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Co. Antrim BELFAST
Aldens Restaurant
An Old Rectory
Beatrice Kennedy
Benedict's Hotel Belfast
Bourbon
Café Clementine
Café Paul Rankin
Café Renoir
Cargoes Café
Cayenne
Café Conor
The 1852 Hotel (formerly Crescent Townhouse)
Crown Liquor Saloon
Deanes
Feasts
Hastings Europa Hotel
Hastings Stormont Hotel
Hawthorne Coffee Shop & Espresso Bar
Hilton Belfast
Holiday Inn Belfast
John Hewitt Bar & Restaurant, The
Leonardo Hotel (formerly Jurys Inn Belfast)
McCausland Hotel
McHugh's Bar & Restaurant
Nick's Warehouse
Northern Whig
Olive Tree Company, The
Opium Belfast
Oxford Exchange
Rain City Café Grill
Crowne Plaza Hotel Belfast
Ravenhill House
Restaurant Michael Deane
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Sun Kee Restaurant
Ta Tu
Tedfords Restaurant
Ten Square Hotel
Bank Gallery, The @ The Edge
Water Margin,The
Wellington Park Hotel, The
Tong Dynasty
James Street South
Deanes Deli Bistro + Vin Café
Radisson Blu Hotel Belfast
AA BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Bennetts on Belmont
Roscoff Brasserie
AA BELFAST
Malmaison Hotel
Merchant Hotel, The
Swantons Gourmet Foods
Mourne Seafood Bar Belfast
Molly's Yard
Ginger Bistro
Café Altos
Malone Lodge Hotel
Harbour View Teppanyaki
Zen
Deanes at Queens
Arthus Street Cafe at Avoca Belfast
Ten Square Hotel
This luxurious boutique hotel directly overlooking the historical City Hall is Belfast’s coolest place to stay and makes an ultra romantic location for wedding venues - especially if you hire their Phantom Rolls Royce for the day (£1,000).
There are churches to choose from within a few minutes walk - St Malachy’s Catholic Church is 5 minutes away and May Street Presbyterian is just 3 minutes walk - but the hotel has a wedding licence, so the ceremony can be held here in a function room.
A comprehensive wedding planning service is offered and everything can be organised from, cake, candles and chair covers to arranging the marriage ceremony at the hotel. For beauty treatments, The Sanctuary is just five minutes from the hotel, LA Fitness is across the road (discounted to hotel guests), hairdressers will come to the hotel by arrangement, and a helicopter, chauffeur driven car or coach can be arranged for guests.
The reception is held in the hotel’s Asian themed dining room and they are very flexible about the decor, which can all be done by the hotel or the bride and groom can organise it themselves, if preferred; flowers are provided on tables but they have a great in-house florist who can provide extra floral decorations (at a charge).
Accommodation - in generous high-windowed rooms, theatrically decorated in an uncompromisingly modern style - is simple yet very luxurious; even the most dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist would be won over by the sheer style of these rooms and they have wonderful bathrooms to match, so wedding guests are sure to want to stay on a day or two.
There are no seasonal restrictions, but it’s worth noting that venue hire at TENsq is £750 for the day, but only £350 for the evening.
Wellington Park Hotel
Glenmount
If you have never sniffed Balm of Gillead, or teed off around a child-friendly garden with a miniature This two and a half acre garden in suburban Knock is as unexpected as it is full of surprises. In its golf course where the holes have names like Lake OKeechokee, then you might be entertained byNick Burrow’s whimsical one acre garden.
Laid out with grass paths falling like streams around island beds behind a 230 year old farmhouse with spectacular views across Strangford Lough, the 10year old garden is full of original ideas - in fact there is nothing quite like it.
There’s a circle of variegated hollies with an oak being trained as a parasol over the top, a carrot compound which completely defeats carrot flies, raised salad beds with crops like Tahtsol and coriander, a berry garden with Tayberries and their cousins Tammel berries, autumn strawberries in a strawberry house, golden escallonia clipped into a river, a climbing frame like a Giant’s Causeway of logs - and a great deal more besides.
Each area of the garden is hidden from sight around beds and bends, and in the top section there is a great place to sit and admire the view amid colourful plants like watsonias Geranium procurrens, Stachys macrantha, Ligularia‘The Rocket’ .
And on the way out there is a treat in the form of a small
nursery with unusual plants propagated by Nick.
Redcot
This two and a half acre garden in suburban Knock is as unexpected as it is full of surprises. In its hidden heart the woodland glade is a Robinsonian paradise where plants from all over the world romp in happy abandon under a sheltered canopy of trees.
The garden is situated on sandy soil, once part of an ice age lake bed. Little was left of the original Victorian garden surrounding the 1888 house which has been in the same family for generations together with a persistent gardening gene inherited by Mr Knox Gass and active for his 30 years of gardening there.
