Having been to Bangor Social Club a few times when I was younger I remembered it to be quite dark…read moreand dingy but recently I have I went for a 21st Birthday Party and It had seemed to have had quite a makeover. They have built decking out the front and it seems to have a bit of a Hawaiian theme, with the thatched umbrella's and wooden benches. This seating area is great, it allows smokers, not that I am one, to stand outside without feeling that they are loitering on the street. Inside the bar it really is a social club feel but this is not a negative, it is a welcoming atmosphere and the people inside are often well lubricated with the cheap drinks. The party I attended was great and the space inside war really useful as it tuned out to be a busy one. I would recommend the social club as a great function suite for any occasion, thye have space for a DJ or a band so any guests will be well entertained.

This place is just down the road from my house and my Dad has been a member for a number of years…read morewhich means I have in here lots of times to watch a match with him on, usually on a Sunday afternoon. He originally joined in order to go to the entertainment that is on on Saturday nights and he usually says the shows and musicians put on are pretty good, without being world beating. This place is definitely for the older crowd, with younger people usually going in to watch a match and load up on the cheapest pints in Bangor before heading into town on a night out. While members usually fill the place up in the evenings, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons the place is open to the public and is a friendly enough bar to go and have a pint and watch the football - whether it be on the TV or live. Certainly nothing the matter with this place, especially the prices, but it is definitely for the older punter.

My Local I'd say, fantastic place to go for a drink, it's cheap, quiet and has plenty of space. Has…read more3 levels, 1st Floor is where the Dance Hall is, usually only open on selected days of the week or for do's, 2nd Floor is where I can normally be found lol this is called the Sports Bar all drinks under £3, downstairs also may I add, pool or snooker 50p, 3 TV's for to watch the Horses, Football, Darts etc... And lastly there's the 3rd Floor but this is for members only. Typical working mans club, never any trouble, always full of of decent people. I have always had a great time here anytime I've been, friendly staff & patrons, I will probably be going here till I drop haha. Definitely worth a visit I've brought two American Tourists here and they loved it!

This is a great Harland and Wolff social club on Dundela avenue ,there is a snooker room upstairs…read moreand a dance hall downstairs and a few separate bars too, there are a mixed age range that attend the club. Sometimes the rooms are hired out for private parties and functions. There's often dances and music but also a nice quiet bar downstairs, there's a food hatch serving burgers,hotdogs and chips that are cheap which is a bonus. There are toilets downstairs and upstairs. The club has good sized bars and rooms , staff are friendly, chatty and pleasant .

Love it here, really quiet and cheap too. Great place for a Friday night out with the family where…read moreyou can just sit and talk.

This is a good Legion in East Belfast, the premises itself is quite new and the main bar has been…read morerecently refurbished to include a number of upholstered booths. You can beat the prices here however you do need to be a member, or with a member to get in. The main bar itself features a number of large TV's which show the football, pool table and dart boards. It lacks a bit of atmosphere if there isn't anything on however it's great if you just want a quiet pint. There is also a large function room with dance floor and private bar which can be hired out for birthdays etc

RAOB - The Royal Ancient Order of the Buffalos, to give it it's full name, or simply, 'The Buffs'…read moreas it is locally known, is a two storey bar and members club, located directly across the road from Carrick Castle, with excellent views over Belfast Lough. I've been in here a number of times, usually to functions in the function room upstairs, but it's not somewhere that I would ever make my local, as it is pretty much an old man's bar! They do have a pool room, just off from the downstairs bar, which is cool as I do enjoy the odd game of pool, and most of the bars in Carrick don't have a pool table, however the pool room is rather shabby. The staff are reasonably friendly, and the drink is cheap enough, so you would be hard pushed to dislike this place - it's just that if you are under the age of 50, it's not a very happening place to be.

Very friendly pub. Was here last summer on a few occasions, never met such friendly people or…read morestaff. Especially when you are from another country. They made me feel right at home. Great smoking place in the back too, wish we had those in Canada. Very clean facility..

