AMAZING Mexican food. This place was super cute upstairs with great food. We had squid tacos and…read morebirth tacos. Both were amazing as well as the drinks. Great friendly service too.

I was very hopeful for the restaurant after receiving a glowing recommendation, reading about its…read morehistory, and having to reserve a table beforehand. Unfortunately, the food was very overpriced for what was delivered. The flavor was trying to be they but it ultimately came up fast short. Sadly the fast-food options for Mexican were better than this was.

Adore city centre La Taqueria, so was delighted when one opened on Ormeau Road. This is truly…read moredelectable Mexican food, and more vegan options have recently appeared, which mean greater variety for 'us lot' - hurrah! Seitan tacos with vegan cheese (so good, they are heavenly) have lately appeared as a special. In addition menu staples such as oyster mushroom, prickly pear cactus and fire-roasted pepper tacos and quesadillas, along with a wickedly delicious guacamole starter are the main vegetarian/ vegan fixtures. Cocktails are exquisite and the frozen margarita is quite possibly one of the best drinks on earth. Interior is relaxed, if a bit small/ cramped and I love the Mexican themed wall art and murals. My only criticism is that it's an inconvenience to have to go to the counter to collect and pay for your bill - especially awkward when with a group and you have to stand about trying to work out what everyone owes. As La Taqueria are a table service restaurant it would be much easier if a bill could be left to a table first to be looked at before payment. Not quite sure why they don't do this. Outside of this minor gripe, all I can say is - the food and cocktails are amazing - cheers to La Taqueria.

El Chapo, as the name suggests is a Tex-Mex restaurant. Their cocktails (especially the Classic and…read moreFrozen Margaritas) are superb, food is good with lots of vegetarian (can be veganised on request) and gluten-free options. Both the veggie soft and hard shell tacos are delicious, as is the sharing breadboard starter. Though I wasn't a fan of the veggie burrito - thought it lacked flavour. There's a fantastic outside area which is a suntrap on summer afternoons/ early evenings - lovely to relax in. Plus, El Chapo run a range of daily offers, eg Taco Tuesdays during which you can order a Taco dish and get a Frozen Margarita for only £1.00. Have enjoyed dinning here a few times and would recommend.

The tacos were not good at all: just meat and a crispy taco shell. No cheese, no lettuce, no…read moretomato, just meat. A simple glance at an El Paso taco box in Sainsbury's will tell them what goes into a taco. The soft prawn taco was supposed to have salsa on it. Nope, just some creamy sauce, no salsa. The margarita had the salt caked onto one side only. Read a book about how to salt the rim of a glass for a margarita people! Not hard to do. The inside is nice. But the food was not, esp not worth the price. I doubt we'll ever return. Sorry, we wanted to like it.

Another competitor in the Mexican fast food market in Belfast, with more or less the usual range of…read moreformats (burrito, fajita, burrito bowl, taco) and choice of beef, pork, chicken or peppers as filling. Tacos are soft by default, which I think makes good sense in terms of trying to hold them together when eating them. I'm happy enough about the food but after having to wait for weeks turning to months for this place to open, they could have given more consideration to the people-flow aspects of design and layout. If the place is busy, the queue obstructs the flow of people from counter to seating. Then anybody sitting by the window has to cut through the queue to access the waste bins. Surely there are better ways of doing this. The counter could have been operated in the opposite direction with the queue directed anticlockwise around the wall by a balustrade. Then anybody leaving the counter could access all seating areas and bins without crossing the queue or squeezing past it.

Cool burrito bar with a few good veg/vegan options including a veg bean chilli. Had the burrito…read morebowl filled with rice, veg chilli, peppers, onions, guacamole and salsa. Generous portions, really flavourful food and staff were extremely helpful advising about spice/ heat levels. Plenty of tables but with a quick flow of customers so it's relatively easy to get seated. Window-side tables are great for a spot of people watching with views onto the street outside. Would recommend and will return.

