Editor Pick
Rain City
- July 10, 2006
- Rated 2 of 5 by
morph! from Belfast, United Kingdom
Another Rankin-owned restaurant, Rain City seems best fitted for family dining. Only one or two couples also ate there the Friday night I visited, although perhaps it's different during the week.
It seems that Rain City couldn't decide which type of cuisine it should keep to, and the limited choice of main courses varied from venison burgers (my friend loved his) to tasty pasta carbonara. Starters seem much more exciting than mains, with everything from duck to crab cakes on offer. And they're big: I could hardly finish the plate of Dundrum mussels with naan bread that I actually ate as a main meal.
Rain City doesn't cater brilliantly for vegetarians. Maybe the veggie burger on offer really does differ from those you can buy anywhere else, but it's not exactly an inspired addition to the small selection for veggies to eat.
One thing all our main courses had in common was the fantastic taste of the food, which more than matched its pretty presentation.
Desserts could be skipped in favour of coffee. Though tasty they weren't exactly exciting (I had sticky toffee pudding, for example) and were rather small considering the £4.50 cost.
The atmosphere is noisy, a soft pop soundtrack vying with families for attention all night. Staff seemed rather too busy all night - our plates weren't cleared for ages, for example, and when we got coffee it was already lukewarm(although immediately swapped for something better!).
Rain City seems to be the sort of place to go with a large group of friends or family. It provides good value for fantastic food, although the ambience could be improved a bit more.
From journal Belfast: Getting Better by the Minute