Restaurant review: ‘When a place is this popular, staff can be a little full of themselves – but this is one of the friendliest spots I’ve been to in years’

East Belfast, Saturday afternoon, and we are giddy with excitement to be sitting up at the counter of Pica, transfixed by the slushy machine churning margaritas. My daughter has been trying and failing to get a booking here for months, and we’ve only landed this prime perch thanks to someone taking pity on our pleading Instagram message.