Novelli Restaurants In Belfast

  Good food and great staff The Novelli bar and restaurant is located inside one of Belfast's newest hotels, the AC Hotel Belfast (Marriott's) on the harbor. Great selection of food for breakfast or lunch. The staff, especially, Malik, was warm... Read more and greeting each time I ate there. Read less

  Great Bar and Restaurant Had a lovely dinner and some beautiful cocktails here. Staff are so efficient and friendly. Food is gorgeous, Simon in the bar was a delight, and Marie in the restaurant is such a sweet girl.

  Just keeps getting better! Decided to return here for my Aunt's birthday. Safe to say it just went above and beyond the call of good service and beat the expectatations I had got from my last meal here. The... Read more service was super friendly and welcoming. I went with the Pan seared scallops that had a beautiful taste to them. My main was poached turbot that was cooked to perfection with a flavour filled aftertaste . Desert was as usual brilliant going with my all time favorite brulee. A great evening! Thanks again guys! Read less

  DINNING AT NOVELLI Restaurant. My partner Billy and I had a change of plan's. So we decided to dine at Novelli for starters we both had the Onion soup which was delicious. Both main meals a half chicken and... Read more a sugar pork were very tasty to finish off we had the tarte tatin which was to die for. As for all the staff I met they were all very pleasant and helpful. And we would recommend that you give it a go. We will return. Read less

  Great food, service a bit slow We attended before a show in the SSE arena. Our started took 45 minutes from ordering to arrive which the waitress did apologise for. The food once it arrived was excellent and tasted good. We... Read more then had a 30 minute wait for our main course. Again the chateaubriand was fantastic. We were unable to stay for dessert as by that time we had to leave to attend the show. The staff were excellent and did apologise. I don’t think we would come again before going to a show given the service time but the food was great when it did arrive. Read less

  An impromptu visit that made my weekend! My sister and I were nipping out for a coffee, but we were later than expected and began to make our way towards Belfast on an errand. We debated where to visit & I asked... Read more had she tried Novellis yet, as my all time favourite starter is hands down THE most delicious soup and I knew she’d love it. She hadn’t been so we nipped in, luckily my favourite table was available even though we hadn’t made a reservation but were arriving just before the lunchtime rush.

Andre showed us to our table and although the new menu had now been released I knew exactly what I was having, Jean Christophs French onion soup,my sister followed suit and Andre chatted to us about the menu etc and was kind enough to show me the breakfast menu which I haven’t had the pleasure of trying yet.

Billy brought us our bread and soup, chatting to us I explained how this was my all time favourite & was happy that my sister was with me to try her first Novelli experience.

We were not disappointed, the soup was amazing as usual and my sister was delighted that we had nipped in as she was equally impressed with the delicious light pastry topping, and flavourful onion soup below.

I mentioned to Billy how disappointed I’d been not being able to attend the event the previous week where we would have the chance to see JC demonstrate his skills and Billy told me that Jean Christoph was in the kitchen.

Another must on the menu is his famous tarte tatin. As it was lunchtime we really couldn’t manage a main dish but it would’ve been rude not to get my sister leave without trying the tarte tatin.

Again, pure perfection, crispy pastry with a layer of perfectly cooked apple and the caramelised sauce with a little ice cream was delicious.

As we were had just been served, Jean Christoph took the time to come out of the kitchen and came over to us for a chat. This was such a lovely surprise for us and a pleasure we thoroughly enjoyed chatting about the restaurant, learning his mother gave him her recipe for his famous French onion soup, the menu, the local produce and the fabulous service that we always receive on our visits.

I’ve found the food has been consistently of high quality using the best local produce from hannans meat to Abernethy’s butter and everything in between. The service too, always efficient, friendly and 10/10, with staff also being very knowledgeable about the dishes.

I’ve been a number of times for lunch and dinner and have never been disappointed.

Looking forward to my next visit! Read less

  Special day Read reviews about this restaurant in the media my family booked a table for my birthday. Staff on arrival very welcoming, friendly and attentive. Menu hard to choose from because it is varied took quite... Read more a while to decide but had the sea bass and creme brulee. Full marks to chefs absolutely delicious. Would definitely recommend. Restaurant overlooking the river which was very relaxing. Will be back Read less

  Brilliant Christmas lunch Decided to try novelli at the city quays on a cold winters Friday afternoon decided to try their “festive” menu, when myself and my partner arrived the restaurant was a hive of activity, busy and... Read more a lot of people enjoying themselves a really good atmosphere to walk into. We were shown to our table and ordered some drinks well not for me I had the pleasure of being the designated driver, so my partner order their signature gin and tonic when it arrived It crossed my mind to leave the car and have one myself, we ordered our starters a beetroot salmon and a goats cheese roulade really well executed dishes for mains I had the venison and my partner had the hake, the sauce on the venison with coca nibs (something I’d never heard of but was informed it was chocolate shavings) was amazing and balanced well with the venison, my partners hake came out and it looked vibrant and elegant, apparently it was too good to share so I never got to try it, so it must have been outstanding. Having heard so much about the jcn tart tarte I asked if i could have one instead of ordering a dessert of the festive menu, our kind waitress was only to happy to accommodate my request and she assured me I wouldn’t be disappointed I was informed it would take 15 minutes as it was cooked to order this wasn’t a problem we weren’t in any rush and by this stage my partner had ordered another gin , my partner ordered the bread and butter pannatonne, both desserts arrived and wow, I’m not a bread and butter fan always find it to dense but this was light and may have converted me and as for my tarte Tatin WOW I’ll be back for that alone crisp pasty and sweet caramel, can’t wait to return the food service, everything was just amazing thank you to all the team Read less

  Great dinner at the restaurant! Excellent service and food. Attentive staff made our experience even better. Marie who looked after us was superb! Chicken and sea bass we had were delicious and desserts were top notch!