Hunting Lodge Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Belfast

Glad the hunting lodge restaurant was took over because the food is much better than before. I was here yesterday to celebrate my daughters 13th birthday party, 20 adults & 10 children which is a lot of pressure but the kitchen & staff coped very well. The restaurant was lovely & cool great air conditioning table set up was spot on worked well.

Starters where different level chicken tempura was amazing never had anything like it cooked to perfection with balsamic vinegar but it was the sauce that set if off some sort of salad dressing.

I don't like soup much other than Campbells tomato soup lol but the soup of the day Brocoli and onion soup was beautiful everyone loved it, super start.

I had the sirloin chargrilled steak cooked medium & even though it was cooked perfectly pink the steak was very bland I had to use salt & pepper which I don't usually do, onion rings where tasty not sickening lightly battered chips where just okay & the garlic sàutes I've had better the family and friends loved the Lasagne, Sunday roast, chicken supreme, satay chicken & smoked haddock the supreme chicken Is a big portion so if you have a big appetite I recommend.

I managed to taste a few desserts smelt great & looked the part I recommend the sticky toffee pudding & fudge cake, mint cheesecake isn't for me & unfortunately cremè brulee was dissapointing tasting for the first time I can't say much custard with a caramelised sugar top not for me bland & not very filling texture is strange.

Kids menu brilliant good options but unfortunately kids meals where poor especially the sausages real frustrating that most restaurants these days seem to be cooking eg frozen Richmond sausages in a deep fryer terrible just to save money as they don't go out of date nowhere near as quick as the fresh fridge sausages the difference is night and day they where like leather please change these?

Cocktails freezing cold real refreshing & 2 for £13 I would highly recommend I will be back for the drinks alone. Easy parking out front and easy access not so sure for a wheelchair before people ask steps out front & steps in restaurant only toilets we used where up back so I'm not sure a wheelchair would be a good idea. Main bar & ice cream parlour nextdoor same building & chinese outside premises always handy if in bar for a drink overall...

Went Easter Sunday for a dinner as we sat down we received very rushed service. We chose our starters and mains which the starter then arrived within seconds (had clearly been sat there didn’t taste too fresh). Had finished our starter for about 2 seconds and the mains arrived. No chance to digest, it was very go go go. Bill came over at £83?? 2 people on a 27.95£ set menu, doesn’t make sense. There were 8 cokes on the bill which told them we only had 2 and the lady persisted to say it was correct as that equals to a pint of coke each (the glass wasn’t even full and was flat as). We then ordered our dessert after paying the bill (making sure we payed the full amount before they escorted us to eat standing up:) ). After paying we got told we need to have it at the bar and was quickly rushed off our table. People were setting the table out for the next people as we hadn’t even got our coat on yet or had our dessert. We went to the bar there was no seats so we walking around for the bar man to say your dessert are over here. They were on the bar? He said eat up which we thought was a joke but it was serious and we were made to eat our dessert stood up with our bags and coats on. So not only we’re we rushed around forced to leave the table mid meal we also got charged £83 f2 set rushed meals at £27.95, 1 drink each, and our desserts stood up coat and bags on. Absolute disgrace. Also to add the environment was very very noisy not a nice atmosphere, would not recommend unless you enjoy...

The picture below is of a kids sausage meal, £7 for below quality food . Complaint was ignored , starters were nice but pricey. 2x 22 steaks . 1 of which was OK. The other was honestly a disgrace and should never of been plated up for anyone. I refused to pay for it and was told that Tommy wasn't there to take it off the bill so no refund was possible. and if it was refunded the waitress could be sacked. When we were leaving 1 steak was taken of the bill finally on Tommy say so No apology but told I could get a Chinese on way home when mentioned that we where having to go home to sort out dinner. I had previously been to yum at Hunting Lodge on at least 5 or 6 occasions which wife and kids and each time had spent roughly 100£, happily as always enjoy starters and mains are usually reasonable. Thee staff are usually gr8 and work hard. The Road needs a nice place to go and eat in. This could have been a 1 off but how the compliant was handled with was disrespectful and lacked class. I couldn't pay 7£ again for a kids meal knowing that the management think it's OK to serve up the likes as shown by the photo.

You have seen the photo above and you are asking me why I only posted 1 star. Strange I hope that this has cleared...