Things to do in Belfast, Northern Ireland: The Best Shopping

March 5, 2022 Esmeralda Fenner

With a population of almost 300,000 in the city proper, Belfast has grown into a cosmopolitan destination and become a popular weekend break spot. With feelings of optimism and life pulsing through the city, Belfast makes for an energizing getaway. It's never been easier to tour the city, thanks to a number of intriguing bus, taxi, boat and pedestrian options. Don't miss the Ulster Folk Museum or the Belfast Cathedral, and make sure to experience some of the award-winning restaurants, bars, clubs, galleries and theaters.
Restaurants in Belfast

1. Open Window Productions

Unit 25 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15 2GG Northern Ireland +44 28 9032 9669
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5.0 based on 2 reviews

Open Window Productions

84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast BT1 2LU Northern Ireland +44 28 9033 0920 [email protected] http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/
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5.0 based on 12 reviews

Golden Thread Gallery

Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) is a medium-scale, publicly funded, contemporary art gallery based in Belfast that is recognised as having charitable status. It provides a welcoming space for the public to engage with contemporary visual art, and has grown steadily since it was founded in 1998. GTG is recognised for its engagement with recent histories and re-imagined futures: the majority of its programme is engaged with offering the public a contextual experience of the visual art of our time. GTG is a member of the Plus Tate network, a lead partner in the Draw-Down-the Walls collaboration and is accredited by Investors in People. Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) plays an important role in the provision of contemporary visual art in Belfast and Northern Ireland: Creating a context, challenging perceptions, promoting creativity, delivering contemporary visual art for all Our purpose in doing this is to: Offer the public a contextual experience of visual art of our time Present quality and innovative artistic programs that capture the diversity of contemporary arts practice and which engage, educate, challenge and inspire. Develop, support and promote the work of contemporary Northern Irish artists and contemporary visual arts practice. Build and engage the widest possible audience for contemporary arts, extending the reach of the arts, and nurturing a deep understanding and enjoyment of current visual arts practice within the broader community The Golden Thread Gallery delivers its vision across a portfolio of three interconnected activities: Audience, Participation, and Support and Profiling. GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND AND BELFAST CITY COUNCIL. THE GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY LTD IS A RECOGNISED AS A CHARITY BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND - CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: NIC101097 AND IS ACCEPTED AS HAVING CHARITABLE STATUS BY THE INLAND REVENUE UNDER REFERENCE XR 54731.

3. Catalyst Arts

5 Exchange Place, Belfast BT1 2NA Northern Ireland +44 28 9031 3303 [email protected] http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/
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4.5 based on 4 reviews

Catalyst Arts

Catalyst Arts is an artist led organisation and seeks to adopt a poly-vocal strategy towards the promotion of contemporary art practices by large selection of artists and projects from the widest possible range of disciplines.Catalyst Arts is always a gallery, but has also been a 24 hour cinema, a recording studio, a publishing house, a skip, a radio station, a jumble sale, a wrestling ring, a sauna, a distillery, an agnostic chapel, a banquet hall, a darts team, a leisure centre and a night club.

4. St. George's Market

May Street, Belfast BT1 1NN Northern Ireland +44 28 9024 6609 http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/tourism-venues/stgeorgesmarket/stgeorgesmarket-about.aspx
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4.5 based on 1,625 reviews

St. George's Market

Reviewed By I4548VVsusanb - Dingwall, United Kingdom

Amazing place brilliant breakfast then a wonder round the stalls, everything from fresh seafood to arts and crafts

5. Spires Mall and Conference Centre

Wellington Street, Belfast BT1 6DW Northern Ireland +44 28 9032 2284 http://www.spiresbelfast.co.uk/
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3.5 based on 20 reviews

Spires Mall and Conference Centre

13 Winetavern Street, Belfast BT1 1JQ Northern Ireland +44 7901 814848 [email protected]

Belfast's newest and possibly smallest gallery. Exhibiting a permanent, but ever changing, selection of the Artists work. Paintings of Belfast, in Belfast, by a Belfast artist. The Gallery is situated above the famous Good Vibes Records in Winetavern Street, behind CastleCourt, beside Smithfield Market. Open business hours, Mon - Sat.

7. Apache

3-5 Bradbury Place, Belfast BT7 1RQ Northern Ireland +44 28 9023 1414 https://www.apache.ie/pizza-bradbury-place
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1.5 based on 3 reviews

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