Food was great. Except I ordered and paid extra for extra sour cream and there barely was any on…read morethere. I got it as a pick up order so I didn't know until I got home. But it was still good, just not exactly what I wanted. There were some nice bench tables to sit inside so I may go back some time. They also have chalula hot sauce to use which is on of my favorites.

I won't bother going back to this Boojum location again. Absolute disappointment. I ordered a…read moreBurrito Bowl and Chips and Queso. The chips and Queso were £4.25 which is a rip off. The Queso as you can see from my attached picture was basically a table spoon full, the chips were caked in salt and stale. My burrito bowl was missing the extra Queso that I requested was put into it. Also I'm upset my bowl was a quarter empty when everyone else who had ordered had there's filled up to the top.

I WOULD AVOID AT ALL COSTS - HOSTILE ENCOUNTER…read more I struggled with writing this for a while, but thought I should just to save future patrons from what we went through. Stopped in here after seeing the wall art and we wanted to look for a place to eat. Bellied up to the bar, ordered a pint, the wife a sparkling water and started looking on Yelp! for our next food adventure. We are not there 10 minutes before we are approached by a local who is so offensive that it took every ounce of my being not to react. Instead, we finished our drinks and walked out. When I say the comment was offensive, I can't even out it on here. He was looking for a fight for sure. We never looked at him, nor conversed with anyone other than the bartender since we were only there for a quick second. We traveled from Dublin to Killarney to Sligo to Belfast over an eight day period, stopping in various pubs, establishments and restaurants, talking with all sorts of great and interesting people and this is the only negative experience we had. I see good reviews here and maybe it was just one bad guy at the same place at the same time, but I tell you what, that's enough for me to warn others of this. I would find somewhere else and not even take the chance.

Popped in to The Spaniard on St Patrick's Day and when I went to check in I realised I hadn't…read morereviewed it since 2010. That's 5 years ago, surely something has changed, and surely they've dropped their standards? I'm pleased to report that they haven't the Spaniard is still everything it was back in 2010, actually it might be getting better, if that's possible! What's new then; The Spaniard has Hop House Lager on tap (a local offering) and seems to have put started focusing on luxury spirits - one chalk board was advertising £20+ shots of rum, which are now on my 'to drink list'. If you haven't been to The Spaniard go now! One thing that has changed is the local competition. In a 100 yard radius there's 5 bars, that I can think of, but The Spaniard holds it's own. It may be small but it packs a punch. It's still the perfect place to go to block out the world, listen to some great music and sup on a pint - one word of advice is to keep an eye on time because the Spaniard has a knack making you lose track and before you know it the house lights are going up.

I was greeted upon entering the restaurant, and was given a choice of full menu inside or a limited…read morepatio menu if I was going to sit outside. It's nice to find a place that has big windows for looking out at a gorgeous day and also patio seating for those who want to feel the sunshine on their face. This place has a great vibe overall, very spacious inside with lots to look at. Menu seems to have a little something for everyone. I decided on the tempura-battered cod fish tacos and they were really good, especially the chipotle ranch sauce (or whatever creamy spicy something was on them!).

Grand! Very delicious and friendly staff. We got carb-dashian and tots. Love the Craic sauce!read more

Absolutely awful. I ordered a takeaway from them of nachos, and tacos. And when they arrive the…read morenachos are just a box of crisps with meat thrown on the top. No cheese. No salsa. No sour cream. Just a box of chips and meat. This is after waiting 90+ minutes for delivery. I called up and they said they didn't know I wanted cheese. Some people eat their nachos just meat on crisps. That would not be called nachos. That's meat... and crisps! Top this off with the last burrito I got from them with some sort of horrible 'smoky beans' inside. And I will never again order from them. 99% of the food I have bought from them has ended up in the bin.

