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The Garrick Bar is a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, situated at 29 Chichester Street in the city centre. It was established in 1870 and is one of the oldest pubs in Belfast. It serves a range of locally sourced pub food. The Front Bar in the Garrick hosts traditional music sessions, while the Back Bar hosts the Belfast Music Club and resident and guest DJs.
It is a traditional pub with a Victorian atmosphere, featuring dark wood ceilings and panelling, snug booths with buttoned leather benches, tiled floors, old brass oil lamps and a real coal fire in each room. The traditional top floor room features a quirky display of barometers and beautiful Venetian mirrors. In 2006 the bar was sold for £1.7 million to Bangor entrepreneur Bill Wolsley’s Beannchor leisure group. It was then closed for six weeks for refurbishment, taking out all the gambling machines, all the TVs and jukeboxes to create a classic pub, with music rooms.