Hatfield House — Restaurant in Belfast

Visited here for lunch as it's just round the corner from the office. Decent pub food menu with plenty of the usual options. Food portions are good for what you pay as well.

Beer selection is poor, no IPAs or craft beer of any sort on tap. For a pub that seems proud of it's Irish heritage they could stock something from an Irish brewery instead of the usual Diageo/Coors/Carlsberg. The Guinness was fairly bland too. I had asked the staff if they had any craft beer in the fridge and was told no, but noticed on the way out they had cans of IPA in the fridge from a fairly poor quality local brewery. Either they didn't know it was there or knew not to sell it...

Get some decent beer in lads and we'll...

We spent 10 minutes in the place. I decided to take 3 friends on their first visit to Northern Ireland, around Belfast, and the Hatfield was the first pub that we visited. After buying 4 pints of Guinness a guy came to our table and explained about it being a nationalist pub and it was in our interests to leave. That was probably the best experience of the bitter feelings expressed by certain people in Belfast that I could have wished for, so the other 3 guys realised how it was so difficult for some bitter individuals to move on. We ventured into East Belfast where we couldn't have wished to meet more welcoming people. I love Belfast, but there's still...

This used to be a great bar and I was a regular in here up until about 15 years ago.

It was always a student bar to an extent, but they have completely compitulated to the student population at the expense of the regulars.

Also, one of the best things about tha Hat was the last night offies.

I have been twice in the last few weeks for a bottle of red just after midnight, and twice I've been refused by clueless hipsters because "cops are about"!!

FYI, I can walk into any bar or restaurant in Belfast, buy a bottle of wine, and take it home.

Place is an absolute shadow...