Stock Kitchen & Bar

You'll find yourself on Oxford Street in the Cathedral Quarter, walking into somewhere that feels like it's got its act together — the kind of place that doesn't need to shout about itself. Stock does proper Irish food without the twee bits, and the bar programme is genuinely impressive; they're not just slinging pints, they're thinking about what goes in your glass. The room itself has that modern-but-warm thing that works in Belfast, with enough buzz that you don't feel like you're eating in a library, but it's not so rammed you can't actually talk.