Michael Deane launches new Belfast restaurant to replace Michelin-starred Eipic
Restaurateur Michael Deane has launched a new restaurant in Belfast city centre in the space formerly occupied by his Michelin-starred Eipic and Love Fish.
The new venue, Mr Deane’s Bistro Bar and Social, has been named in tribute to the chef's late father Ted.
Mr Deane announced the closure of Eipic late last year, blaming the rising cost of living as customers opted for lower-priced options for eating out.
He hopes the revamped restaurant will "excite existing loyal customers as well as attract new diners".
Price rises are nothing new in the hospitality industry, and as it looks ahead to Christmas, NI catering firm Yellow Door is puzzling over how to manage the rising cost of chocolate.
With both cost and sustainability in mind, director Jilly Dougan said the Co Armagh business is looking local.
“We’re thinking, ‘people like a chocolatey thing because it’s luxury, but it’s going to be deadly expensive, so what else can we do that’s going to be gorgeous that doesn’t have chocolate in it?’
“We’re using things made with Armagh Bramley Apples but we elevate that with a sticky toffee sauce and buttery crumble. We have great pastry chefs who are very creative, and they’re flat-out googling what’s on trend and different.”
Elsewhere, Kat DeLorean has said she is determined to recover her father’s tarnished legacy by creating the spiritual successor to his Belfast-built DMC DeLorean.
Almost 10,000 of the cars were manufactured between January 1981 and December 1982, with the stainless-steel body and gullwing doors propelled to global cult status by the Back To The Future film trilogy.
However, the company was soon declared bankrupt amid a recession and disappointing sales, with John DeLorean facing charges of cocaine trafficking.
But now his daughter's company, DeLorean Next Generation Motors, is working on a new vehicle in the traditional US home of car manufacturing, Detroit.
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Another entrepreneur with big plans is the Co Tyrone woman behind the Bellamianta and Iconic Bronze tanning brands.
Linda Stinson recorded a record-breaking year and is now eyeing the Australian and US markets with her beauty products.
The businesswoman has also been looking back at how far she has come over the past decade.
"I was basically getting the door shut in my face. Beauty editors were saying, ‘Well, why do you think your brand is going to work? The tanning world is saturated’. But there’s always room for more.”
Also in Co Tyrone, US manufacturing giant Copeland is expanding production capacity at its site with an investment of ￡19m.
The Indiana-based company is working on a 3,500 square metre expansion to include new production lines at the Cookstown premises, which produces compressors.
And finally, a florist from west Belfast has been given royal honours by the King and Queen.
Shane Connolly & Co, based in London, was granted Royal Warrants recognising its work providing goods or services to the monarchy.
Mr Connolly has enjoyed a longstanding affiliation with the Royals, having arranged the flowers for some of the most significant occasions in recent years –including the weddings of Charles and Camilla, and William and Kate.
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