Maggie May’s

The quintessential hangover cure, Maggie May’s is famous throughout Northern Ireland for delivering grease on a plate at unbeatable prices.

Food

We didn’t want to be TOO over the top, not on our first go anyway, so we balanced out the excess of the Traditional Fry Up – bacon, sausage, tomato, mushroom, soda bread, potato bread, pancake, fried egg (£3.99) with the Fried Irish Soda Bread with Sausage and Fried Egg (£2.99) . The traditional fry up, while greasy, wasn’t really that huge… and because we didn’t get the version with hot chips. The food certainly hits the spot, as well as clog your arteries. The soda bread especially, was very yummy. We washed it down with a definitely passable cappuccino too, which goes go show that if you do the simple things well, you will pack them in.

Rating - 6.5

Atmosphere

It was wonderful and buzzy, exactly how you would imagine a breakfast den should look like in days gone by. We were lucky to nab the last booth, as the place filled to bursting soon. Ture to form, there were a lot of students, (and pretenders like us).

Rating - 1.5

Service

”Love” seems to be the term used by the waiters, who all look like they have been there for 20+ years, and could very well be your trailer park mum. It’s no nonsense, speedy service here, which is just as well if they want to churn them in and out.

Rating - 3

C-factor

The food is nothing to write home about but then again,

Rating - 1

Brownie Points - 12

Info

50 Botanic Avenue
Belfast
County Antrim
BT7 1JR
Phone +44 (0) 28 9032 2662