Food guide hails confidence of Market in local produce

15 February 2006

If you want to keep your finger on Northern Ireland`s `foodie’ pulse, then a simple trip down to Belfast`s historic St. George`s Market will definitely get your heart racing.

That is the verdict of the prestigious `Bridgestone Food Lovers` Guide To Northern Ireland’, which has hailed the venue`s weekly City Food and Garden Market as packed with “pleasure and delight”.

According to the latest edition of the foodie `bible’, the Saturday morning market captures “a snapshot of just how the people of Northern Ireland now consider their food culture”.

In a glowing four-page review, the Bridgestone guide extols the virtues of the market`s cheese and butchery stalls, its fish merchants and creperies, its organic farmers and, above all, its very customers. The guide also hails the market for having helped instill a pride in locally-produced food.

“There has always been great food in Northern Ireland, especially its breads and meats, its potatoes and fish. But there has never been great confidence about these foods. But, what impresses about the atmosphere in St. George`s Market is the confidence of the customers. These people know exactly what they want.

“There is a food culture going on here,” extols the guide.

“You can hear it in the conversations and you can see it in the behaviour and the body language. Simple confidence. What you are seeing, in the behaviour of customers, in the animated babble of conversation and music, in the confident gait of the stallholders is the beginning of Ulster`s Epicurean Age.”

If you want to sample the delights highlighted in the 2006 `Bridgestone Food Lover`s Guide To Northern Ireland’, the City Food and Garden Market takes place at St. George`s Market, Belfast, every Saturday, from 9am – 3.30pm.

ENDS

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