Saturday, 22 June 2013

The Alley Cat - Church Lane - Belfast

Since I had started writing about the restaurants I tried before actually deciding to create that blog, I am going to publish all at once the reviews of the past few weeks but after that I will stick to my challenge as best as I can and post once a week.




When you step in the Alley Cat American inspired pub, you are instantly swallowed into some sort or very cool parallel world. In between the cosy fun furniture and the striking paintings on the walls you feel as if you were just propelled into an episode of the Black Sad comic book!
Famous for their wide selection of beers, I was delighted to find on the list my favourite Sierra Nevada; they also have a mouth-watering food menu with some very interesting burgers and hot dogs.


I couldn’t resist trying the Posh burger, honestly the best burger I ever had. The unique combination of the melted Brie dripping over a tender, rich and perfectly seasoned patty topped with a layer of velvety caramelised onions and fondant buttery garlic mushrooms. Crispy streaks of bacon and fresh roquette smartly giving a crunchy punch to the whole thing wrapped into an amazing brioche style bun.
As I was eating out with my partner, we picked two sides of onion rings and French fries. The well-performed French fries, thin and crispy as I love them, happily surprised me but the real delight were the onion rings, which without a doubt were homemade. All different sizes coated in a light and fluffy crispy batter, they couldn’t have been better.


Finally, we decided to share a triple chocolate and peanut butter brownie as we both have a very sweet tooth. That last one was a bit of a disappointment. The gooey brownie that I was expecting was actually rather dry and the peanut butter was very scarce. It came with a scoop of honeycomb ice cream, which was too sweet for my taste and was sprinkled with a very thin and rather uninspiring milk chocolate sauce.


That will certainly not discourage me from coming back as the rest of the dinner was absolutely gorgeous. That is yet another great recommendation for my list of best restaurants in Belfast.

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