Press 29 Coffee House

You'll find Press 29 tucked away on Agincourt Avenue, in that lovely stretch of South Belfast where the independent cafés actually outnumber the chains. Walk in and there's an immediately welcoming atmosphere—the kind of place where regulars genuinely know the staff, and newcomers feel like they've stumbled onto something proper rather than wandered into a tourist trap. The coffee here is genuinely excellent: they clearly take their beans seriously, and the pastries are the real deal, not the mass-produced stuff. It's the sort of café where you can either camp out with a book for hours or grab something quick before heading to the City Hospital or Botanic Avenue. At these prices (and with a 4.9 rating that actually feels earned), it's become exactly what South Belfast needed.