The front garden, screened by century old trees and planted with Loderi rhododendrons, a handsome cedar, cherries and bulbs, acts as a peaceful introduction. A pergola clad in Wisteria‘Caroline’ leads on to an enclosed garden with a circular bed filled with covetable plants like Verbena bonariensis, Geranium maderense, a banana tree and a small formal area with a chorus of paeony trees, before opening onto a spectacular double border, one side planted with handsome perennials like Helianthus ‘Limelight’ thalictrum, Potentilla‘Molten Fire’ and herbaceous clematis, the colours shading from hot to cool. The other is planted with grasses from miscanthus to chionochloa to Stipa gigantea and the structural forms of yucca .
The steep banks, with logs steps, and the floor of the dell are full of interest, with a fernery, naturalised lilies and phlox, a river of primulas, a meconopsis bed and unusual shrubs like pseudopanax, Mukdenia rossiiand tree ferns which look spectacular viewed from above a spot where a waterfall is planned.
A lawn surrounded by mixed borders and a terrace with a most tempting array of plants for sale, propagated from the garden and from exotic seeds, completes the picture.
Aldens in the City
Number 27
Fitzwilliam Hotel Belfast, The
CoCo
Barking Dog, The
Made in Belfast
Maryville House - Tea Rooms and Boutique B&B
Potted Hen Bistro, The
Restaurant Victoria - by Raymond McArdle
Arcadia Delicatessen
Chef Shop
Clydesdale & Morrow
Equinox
Ewings Fishmongers
Foodie Folk
Owen McMahon Butchers
Junes Cake Shop
McGees Butchers
Sawers Deli
SD Bell & Co Ltd
Suki Tea
Yellow Door Deli & Patisserie
James St.
Il Pirata
Belfast Zoo
Belfast Zoo is on a 55 acre site and is home to over 1,000 animals across 150 species and is the top fee-paying visitor attraction in Northern Ireland, receiving more than 300,000 visitors a year.
Queens University
Founded as Queen’s College in 1845, it became a university in its own right in 1908. Today, it is an international centre of research and education rooted at the heart of Northern Ireland. With more than 17,000 students and 3,500 staff, it is a dynamic and diverse institution, a magnet for inward investment, a patron of the arts and a global player in areas ranging from cancer studies to sustainability, and from pharmaceuticals to creative writing.
The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s, the internationally-acclaimed showcase of the performing and visual arts, is one of the bedrocks of the University’s contribution to the community.
The University is also home to the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, and to a full-time cinema, the Queen’s Film Theatre. The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry underpins Queen’s reputation as a world literary force.
Titanic Belfast
Titanic Belfast extends over nine galleries, with multiple dimensions to the exhibition, drawing together special effects, dark rides, full-scale reconstructions and innovative interactive features to explore the Titanic story in a fresh and insightful way; from her conception in Belfast in the early 1900s, through her construction and launch, to her infamous maiden voyage and catastrophic demise. The journey goes beyond the aftermath of the sinking, to the discovery of the wreck and continues into the present day with a live undersea exploration centre.
Ulster Museum
Come face to face with dinosaurs, meet an Egyptian Mummy and see modern masterpieces with a visit to the Ulster Museum. As Northern Ireland’s treasure house of the past and present, the museum is home to a rich collection of art, history and natural sciences and free to all visitors. From Ireland to the South Pacific, ancient relics to hands on activities, the museum offers something for everyone from the simply curious to the enthusiast.
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Belfast Cookery School
Coppi
Happy Angel
Home Restaurant
Salt Bistro
Shed Bistro
Malt Room Bar & Restaurant, The
NATIVE by Yellow Door in the MAC
Hadskis
Graze
Macau
Co Couture
Soul Food Cafe
Cast and Crew
Kaffe-O
Bastille, La
Muddlers Club
Deane and Decano
Punjana Tea
Havana, Bank Sq
General Merchants Café
General Merchants
Saphyre
Cookery School at James St.
Bullitt Belfast
AC Hotel by Marriott & Novelli at City Quays
Titanic Hotel Belfast
Fish City Belfast
Cyprus Avenue
Curated Kitchen & Coffee
Bia Rebel Ramen
Grand Central Hotel
Waterman House Cookery School
Stock Kitchen & Bar
Stove Bistro
Waterman Bistro
Howard Street Restaurant
Show me all Co. Antrim
Apps and Books
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Georgina Campbell's Ireland - The Best of the Best
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From Tide to Table by Georgina Campbell
Paperback edition of From Tide to Table - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Buying, Preparing & Cooking Fish and Seafood by Georgina Campbell