The Dockers club is somewhere my parents used to go to and still do for occasions like weddings and…read morebirthdays. I have only been there for a school event years ago. It was a talent contest so the stage was used and required setting up. The staff were very helpful in making sure everything was set up and ready to go. Unlike a lot of pubs in Belfast, the drinks at this place were shockingly cheap. I thoroughly enjoyed this fact and got a little worse for ware. The place is very old fashioned looking and they don't appear to have any intention to change it, but I don't think they have to, or need to for that matter. This place was originally for the dockers to come into after a hard days work. Those days are over but it's still a busy place and it don't think it'll stop.

Great spot in sailor town Belfast for drinks. Can hire place out for private parties at very good…read moreprice which includes resident band. Holds a fair number of people. If food needed then has to be brought in by approved caterers. Great venue for boxing as well.

I've only been in here a few times, but once people get used to your face after 10 or 15 minutes,…read moreit's a very pleasant and quiet bar. If you didn't know it was there you'd go right past it, as it's literally a big mid-terrace house. No frills here and looks like it hasn't been done up in a while. It's a little glimpse of the past though, and I can just picture the place brimming with activity back in the 80's. It has a decent sized function room too for the occasional event or party. The place oozes character to me. It's easy to feel like you're sitting in a living room (which, at one stage, it obviously was) and that gives it a great homely feel to me.

St Malachy's Old Boy's Association is a club that's members consist of past pupils of St, Malachy's…read moregrammar school just down the road. Now usually it's just full of very old men, who appear to be the only people who use these types of club now. But upon occasion, during a international football match for example, Its ok to venture into. The décor is quite dated but well kept and everyone who drinks there is very friendly indeed. The great thing about this place is just how cheap the drinks are. Compared to the usually bars in town, this place is such good value. It is a little bit out from the city centre and the area around it can seem a little dodgy at night but you'll have a belly to full of thrifty beer to care.

The welders is exactly like the club from peter kays phoenix nights but without the entertainment…read more Its about as traditional and old fashioned as any old clubhouse gets and not being a regular there's that feeling of being watched all the time. When there's food on its good quality pub food. The decor inside is old fashioned and there's loads of old trophies in glass cabinets, one did make me laugh as it had a teddy of bully from bullseye in it. There's plenty of pictures of the shipyard and ships built in Belfast.

Located in East Belfast, the outside of the Welder's Club does not look like a restaurant or pub…read more In fact, it resembled a long-closed Blockbuster Video store; it's metallic facade as uninviting and archaic as the thought of actually travelling to a store to rent movies in 2015. Standing in the shadows of Samson and Goliath, the twin shipbuilding gantry cranes that built the Titanic, this social club gives no outward evidence of it's storied and welcoming interior. We entered and I was surprised at how busy the establishment was for a Saturday afternoon; a typical, yet very welcoming pub with plush red seating, the odd gambling machine and that one guy at every bar in Ireland that is so blitzed that one of his eyes looks consistently inwards. I was also taken aback by the amount of families with small children in the place. But tripping over pint-sized Irish children wasn't going to deter me from my mission - to eat dat gravy. Seeing as it was already 2:30pm and I hadn't eaten since my son woke me up for breakfast at 6am, I was starving. Barely looking at the menu I was sure if I just ordered Fish and Chips I would be just fine, and sure enough, I was. The order was placed with a side of house gravy, and the wheels were set in motion. Within about 15 minutes our food arrived, and perhaps it was my anxiousness to dig into the gravy, perhaps how hungry I was, but I decided to just dip a fry into that boat of goodness and go to town. Except you know how when the Terminator dies at the end of Terminator 2 by being dipped into a vat of molten lava? Yeah, that on my tongue. Oh how it burned. After the sauce had cooled down a bit, I took another bite and discovered that while it had the starchiness and beefy ruggedness needed after a long day toiling at the docks, what it lacked (in contrast to the lively establishment) was any character. Even though I would say there was about a 70% opacity on the chip, a hearty number by any means, It was an entirely forgettable gravy experience. In an establishment with such a rich history and filled with such character (and characters), it's unfortunate that the gravy was barely a step above Tesco brand granules slow cooked over the oven while Downton Abbey plays in the background. For more gravy reviews, visit https://gluttonforgravy.wordpress.com/