coladas - had to send them back as they were awful. Barman was pleasant enough and offered to try them again - 2nd attempt much better but did nothing to encourage me to go back.
Submitted on 11/07/2008
I've been here a few times coz its a good place to meet if you're actaully going somewhere good like the Duke of York or Whites. There's nothing really wrong with the place except that it has no soul and looks a bit like a school dinner room. Its a good place to go if you're a wearing a ben sherman shirt and want to pretend you are somebody. The only problem is that everyone in there is pretending to be somebody. So you get two guys who both left school at 16 and work as civil servants telling each other they're minted. At least their girlfriends can discuss the latest fake tan. Just wear your comfy shoes and head to the Tavern.
Submitted by AJ on 08/01/2008
Visited this place during a "crawl" after a works doo the other week. It was WAAAY too busy! You could hardly get around in the place nevermind the chance of a seat! There were people 4 and 5 think ALL along the bar and getting served was a TOTAL headache... Saying that, the toilets wernt bad considering the time of night and the volume of people in there. Drinks were on the expensive side too.
Plenty of nice looking women in there, but also a few hundred blokes too. So if your on the pull... Avoid (unless your a bird/of the homosexual persuasion)
Submitted by Tomski on 21/12/2007
Met friends here recently for a saturday outing,and I was really pleased with the food and the service. We all had mains and desserts and quite a few drinks and it was £25 each. There was a nice relaxed saturday crowd, with no roughs or poseurs and there is plenty of room to move around. Great for a larger group of people.
Submitted by Annie Bounce on 26/11/2007
Was in the Northern Whig yesterday with a friend for a late lunch. Went in at 4pm and were the only people in the restaurant. I ordered a coke and a tap water and it took 10-15minutes to arrive....Ordered a burger and Carbonara and it took 35-40mins to come. The Carbonara was very bland and the burger nothing special..very disappointed. Have eaten there 4 times, and everytime unimpressed...will DEFINITELY not be back for a fifth time.
Submitted on 15/08/2006
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