The Botanic Inn

Used to drink here a long time ago. Popped in for nostalgia's sake and to warm up by the fire. The recommended Belfast Endeavour was a great pint. Warm, friendly bar staff. A good experience, pit stop.

Lovely bar. Great staff. Epic for sports. If you want a traditional pub with a friendly atmosphere look no further.

This has never been a nice bar by any means but the way they have it now seems to be designed for the sole purpose of making it easy to clean up student vomit.

Nice sound system and the lightening and ambience.Great place for parties with family and friends.

I have always frequented the Bot when I lived in the city for the sports. Haven't been for a good while since I moved, but been going the last year or so because of Wing It beside it. Everything about the bar is great, with the exception of the staff. The bar staff are the most uncharsmic, unfriendly and all round clueless in the city. Between not wanting to know you when you stand at the bar, or too busy talking amongst themselves, take your pick. It's been a while since I've had a pint poured as poorly as I did on my last visit

Good pub for six nations, nice old pub on the front with bigger more modern outside of there. Could do with more inside seating in modern bit probably

Nice atmosphere. Lots of options of beers with OK price. Good for watching sporting events. Some poor quality pool tables and cues tho. Overall good experience

5 stars as a bar to have beers and watch sports. 2 more stars than average because they have TVs literally everywhere, with good definition and different sizes. The drinks and beers offer is wide, and the play area many options is huge. Also you have the option to drink outside. They don’t serve food inside, and when I went, basic food service was served in the outside area.

Staff perhaps not well trained, bar boy/man tried to charge me £5.50 for a half pint until I queried it, price was actually £2.50.... have no idea what that was about. Bar has several pool tables which is super, but for some reason in the same area pool tables are located there is an arcade punchbag challenge machine. There are numerous reasons this is not a great idea... In fairness, poor government, covid & financial crisis has crippled many bars & business's. I'd hate to see the bot go under as I've had many good night's in there. A few tweaks here & there, investment in a bar manager to ensure staff are performing adequately & a touch of good fortune are required. Definitely, that punchbag machine has no place in an alcohol fueled environment, particularly not around pool tables. I suspect financial constraints have led to one staff cutback too many. Which would explain the uncharacteristic issues in a pretty excellent bar.

My first time here and won't be back. Staff were rude, more towards the end must not like working sundays and just purely provocative. There was no need for staff behaviour and it seems they need a class in customer service. I'm genuinely shocked and appalled at how we were treated. I'm not one to complain, coming from a retail background, but honestly horrible and would never treat my own customers the same.