Butterfly Cafe — Restaurant in Belfast

This cafe looked charming at first but had signs of a busy Sunday morning as several tables were not cleared. We ordered breakfast - I asked for scrambled eggs on toast and coffee. My food tasted mouldy. The owner was rude and stressed and refused to accept that there could be anything wrong with the food. He replaced my toast but gave me back the same now cold eggs, but even the eggs tasted of mould. My conclusion was that the mouldiness was either on the plate or the cutlery. The kitchen looked clean on a surface level but it was small and crammed and I didn’t see how it could have been hygienic enough for a cafe. The owner had not cleared away any other tables in the time we were there so it started to look bad. I gave back my food and said I didn’t want any breakfast. My friend finished her food (no toast or eggs) which looked okay. Then the owner tried to charge me for the food which I had returned and was shouting at my friend and asking sarcastically if the coffee was also mouldy. Considering he was so rude I was remarkably polite. Actually I was fuming and couldn’t trust myself to speak to him so my friend handled the bill. There are two more cafes further up towards the Botanic Gardens and a pop up cafe in the grounds which looked much better. I wouldn’t go back to this cafe again. And the owner’s response should tell you why. I was quite happy to pay for the food but I didn’t eat any! I paid for my...

There's something strange going on here. I would give zero stars if I could. We waited about five minutes for anyone to appear at the counter and were about to leave when someone came to take our order. When the food eventually came the portions were laughably tiny, the chicken tikka wrap was a snack, not a meal. The only "flavour" was hot chilli (it burned the mouth off me). The tea tasted like swill, obviously these were the absolute cheapest teabags you could buy in the supermarket. Undrinkable. The "flat white" was just a big mug of milky coffee. Music was also too loud. I could have overlooked this if the food was good, but it was awful. After paying £20, we both left still hungry. And angry. Would advise everyone to stay far away from this place. You'd get a better lunch with a Tesco meal deal, for less than half the price.

Edit: The owner has replied to accuse us of lying because we ate the horrible tiny wraps. Yes, we did, because we were hungry. And then we left, still hungry. I drank less than half of my tea before I couldn't stomach any more. He's also arguing that these prices are standard. Nope, you pay the same price elsewhere for much better food, better portions, and tea that usually doesn't taste like boiled...

Ordered a "Large Fry" which, when in Belfast, you would imagine came with a number of staples, including potato bread, soda bread, possibly hash browns. Despite 2 of these 3 items appearing on the menu, not one was on my plate. What I actually got were 2 rounds of dry toast, cut into triangles - something im surprised the otherwise v.rude owner managed to bother himself doing - and a single square of butter, which I'd to ask for more of (I got ONE more additional one!).

The fry then consisted of said dry toast, two completely inedible pork sausages (inedible as I believe they were well past their sell by date they tasted so off), the saltiest bacon I've ever eaten, and cold beans. That was it. The Butterfly's idea of an Ulster Fry. I don't imagine that even in timbuktu you could get such a departure from what I'd understand is any sort of fry, Ulster or otherwise.

In all seriousness tho, the sausages were most definitely of and I'd have been of serious risk of food poisoned had I consumed both of them.

Absolutely avoid The Butterfly if u want anything even approximating a fry as you know it, AND if you want to avoid a bout of serious poisoning. I'm in a good mind to report the place to...