{"id":15943,"date":"2018-03-13T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:09:52","slug":"et-voila-jean-christophe-novelli-reveals-debut-belfast-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/03\/et-voila-jean-christophe-novelli-reveals-debut-belfast-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Et Voila! Jean-Christophe Novelli Reveals D\u00e9but Belfast Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me of NI Produce Adds Local Flavour to Celebrity French Chef\u2019s Table\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/h1>\n
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: Jean-Christophe Novelli, the multi-Michelin-starred and 5-out-of-5 AA Rosette-winning chef has revealed the menu for his hotly-anticipated d\u00e9but Belfast restaurant. And in a ringing endorsement of local suppliers, Jean-Christophe, who has been dubbed the UK\u2019s \u2018Favourite French Chef\u2019, has given Northern Irish produce top billing. Pictured at Novelli at City Quays from L-R Jean-Christophe Novelli, Crawford Ewing, Company Director of Ewing\u2019s Fishmonger, Peter Hannan, founder and owner of Hannan meats and Jim Mulholland, grand chef at Novelli at City Quays.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He\u2019s been \u2018keeping mum\u2019 about it until now but Jean-Christophe Novelli, the multi-Michelin-starred and 5-out-of-5 AA Rosette-winning chef yesterday revealed the menu for his hotly-anticipated d\u00e9but Belfast restaurant.<\/p>\n

And in a ringing endorsement of local suppliers, Jean-Christophe, who has been dubbed the UK\u2019s \u2018Favourite French Chef\u2019, has given Northern Irish<\/em> produce top billing.<\/p>\n

Set on Belfast\u2019s waterfront, with stunning views accentuated by a double-height glazed fa\u00e7ade and open-air terrace, the 112-seater \u2018Novelli at City Quays\u2019 restaurant will open in April as part of the all-new AC Hotel Belfast, the \u00a325million contemporary-luxe hotel developed by Belfast Harbour in the heart of its prestigious City Quays quarter.<\/p>\n

\u2018Novelli at City Quays\u2019 will be the celebrity chef\u2019s first restaurant on the island of Ireland, representing a key milestone for him, a major coup for Belfast\u2019s hospitality offering, and a valuable boost to local suppliers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to have wonderful ingredients to produce wonderful food, and I have been thoroughly inspired and excited by the quality and variety of produce available to me here on my Belfast doorstep,\u201d said Jean-Christophe Novelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt \u2018Novelli at City Quays\u2019, our customers can look forward to the authentic Mediterranean-inspired cuisine I am best known for, including my famous Coq au Vin, French Onion Soup and Loin of Sugar Pit Pork, and all made with the best of locally sourced ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading like a veritable Who\u2019s Who of NI producers and processors, Abernethy Butter, Hannan Meats, Ewing\u2019s Seafood, Yellow Door and North Down Group are just some of the local companies hand-picked by Jean-Christophe and Jim Mulholland, his Belfast grand chef, to supply the new restaurant.\u00a0 Even the charcuterie board features homegrown chorizo and salami, produced by Limavady-based Corndale Farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has always been my passion and my mission to source whatever I can locally, and it has been an incredibly rewarding experience to introduce our amazing local produce to such a globally celebrated chef as Jean-Christophe Novelli and to see him, in turn, become a champion of it,\u201d said Jim Mulholland, grand chef of \u2018Novelli at City Quays.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The 188-room, four-star quality AC Hotel Belfast is the first AC Hotel by Marriott on the island of Ireland, and the first purpose-built AC Hotel in the UK.\u00a0 \u2018Novelli at City Quays\u2019 is the first destination restaurant in the AC Hotels by Marriott\u00ae 100+ global portfolio.\u00a0 Built to Jean-Christophe Novelli\u2019s exacting specifications, the made-to-measure kitchen features a rotisserie oven to enable him to produce his signature roasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me of NI Produce Adds Local Flavour to Celebrity French Chef\u2019s Table\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s been \u2018keeping mum\u2019 about it until now but Jean-Christophe Novelli, the multi-Michelin-starred and 5-out-of-5 AA Rosette-winning chef yesterday revealed the menu for his hotly-anticipated d\u00e9but Belfast restaurant. And in a ringing endorsement of local suppliers, Jean-Christophe, who has been … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15945,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions\/15945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}