Café Renoir
- July 30, 2007
- Rated 4 of 5 by
rufusni from Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
There are two Café Renoir - the one in the city centre on Queen Street is a popular coffee shop open during the day. The other is on Botanic Avenue and during the day is quite similar in being a coffee shop but it stays open into the evening with a dinner menu. The atmosphere in Café Renoir on Botanic is more relaxed than the one in the city centre, where it feels a little frantic but the quality of the food balances this out.
It has to be said the coffee is average but the tray bakes, desserts, and scones are simply divine - I love the chocolate brownies and the malteaser cake, and the variety of scones are great like blueberry and white chocolate which go great with a pot of tea.
The lunch menus are similar in both cafés with fantastic tasty soups, freshly made sandwiches and toasties, and all sorts of other goodies. The café in the city centre can get very busy at lunch time with a long queue waiting to be served but generally you can get a table.
The café on Botanic Avenue also stays open into the evening. I can't quite remember what's on the menu, except pizza, though I have eaten here a couple of times. But the pizza menu is quite different with very unusual combinations - and despite them sounding dubious it's worth being adventurous because the pizzas I and those I've been with have been delicious.
I'll certainly highly recommend this place for a tea and a bun or for lunch. There are lots of other dinner options elsewhere that are probably better.
From journal Belfast Blooms