I travelled to Belfast twice over a four-week period and was wowed by the foodie scene. I shared my Belfast exploits through my #one2Belfast hashtag on Instagram and clearly there was no shortage of fabulous restaurants, cafes and bars for me to explore. Not to diminish the other wonderful places I visited but I just have to share my experience at Ox, an amazing Michelin starred restaurant near the Belfast Waterfront.
Wow - what a wonderful location. The service is outstanding, attentive and customer oriented.
The food was a dream! Really reasoned combination of ingredients and unexpected well-fitting tastes mixed together.
I loved the presentation of the white wine.
Eating at the OX is an experience which you should enjoy with enough time and openess to different tasts.
Thank you to the whole OX team for that experience.
For those who want a short answer. I will start by saying a can’t recommend this place more and everything is fantastic.
Having been lucky enough to be able to go to a number of nice restaurants including 2 and 3 Michelin star, I will say this has to be up there with some of the best food I have ever eaten.
We had the tasting menu with fine wine parings and there was no showy, stuffy, unnecessary extras, things smoking that shouldn’t and trying to re invent the wheel.
This was quality, local ingredients cooked to perfection.
The simple scallop dish with chorizo, cheese foam and oyster leaf was one of, if not the, best scallop dish I have ever eaten.
The cote du boeuf with wild garlic capers was a real treat and was so mouth-wateringly moreish.
Whilst the food was amazing there was also the wine. This is THE best pairing I have had that I can remember. The wines were fantastic and complimented the food so well.
A small mention to the staff too. Our waiters and waitresses were so lovely and helpful, aswell as being so incredibly attentive and knowledgable about the food themselves. I think they appreciated having two chefs to talk to about the food asking all sorts of questions, which they replied with fantastic knowledge and confidence.
All in all, a fantastic trip and I couldn’t recommend it more. I really hope we are able to come back soon because it was just excellent in every way and I have told all of my friends and family about it already.
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