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Eating Out

The Belfast Telegraph Meal Deal is back

Once again diners will get the chance to enjoy fabulous food and wine from an impressive list of participating restaurants for just £6.95, Monday to Thursday between 5.00pm and 8.00pm.

Inside Eating Out

Joris Minne: Cafe Le Petit Ormeau

Monday, 6 February 2012

If Belfast were Paris, our Champs Elysees would be Royal Avenue, the 16th Arrondissement would be that nice bit between Malone and Lisburn roads and the Jardins de Luxembourg would be the Botanic Gardens.
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Joris Minne: The 4th Wall

Monday, 30 January 2012

If at first you don’t succeed … give up. Don’t make a fool of yourself. WC Fields’ famous words have fallen on deaf ears, however, and a Belfast restaurant which had an inauspicious start, has tried and tried and finally settled down into a comfortable rhythm.
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Joris Minne: Clandeboye Lodge Hotel

Monday, 23 January 2012

The most attractive people in the world are not those who combine all the best attributes and assets of physical beauty, but rather those who bear the most middle-of-the-road, inoffensive and barely noticeable features.
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Joris Minne: Pot Belly Restaurant

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Food writers have different ways of carving out a style of critique that makes them stand out. Some let on they don’t like to leave the city because they believe nothing in the provinces can possibly match the best in a capital city.
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Joris Minne: Deanes at Queens

Monday, 9 January 2012

Deanes at Queens has come some distance since it was reviewed in these pages almost three years ago.
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Joris Minne: Il Pirata

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

East Belfast is at it again. Just when we were settling back into our comfortable prejudices about the cold, stark and joyless east, up pops restaurant tsar Sam Spain with a new and compelling idea — a diner named after a dead Italian racing cyclist, Marco Pantani, aka Il Pirata (or The Pirate — because of his fondness of ear-rings and bandanas).
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Joris Minne: Bar & Grill at James St South

Monday, 19 December 2011

Have you noticed how successful people from Northern Ireland look like famous actors and celebrities? Christine Bleakley looks like supermodel Christy Turlington, property developer Andy Creighton is a dead ringer for Joe Pesci and tourism supremo Howard Hastings must surely be tired of being mistaken for Tom Hanks.
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Joris Minne: Crown Liquor Saloon

Monday, 12 December 2011

This autumn has seen the reinvention of Belfast. The world’s media came to cover the MTV EMAs, National Geographic Traveller Magazine declared that Belfast should be on your list of ten things to see before you die and the Ulster Museum’s street art exhibition completed a year of extraordinary shows.
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2 for 1 Dining for only �19.95 valid for 6 Months - Exclusive Belfast Telegraph offer

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Belfast Telegraph readers can enjoy 2 meals for the price of 1 at over 350 restaurants across Ireland for only £19.95 for 6 months.

Passion drives technocrat making sure digital TV reaches everyone

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Denis Wolinski, of Digital UK, tells Joris Minne why it’s vital every household is kept updated on the digital TV rollout which will ultimately be good news for taxpayers
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Joris Minne: Love & Death Inc

Monday, 5 December 2011

Last year, a new restaurant-club-bar opened in Belfast that mixed fine food, bad-ass music and a fresh attitude. If the restaurant sector could be compared to the music industry, Love & Death was the Sex Pistols.
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Joris Minne: Cargoes

Monday, 28 November 2011

For years, Belfast’s critics bleated about how little there was to do in the city on a Sunday.
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Joris Minne: The Brewer's House

Monday, 21 November 2011

A warm welcome, super food and polished service make this Tyrone gastropub the perfect place to banish the winter blues.
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Joris Minne: Home

Monday, 14 November 2011

Running a restaurant is precarious. If you plotted a chart to measure performance based on volume of diners over the months and years in a selection of say 50 restaurants around the north you would soon uncover, er, no pattern whatsoever.
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Niall McKenna: An artist whose business really is cooking

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

In the midst of a biting recession, Niall McKenna, chef patron at James Street South, has opened three new operations. He tells Joris Minne why it makes sense
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Joris Minne: Galgorm Resort and Spa

Monday, 7 November 2011

Despite the shameful lack of Michelin stars in Northern Ireland the quality of our chefs continues to rise. The shame, by the way, is on Michelin for ignoring restaurants here which are as good as any British and Irish one-star winners.
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