As a destination Northern Ireland simply brims with gastronomic delights, great restaurants and a wide range of tasty and entertaining foodie tours.
Boasting a short and sustainable farm-to-fork supply chain, and with restaurants, pubs, hotels and more all dedicated to sourcing local, the ingredients on your plate – organic whenever possible – are always fresher, tastier and full of seasonal surprise.
Whether you visit a Belfast Michelin-starred eatery, a County Antrim ice-cream maker who believes Ireland’s dairy produce is the best in the world, or a craft brewery in the lakelands of County Fermanagh, the outstanding Northern Irish food culture and wealth of local specialities you can try shines through everywhere you go.
Among the absolute plethora of bars, farm shops, markets, festivals, restaurants, tour companies and food organisations bringing the best in sustainable local products to the plate is Taste Causeway, a collective of passionate artisans creating extraordinary food experiences all around the famous Causeway Coast and Glens of Antrim.
Head there to savour tours, gastro events and self-guided visits to the likes of the Truffle Shuffle Experience with chocolatier Geri Martin of the Chocolate Manor, who will guide you through making moulded and hand-rolled truffles. Or how about an exclusive luxury dining experience at Mussenden Temple, perched on the edge of a cliff? With the dishes organised by and seasoned with Mussenden Sea Salt, a pure natural sea salt harvested by hand from the Causeway Coast, this is where sustainability meets great taste.
You can also head to Broglasco Farm, which makes the range of Broighter Gold rapeseed oils served to HM The Queen when she came to Titanic Belfast, and distil your own gin with Giants Basalt Rock Gin located beside the world-renowned UNESCO Heritage Site of the Giant's Causeway.