Hope Street Restaurant Belfast

"Very rude waiter"
Phoned to book a pre-theatre meal on a Saturday for around 4pm lady on phoned said they were extremely busy on Saturday and I could only have our table for 1.5 hours and they needed it back, arrived and me and my friend were the only two customers in the restaurant!!!!!! Amazed at this considering we have a curfew!!!! We were met by a foreign guy who seated us and as it's a bring your own asked us did we need a glass or bottle cooler, wen we showed him what we were drinking he said use the wine glasses on the table!!!! I was drinking tins of magners with a splash of black Currant my friend blue wkd, this waiter hovered around us fixing knifes and forks and chairs moving tables tbh I thought he was trying to listen to our conversation and made me feel uncomfortable, we tired to ignore his odd behaviour and went ahead and ordered our 2 course meal starting £17.95 which is just an ok price for what you get, nothing fancy really caeser salad followed by chicken burger and sweet potato fries!!!! Well when we had finished we asked for our bill not wanting to over stay our curfew and when it arrived our corkage charge was added but it had £4.00 extra charge as well as corkage for soft drinks!!! We didn't order soft drinks we were drinking our byo so I brought this to the attention of the lovely waitress that was on her first shift ever, who went and spoke to the waiter who then came over to us and asked what's the problem I explained we didn't order soft drinks but we have been charged his reply floored me tbh he said very patronisingly now now I watched u add black current to your drink and I saw your friend with a bottle of sprite 500ml(which actually was in her bag from earlier) so I've charged you for the use of soft drinks, I was disgusted and gobsmacked at this, so the hovering was him watching our every move!!!! I do not recommend this restaurant the waiter was extremely rude to us, the food was nice enough but I will never be back, I'm an adult I'd like to be treated like one, and I paid corkage for my cider so why did I have to pay to add a splash of black currant.

Tasty well-presented dishes, friendly service. Pre-theatre menu is good value, especially since it is BYOB.

Food was fantastic and reasonably priced. There were 24 of us celebrating a birthday but enjoyment was reduced by rudeness of a member of staff. Now I know where Basil Fawlty went to after he left Fawlty Towers.

Great selection of fresh food and very friendly staff

Nice food and lovely staff

Been several times and food always great. Bring your own wine so inexpensive night out.

We've eaten here twice and enjoyed our meal.Very convenient for pre theatre meals.

Had the best meal ever here last night, crispy fishcakes and thai beef starters, beautiful, belly pork main beautiful too but the sirloin steak with pepper sauce was absolutely amazing, best steak I've ever had, cooked to perfection, would highly recommend!