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Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s back to work we go..
Posted: 10 January '11 by Niall and Kelly
Isn’t the first day back to work after the Christmas break just awful? Kelly and I definitely needed that extra week off too – all of that rich party food left us in need of a little de-tox, but we’ve put the salads and mineral water away and we’re ready to start talking about real..
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Christmas at Clydesdale & Morrow
Posted: 17 December '10 by Niall and Kelly
Christmas Dinner just wouldn’t be the same without a suitably impressive cheeseboard to bring proceedings to a close. Clydesdale & Morrow, a wonderful fromagerie on Belfast’s Lisburn Road, has become an annual festive pilgrimage for us – they stock a fabulous range of cheeses, chutneys and crackers and can even put together whole hampers for..
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Congratulations to Stewarts Butchers!
Posted: 17 November '10 by Niall and Kelly
Stewarts Butchers in Enniskillen has been crowned the The Butcher’s Shop of the Year 2010. Not only did they lift the Northern Ireland regional title at the ceremony in the Sheraton Hotel on London’s Park Lane, repeating their success in 2008 and 2009, but this year they went one better and won the national award,..
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The noodle has landed!
Posted: 11 November '10 by Niall and Kelly
That’s it – Belfast has officially made it! We now have our own Wagamama restaurant! The Japanese noodle bar, famous for their “Positive Eating” approach to food, opens in Belfast on Monday 15 November in Victoria Square. It’s fair to say that we love Wagamama – we visited regularly when Kelly was at uni in..
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And the award goes too…
Posted: 13 October '10 by Niall and Kelly
The British National Restaurant Awards took place last night and it was fantastic to see a local name on the top 100 restaurant list. Niall McKenna’s ‘James Street South‘ restaurant was listed as number 74th while Dublin-born Richard Corrigan’s restaurant came 72nd. One thing I found interesting about the awards was Anthony Demetre and Will..
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We have our birthday cupcake!
Posted: 20 September '10 by Niall and Kelly
Between the tasting and the voting, and buying every cupcake that was in sight, you all kept Bernadette and Martina pretty busy at St. George’s Market at the weekend! Everyone at Cupcakes & Fairycakes was equal to the task, though. After counting up all of the votes I’m happy to say that we have our..
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Happy Birthday to.. Us!
Posted: 06 September '10 by Niall and Kelly
How time flies.. Chilli and Chocolate is a whole 2 years old on September 28th! We started our little blog to keep track of all the places we’ve eaten in and all the recipes that we make at home. The fact that people liked reading about our culinary adventures was a nice bonus. Thanks to..
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Creu Celta is one of the best Spanish wines in the UK!
Posted: 03 September '10 by Niall and Kelly
We’re sure that everyone at Belfast’s Direct Wine Shipments are over the moon. Their ‘Creu Celta 2006′ wine has been awarded a “Best New Discovery” prize at this years New Wave Spanish Wine Awards 2010. The ‘Creu Celta’ label produces rich, concentrated reds with pine, chocolate, cherry, plum and currant notes from the DWS vineyard..
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