Cafe 31 is tucked away in North Street, Cathedral Quarter, Belfast. It's both a cafe and gallery space with the cafe placed at ground floor level and Fenderesky gallery upstairs.
It's uber cool with pure white walls, wooden beams, seriously great artwork adorning the walls and best of all serves delectable food and coffee.
The menu is small but perfectly formed consisting of soups, sandwiches, croissants, danishes, cakes, teas and coffees. It's economically priced as well. So far I've visited twice. Once to view the beautiful art exhibitions by artists Claire Carpenter, Bill Saunders and Neill Speers at which I had a great pot of loose leaf peppermint tea. Secondly just to indulge in a perfect cup of americano coffee and a feta, tomato and rocket sandwich. The food is delicious. I enjoyed it so much I sat on for a further hour drinking a latte (probably the best coffee I've ever had), charging my phone (the staff are very kind!) and surfing the free wifi.
I picked up a Cafe 31 loyalty card (buy 8 teas/coffees and get 1 free) as I'm going to start visiting this place every time I'm in Belfast city centre. I'm an art addict, so for me a combined gallery and cafe is perfection, however I imagine everybody will love this beautiful cafe. It's just such a pure, airy, bright and gorgeous space which can also be hired for events or functions.
One small point is that they really should offer dairy free alternatives such as soya milk. However, that won't put me off - Cafe 31 is my new favourite spot. read more