65 Union Street
Belfast
BT1 2JG
028 9023 2474
sunflowerbelfast@gmail.com
Traditional Town Pub
Sunflower in Belfast, a great little back street corner pub on the edge of the city centre. It has a real community feel, evident from the signs on wall and with events like a film club, free Spanish lessons, life drawing, quizzes and talks. You’ll see as you approach the pub that it’s a live music venue and there’s at least one session (usually more) every day of the week. Quite a range too, including folk, jazz, Appalachian, gypsy swing, an open mic and live gigs from local and not so local acts.
There’s one cask ale handpump, sometimes with an English beer but more often from local breweries like Boundary. Keg beers feature Irish independents like Kinnegar in County Donegal and the stout is from Beamish, not Guinness. There’s a spacious yard outside with bench seating and a pizza van.
The Sunflower was one the last of the Belfast pubs to hang on to its security gate at the end of the Troubles. That, along with the ‘No Sunbathing’ sign has featured in quite a few TV documentaries.
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