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Joris Minne

House of Zen

Joris Minne: House of Zen

Belfast’s reputation as a hub of quality Chinese restaurants remains intact following the opening of Eddie Fung’s House of Zen.

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Inside Joris Minne

Joris Minne: St George’s Market Bar & Grill

Monday, 14 May 2012

Belfast City Council’s successful bid to bring back life to St George’s Market is the greatest miracle to bless this earth since Lazarus picked himself up and walked home.
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Salt Bistro, House of Zen, Fourth Wall, Potted Hen — it all sounds like a merry little rhyme, and how appropriate as these are the four restaurants that now cluster around the new Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) in Belfast’s St Anne’s Square.
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Joris Minne: La Bastille

Monday, 30 April 2012

Even if La Bastille is spotlessly clean with sparkling tile floors, pretty furnishings and a neat bistro menu, there is enough loucheness about the place to give it the little kick of Parisian naughtiness we have come to expect from the land of sinful excess and shameless seduction.
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Joris Minne: Caife Feirste

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

A few years ago, the then Stormont economy minister Reg Empey paid a visit to the Cultúrlann arts centre on the Falls Road in west Belfast as a guest of Gerry Adams.
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Joris Minne: Ace

Monday, 16 April 2012

Just when you think Belfast has claimed its rightful place on the international tourism map, bits start to fall off.
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Joris Minne: The Ganges

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Finding a memorable restaurant in Northern Ireland requires the patience and perseverance of a cold-case detective. There are plenty of decent, middle-of-the-road bistros and brasseries, but when it comes to anything exceptional and worth travelling to, our portfolio is thin.
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Joris Minne: The Graduate

Monday, 2 April 2012

Once Northern Irish people get a hold of something, they’re like terriers and refuse to let go. If your great granny was an Orangewoman, chances are that you’ll want to protect your cultural identity and do the same thing.
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Joris Minne: Cabaret Supper Club

Monday, 26 March 2012

The speakeasy mood of prohibition-era Chicago has taken a foothold in Belfast with the arrival of Cabaret Supper Club, above AM:PM in Upper Arthur Street. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
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Joris Minne: Cutter's Wharf

Monday, 19 March 2012

Visiting Cutter’s Wharf after an 18-month absence is like coming out of a lengthy stretch in jail to find your wife looks fabulous and has found a new man, the children are all grown up, well-mannered, pleasant and ambitious and the dog’s run away. It’s all unrecognisable.
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Joris Minne: Safa

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

The network of restaurants and takeaways in the greater Belfast area stretches to just under 450.
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A golfing architect with the ambition and talent to get out of any bunker

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

The red tape, which Richard Hunter believes is holding back Northern Ireland, may well irritate the dynamic Ballymoney man but it won’t stop him, says Joris Minne
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Joris Minne: All Seasons

Monday, 5 March 2012

Some things never change. The traffic on the Sydenham bypass, the anxieties of June exams and the disagreement over how you make champ are all reliable features of Belfast and Northern Ireland society.
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Joris Minne: Curran’s Bar Seafood and Steakhouse

Monday, 27 February 2012

The true test of tourism maturity for any destination is a Sunday. Not just any Sunday. Try Northern Ireland on a Sunday in the middle of the winter. Even the thought of it makes you shiver.
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Joris Minne: Caf� Vaudeville

Monday, 20 February 2012

Who would have thought that a city centre, bouncer-protected palace of darkness and raucous night life would also harbour a kitchen whose staff are dedicated not to feeding deep-fried sustenance to armies of clubbers, but to providing something entirely classier?
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Joris Minne: Muriel’s

Monday, 13 February 2012

The notion that certain restaurants are more boudoir than garage, more fire station than cosmetics counter, makes sense. If restaurants can have moods, they can also have genders.
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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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