Joris Minne
Belfast Telegraph
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Joris:
Deanes at Queens review: Fish gets seal of approval from seafaring expert
When I told the adviser I was reviewing Deanes at Queens, she said: “What? Again?” → Read More
Obsession Dining review: Co Down chef has arrived to conquer Belfast with pop-up restaurants
The restaurant sector is more resilient than we thought. Judging by how difficult it is to find a table anywhere mid-week or weekend you’d think we were back in 2016. → Read More
Artis restaurant review: Fine dining is guaranteed… as is some Derry banter
Love is in the Derry air. That hunger for romance in the north west is matched by an appetite for good food so it’s a good thing Valentine’s Day falls bang in the middle of the LegenDerry Food Month. → Read More
Gnostic Bar & Kitchen review: A lunchtime oasis in the desert for Clarendon and City Quays workers
It’s been a long time since any ship moored up at Belfast’s Clarendon or City Quays. You’ll still find the original mooring bollards along these ancient waterfronts but the sound of cursing stevedores and dockers has been replaced by the clickety-click of computer keyboards, whirring air-conditioning units and is it lunch time yet? → Read More
Dawsons Restaurant review: Castledawson delights put on by Great British Menu chef Stephen Hope
Something profoundly artistic lies in the heart of chef Stephen Hope. His is a world of Great British Menu creativity where imagination is the key ingredient. Everyone who appears on Great British Menu can cook, but can they match Chris Fearon’s famous Indian takeaway served in bags all those years ago? Or Michael O’Hare’s completely black fish and chips (loads of squid ink and blowtorching). Or… → Read More
NI chef Joery Castell: All the world’s a stage for the chef who put the pop into pop up
For a brief period in the early 21st century, top chefs were like rock stars, their extreme lifestyles a blur of sex, drugs and heavy metal, their creativity reliant on brief moments of lucidity and their brittle egos liable to crumble at the first sign of criticism. → Read More
Bites of India Botanic review: Salim’s delicious flavours will have you hooked
He won Irish Curry Awards recognition in his first year of opening the Bites of India bistro at the bottom of Belfast’s Ravenhill Road. Now chef patron Salim Pathan is hitting the big time with a big presence on Botanic Avenue where the Nepalese, Katmandu, once stood. → Read More
Chapter One restaurant review: Iconic Dublin eatery continues to surprise and delight
Scenes of great and abundant feasts where all your greedy fantasies are indulged rarely transfer to the real world. I’m thinking of the vast campfire barbecues at the end of every Asterix adventure where Obelix gets to eat a whole golden roast boar, or the dinner table in La Grande Bouffe where every possible luxury food is spread across a creaking table as the four protagonists eat themselves… → Read More
Bank Square Brasserie review: You can Bank on a great meal at this French-influenced Belfast eatery
If the resilience of the restaurant sector was measured by new openings, then you might think there wasn’t much life left in it. But that would be overlooking the longevity of most restaurants, many of which will have changed hands, names and nature over the years but are still in business. → Read More
Joris Minne: An Olde but a goodie: dining in Donegal has just gone up a level
The food culture of Ireland took its time to reach the entire country, but it’s hard to find a county nowadays without at least one quality restaurant. Until recently Donegal was the final frontier among culinary backwaters. But now it’s got restaurants like the revamped Rathmullan House, Harvey’s Point, Fisk, and, most strikingly, the Olde Glen Bar. → Read More
La Bottega restaurant review: Lifting the food scene on Belfast’s Lisburn Road
The Lisburn Road in Belfast, formerly the boulevard of dreams for culchies and out-of-towners, the pride of BT9-ers and a haven for off-duty property developers and estate agents, has been losing the battle for hearts and minds lately. → Read More
10 of the best Belfast restaurants to have on your list
Because it’s our special Belfast in Focus edition, we take a peak behind the city’s frontline stars at 10 other new or overlooked restaurants which may have slipped your notice. Until now... → Read More
Digby's Restaurant Review: Good food and hospitality at this country pub
In times of collective strife, fear of the future and general anxiety, there are few places which can steady the nerves quite as effectively as Digby’s Bar & Restaurant in the village of Killylea near Armagh. → Read More
Joris Minne: Bullitt’s restaurant hits the target with dining experience
There are few things more heart-warming and life-affirming than a resurrection. → Read More
Joris Minne: The Pocket Flat Iron packs a punch with its culinary delights
Until very recently, the only restaurant queue in Northern Ireland was the one snaking from the front door of the Ramore in Portrush all the way round the Main Street into Kerr Street. It started forming in the late afternoon at weekends before the restaurant had even opened its doors. → Read More
The Holestone Ballymoney restaurant review: Top spot to eat in bustling Co Antrim town
You can’t keep a good man or woman down. After two years of hospitality hell, restaurateurs have been re-emerging, blinking into the bright sunlight and looking into empty kitchens and dining rooms. → Read More
Waterman House can become one of Belfast’s great restaurants
Serial ideas man Niall McKenna and his partner Joanne were busy during the lockdowns. Invisible to passersby in Hill Street, work had begun on Hadskis’ replacement: a vast former warehouse and offices transformed into a complex which now includes a cookery school, restaurant, dining rooms and event spaces. → Read More
Stixs & Stones’ perfections ensures any foodie should have a butcher’s
Having prejudices is not a good thing. Prejudging anything is daft. But it’s human and I am as prejudiced as any doorman on a Friday night in Belfast. → Read More
Hillyard House Hotel review: Restaurant runs like clockwork and no hint of carvery in sight
Hotel restaurants used to be the only eateries open on a Sunday in Ireland. Gargantuan and indistinguishable carveries like the mountain ranges in a museum’s model display of historic battles — marble-hard, snow-white bricks of ice cream still linger in childhood memory like an inescapable malevolence, a terror which has left a deep and lifelong prejudice. → Read More
Where to eat like a queen at Royal Hillsborough
Royal Hillsborough is the north’s jubilee capital and many will be getting as close and personal as they can to royalty with a visit to Hillsborough Castle. → Read More