Flout still an outlier in top 100 restaurants
Viral pizza shop sensation Flout has been names among Ireland’s top 100 restaurant for the second year in a row.
The east Belfast pizzeria only opens for 12 hours a week and seats just six people but sits alongside Michelin star venues including Dublin’s Chapter One and Ox in the guide.
“We’re just a tiny, tiny business that’s trying our best,” he told Sunday Life. “We’re not even a restaurant as such, so to be up there with all those other restaurants, Ox — Michelin star; Muddlers Club — Michelin star; Noble, my favourite restaurant… it’s insane.”
The former advertising exec, who started the business as his wife was wife recovering from serious illness, added: “At that stage, I just thought why have any regrets, so I’m kind of wedded to this all now.
“I was lucky in that the jobs I did before this, I enjoyed them, I never once woke up and thought I can’t do this. But doing this, it’s different. It’s super-hard, it’s seven days a week, it’s extreme, baking the sourdough takes such a long time… but I love it.”
