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Morelli’s Belmont Road

Morelli’s, one of Northern Irelands best known ice cream makers, has now opened its new store on the Belmont Road. Serving up their great range of superb ice cream, it’s bound to be a big hit with the locals, especially as we approach the summer season.

Judges voted their ice cream the best in the UK at the Champion of Champions final of The National Ice Cream Competition run by The Ice Cream Alliance – the trade body for the UK’s £1billion ice cream industry

here’s a selection of  the kind of great ice cream that Morelli’s has to offer -

Banoffee Pie… Chocolate vanilla and honeycombe ice cream, marshmallows, crunchy biscuit, chopped banana, toffee and chocolate sauce topped with fresh cream

Hot Fudge Sundae Chocolate and vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce, chocolate vermicelli and marshmallows

Banana Boat Chocolate and vanilla ice cream, a fresh banana, fresh cream and strawberry and chocolate sauce

After 8 Mint and vanilla ice cream, mint sauce, chocolate vermicelli, fresh cream and an after 8 mint

Yellow Man Honeycombe and vanilla ice cream, marshmallows, honeycombe pieces, caramel sauce and fresh cream

Strawberry Wonder Strawberry and vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries, strawberry sauce and fresh cream

Cookies and Cream Toffee and chocolate sauce, crushed “Oreos”, Chocolate, Cookie and Vanilla Ice Cream, more crushed “Oreos”, fresh cream and topped off with a whole cookie

Nuts galore Chocolate and vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, nuts and fresh cream

Knickerbocker Glory A classic favourite. Strawberry, vanilla and mint ice cream, jelly, mixed fruit, fresh kiwi, strawberry sauce and fresh cream

Monkey Business Only for kids. One or two scoops and whatever topping you choose

so why not visit and indulge in some wicked pleasures!

Morelli’s

44 Belmont Road

Belfast

Neills Hill Ballyhackamore

Fomerly Aldens, Neills Hill is the new revamped and very chic looking brasserie in Ballyhackamore. Most people who love their food will be familiar with Aldens – a name  synonymous with fine dining in Belfast.  Aldens has been long established as one of the finest restaurants in Northern Ireland, but now the owners are aiming to embrace the new wave of  reasonably priced eating establishments which have been springing up, particularly in the ‘cool’ Ballyhackamore area.

Neills Hill has only recently been launched (April) and looks set to capture the imagination of  Ballyhackamores discerning diners. An exciting, but more affordable, new menu has been created; which aims to appeal to those of us who like fine food, but at a reasonable price. With a comfortable and more informal ambience, it seems poised to attract a host of new customers, perhaps unfamiliar with Aldens previous fine dining experience.

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Neills Hill Brasserie
229 Upper Newtownards Road,
Belfast BT4 3JF
tel: (028) 9065 0079

Cafe Smart Belmont Road

A relatively recent addition to the Belmont Road eateries is the cool Cafe Smart establishment. With its attractive,  eye catching exterior, it beckons in the hungry locals.  It’s not just a coffee shop, it has plenty more to offer besides.

Choose from a delicious selection of sandwiches, paninis and home baking, all which are freshly made on site. Enjoy your carefully prepared lunch surrounded by some outstanding artwork from a number of N.Irelands most prominent artists.  There is also a great range of  select coffee from Colombia and a range of organically produced Fairtrade teas.

Some of the great artwork on display at Cafe Smart comes from the following artists.
Gretta Bowen
Marie Carroll
Chris Hill (Photography)
Gladys Maccabe
Max Maccabe
Simon Maccabe
Elizabeth Morrow
Markey Robinson
Neil Shawcross
Joop Smits
Susan Stairs
Tim Weir

Opening Hours

Monday – Saturday: 0830 – 1700

Now Open Thursday until 10pm

Sunday: Closed

Phone: 90471679

Good Fortune Ballyhackamore

Not the ‘grandest’ Restaurant in Ballyhackamore, but nevertheless, very popular, is the Good Fortune Chinese restaurant. Open now well over 10 years, its a busy little restaurant, situated in Library Court (in the same block as ballyhack Library) .  It’s a small, understated little eatery, but still draws its regular diners, particularly at weekends, when it can become very busy.

It’s not the largest inside and the tables may be a little close together for some peoples liking, but it still has a warm ambience of its own.  Serving all the ever popular chinese  dishes and making a pretty good job of it;  indeed their honey chilli chicken comes highly recommended.

Another big attraction for its customers is that it is a ‘bring your own’ restaurant. So straight away you will enjoy savings on your alcoholic drinks while there. Ballyhackamore is of course, not short of places to buy booze, with the nearest off licence only a short walk away.

The Good Fortune enjoys the ‘overspill’ from its bigger neighbour across the road -  the Mandarin city. So many people who can’t get into the Mandarin will often  just walk across to the Good Fortune.  However, its still a busy place and if you haven’t booked at the weekend, chances are you won’t get a table . Som we recommend you book in advance.

Good Fortune Ballyhackamore

028 9065 9611