We want you to enjoy every aspect of your visit, please tell us if there is anything we can do for you, whatever your requirements, we will do out best to supply. We offer food all day, from light snacks to lunch, dinner, set meals, special events and Gourmet Night, the last saturday of every month.

A Self Serve Buffet providing an excellent choice of both hot and cold meals is available in the Downstairs Bar for £4.50, look forward to seeing you there. ‘The Morning Star in Pottinger’s Entry, Belfast, is a brilliant pub with a fully deserved reputation for culinary excellence.

Upstairs or downstairs the food is top quality with lively service and a great, buzzing atmosphere.

The standard menu is wideranging but the daily specials list must be consulted.’

‘Pottingers Entry - Situated in an entry between two of the city centre’s busiest thoroughfares, the Morning Star is one of Belfast’s oldest pubs The listed building it occupies has been carefully restored, retaining it’s unique architectural features.

The Morning Star boasts probably the most eclectic pub menu in Ireland. Kangaroo and crocodile steaks as well as choice cuts of emu, ostrich and bison have featured among the dishes on offer courtesy of one of the present owners Corrine
McAlister who attributes her off-beat tastebuds to the fact that she is from Down Under.

For the faint hearted, more traditional food is also available in this British Airways award winning pub.’

‘In a small pub in County Down I made the mistake of asking for opinions on the best bar in Belfast.

That this was naive, I now realise. What I was thinking of - the discussion would be heated and of course no one would agree. I narrowly averted a row by ordering another round and changing the subject. The next day the name “Morning Star” was the one that remained twinkling in my mind.

As it turns out, this is a lovely, old, traditional pub in a listed building with a history that goes back to at least 1810. During the nineteenth century it was a favourite place for a the literati and it still a splendid stop for an afterwork pint, or a refreshing pause in your travels about the city centre.’

‘The range of food by the Morning Star is almost as diverse as the customers who pack themselves around the bar. Two polite gentlemen, discussing a barmitzvah in Vancouver, toy with spiced herring, whilst regulars munching ‘the biggest steak in Belfast’ calculate their losses on the racing results broadcast on the tv over their heads. Professional types move to thee culinary edge with Chicken Piri Piri and everybody loves the home-made pies, the liver and onions and the chips.
What makes the Morning Star
particularly unusual as a city centre pub is its changing fish menu: salmon with tomato salsa, monkfish studded with garlic, a giant bowl of mussels or plainly served Cuan oysters, an enjoyably diverse choice.’