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

  Good food and great service We tried out Novelli at City Quays during our stay at the AC Hotel Belfast, the service was quite good, and the food was just perfect.

  Fabulous local ingredients cooked to perfection with attentive, friendly service I was lucky enough to visit the restaurant on Friday 15th feb with my husband after winning a st valentines meal for 2.

We were shown to our favourite table with great views and... Read more served by Stefani, who was very knowledgeable about the food and drinks. I find service is always fabulous from all members of staff who are all very professional and approachable making each visit a pleasure and one of the reasons I choose to visit Novellis.

A beautiful menu it really was difficult to choose what to order,we opted for the Artichoke veloute with porcine mushrooms & as I’m a huge fan of JC’’s French onion soup I was delighted that it was on a par with it, perfectly seasoned and delicious. My husband chose the tarte fine of aubergine, tomato, courgette & celeriac with an olive & pest pistou. Presentation was beautiful and it was thoroughly enjoyed.

We chose a lovely chateaubriand served with mushrooms, vine tomatoes, twice cooked chips with peppercorn sauce for both of us. Served on a wooden board for us to share it’s hard to resist quality beef from Peter Hannan cooked to perfection it was melt in the mouth.

With not much room for dessert I chose the caramelised pear & white chocolate galette with popcorn cream, very light and beautifully presented with my husband opting for a cheeseboard, again, great cheeses served with fruit, local cheese biscuits & chutney. We had a couple of glasses of Prosecco and I thoroughly enjoyed a couple of cocktails too! Looking forward to our next visit as the ambiance, friendly staff combined with quality ingredients cooked to perfection makes each visit a pleasure Read less

  Fabulous evening Found our new date night in Belfast; great service, food and ambience. We particularly enjoyed the steak and will order the signature onion soup next time!

  A good new restaurant in Belfast We ate here with some friends and everything was good. The food was excellent, a good mix of classic french dishes and modern european dishes, nice views over the river and some great wines. Highly recommended.

  Jean-Christophe Novello Demo and Meal What a great evening with Jean-Christophe Novelli and all the fabulous staff of the AC Marriott Hotel restaurant, Novello at City Quay. Throughly entertained and looked after by Marie and Stefania during this highly enjoyable... Read more evening. We would throughly recommend this restaurant as our food was presented beautifully, tasted great and was of the highest standard. The food demonstrations during the evening by Jean-Christophe were both informative and entertaining and it was so kind and considerate of him to spend time socialising with everyone and personally sign his cook books and aprons. Thank you to all the team, a great night out.

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  Fabulous service Stayed at AC Hotel for 5 days for work and can say both Restaurant and Room Service provide excellent food. On the Tuesday after a long day at work, ate in the Restaurant and service... Read more provided by the waitress, Marie was excellent, prompt and efficient without being intrusive. Food was delicious and cooked perfectly (fish) not to mention the vegetables were also cooked perfectly. Would highly recommend both the hotel and/or the restaurant Read less

  Excellent place to eat quality food. As we were staying in the attached hotel we made full use of this restaurant from the huge choice of breakfast foods to excellent dinners. The staff were attentive and knowledgeable about the food. On... Read more our last morning we were lucky enough to meet Mr Novelli himself who came to sit beside us and was keen to hear our feedback. Read less

  Great meal and view at Novelli Called in on spec to check this new hotel's restaurant out. Fantastic setting at Lagan riverside with views of Titanic Centre and Odyssey. We were shown a great seat and staff were very attentive and... Read more professional. I ordered chicken from rotisserie and my wife chose something from the vegan menu. Yes, they have a vegan menu which is a rarity around here.

Atmosphere was very pleasant and laid back but there was plenty going on. Many restaurants these days are just too loud, cramped and busy for normal conversation, so was pleasant change not to have to shout

Meal was great and not that expensive. Will definitely return. Read less