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The Cloth Ear, Belfast
Belfast
BT1 2ED
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Reviews of The Cloth Ear (Average Rating: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Cloth Ear
Another food-oriented bar with a lengthy bar counter. The space is rectangular with a raised area at the rear. For the second pub in a row, I chose the house beer Hercules The Cloth Ear IPA. Guinness & Smithwick's Red Ale were also on. The cider was Orchard Thieves.
I agree with Strongers. As a drinker, I didn't feel comfortable here. Food is the mainstay here and it felt quite posh. This may well be a good place to eat and I doubt I will return unless looking for a meal.
On 14th July 2024
- rating: 4
[User has posted 3040 recommendations about 3038 pubs]
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Strongers . left this review about The Cloth Ear
The Cloth Ear has small seating areas either side of the entrance and a bar up the left wall that faces high tables down the centre and booths under the right hand windows. At the rear is a raised seating area. A sign at the door asks for people to wait to be seated so this place is very much food led. This didn’t surprise me because it was closed before 21:30 when I walked past the previous evening. Keg is available from the bar, £3.15 for half a Guinness was top end price I paid during my stay in Belfast. There was some background music playing, but I thought this place was a bit pretentious, certainly not somewhere I’d go again just for a beer.
On 19th September 2022
- rating: 5
[User has posted 5965 recommendations about 5931 pubs]
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- Real Ale : No last updated 09 May 2014 by Dave McNally