Category: Features

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It’s all in the mix…

From the bartender’s perspective, one of the most attractive aspects of working with cocktails is their versatility. The only limit on the mixologist’s creativity is

The story so far

Award-winning Kilkeel chef, Shaun Hanna, certainly hasn’t stood still since he launched his career almost 20 years ago, but these days, he’s sticking closer to

A place in the country

The owners of the Browns restaurant chain in Londonderry and Letterkenny have moved into a new phase of business development with the purchase of a

Late to the party

By any standards, thirty-six-year-old Sean Harrigan’s kitchen career has been a little unusual. The head chef and co-owner of successful Londonderry restaurant, The Sooty Olive

Jewel in the Crown

Danny Rice sees his purchase of The Old Inn at Crawfordsburn as the pinnacle of a successful career in hospitality. He’s transformed the 400-year-old venue

Lucky Jim

Jim O’Neill has been building drinks businesses in Northern Ireland for more than 55 years and he’s still at it. He’s been telling LCN the

A suite success

Veteran hotelier, Eugene McKeever crowned a successful career in hospitality recently when he collected an MBE from the Queen. Here, he reflects on a lifetime

Squaring up to change

Co-ordinated development is helping to transform opportunities for tourism and economic growth in Northern Ireland’s north-western corner…   Many of us who grew up in

No turning back

Mike Gatt, the Belfast-born GM of Maldron’s newly-rebranded hotel in the heart of Derry City, believes that the venue’s potential is firmly rooted in the

Talking up the Trade

Colin Neill feels that, economically at least, 2014 was ultimately a little disappointing, but he cautions that preoccupation with the negative aspects of the trade