I really dislike being a mean internet person, but I am not exaggerating when I say that Mex is the…read moreworst restaurant I have had the misfortune of handing over my money to in Belfast. I even gave it a second, optimistic try, but having just finished another offensive meal from Mex, I have nothing good to say about the experience. In short: go somewhere else. If you are a fan of burrito-bar style burritos (like me), this is not for you. If you are a fan of nourishment and happiness, regardless of how low your standards are, I daresay, also, that this is not for you. Whoever hurriedly set up Mex could have gone for doing a bit of research regarding what types of flavours Mexican food is associated with. It wouldn't have been hard; they could have just gone to the other local burrito chain and tried to copy it exactly. Instead, some of their flavours seem not only 'inauthentic' (such burrito bars are hardly 'authentic Mexican cuisine' anyway) but completely random. Beans tasting of smoky barbecue as burrito base? Seemingly sugar-infused pork? Slightly spicy thousand island dressing (which they were trying to pass off as chipotle sauce)? Mex gets it totally wrong. Not only is it weird, it's gross. The food doesn't work at all, and certain bites of the burrito I had tasted like an awful wrap of picnic-food leftovers and a mish-mash of condiments apparently blindly selected from a refrigerator and then mixed with things someone saw in a picture of a burrito once. I left the establishment feeling disappointed and mildly nauseated. My stomach wouldn't speak to me for days. A few months passed, and I was sitting at home without much food in the fridge and a hankering for tacos. It turns out that Mex is the only burrito establishment in Belfast that delivers (at the time of writing, at least), so I decided to give them another try. Alarm bells should have rung when I saw that their menu now offered the eater the misguided opportunity to get a 'burrito on chips', whatever that means. I passed it over, hoping that it meant tortilla chips, which would still be confused semantically but would at least have the possibility of tasting somewhat coherent. I ordered three tacos and decided to order 'chips with cheese' to see whether it turned out to be tortilla chips with queso (it didn't). It took over two hours for my food to arrive, and when it did, it looked almost despondent, the hard shell tacos sadly falling apart into the scattered lettuce, damp and crumbly like wet toilet tissue. I wouldn't have called the taste disgusting this time, but it didn't taste good (or even acceptable) either - just sort of thrown together and bland. The food was lukewarm in some parts, cold in others. Trying to avoid their crazy flavours, I had simply selected 'fresh tomato' and 'jalapeno' as my two salsas, which turned out in the latter case to simply be slices of jalapenos. Fine. I like jalapenos. With resignation, I ate what I could, struggling with the collapsing taco-shapes, wondering if the £10 note I had spent would have been more satisfying. Go somewhere else. Really.

Mexican rice was raw. Very hard and inedible. The food was also cold. The staff were friendly…read morethough. Don't think I'll be back

The burrito bar has been one of my favourites since it opened as it is just up the street from my…read morefamily home, the deals the have on offer are very good as well as tasty! My favourite dish is the burrito bowl I got brown rice, with onions,peppers, chicken, hot salsa, house sauce, sour cream, lettuce and cheese it was absolutely delicious! They also do lovely burritos which are equally delicious I would recommend the burrito bar to anyone looking for something delicious and fast!

Having been a few times now (mainly during the week) I've love it. The floating bar has a range of…read morebrilliant guest ales that have all been very impressive, if a little pricey. Each time we've been its been for the sharing platter which has a range of chicken wings and other goodies that have impressed each time. The service has always been fast and efficient and done with a friendly and welcoming demeanour, so all in all this has become a bit of a favourite venue

Great selection of beers (and can do flights). I tried the sour, it wasn't super sour, but it was…read moregood. Also great choices for food, lots of vegetarian and vegan options. I did the vegan platter so I could try the sweet & sour chikun, salt & pepper tofu, Buffalo cauliflower, guacamole...there even a few other things on it I can't recall now. But it was all delicious and enough for two or more people to share, I had to take a bunch with me and it was my dinner the next night as well! The vibe was great, very cozy and inviting, and the service was excellent. Definitely recommend and would go back.