Hastings Hotels celebrates the best of NI suppliers

Hastings Hotels has once again reaffirmed its commitment to supporting local suppliers from across Northern Ireland with the launch of the new ‘The Hastings Book of Breakfast’.

The booklet, which tells the story of how food gets to the plate, who makes it and why it tastes so delicious, showcases 18 of the group’s suppliers and is available for guests to read as they enjoy the first meal of the day in each of the six Hastings’ properties.

Over 200 guests from Northern Ireland’s tourism and hospitality industry attended a launch for the booklet hosted by by celebrity chef Paula McIntyre in the Culloden Estate & Spa.

There they enjoyed a taste of Hastings with a menu created to showcase some of the local breakfast suppliers. Dishes included Clandeboye Estate Natural Yoghurt, Poached Rhubarb, Erin Grove Preserves Lemon Curd and Just Live a Little Granola and William Grant & Company Sugar Pit Pork, Ragout of Annaghmore Mushroom & Erin Grove Preserves Tomato & Red Pepper Chutney, Gracehill Fine Foods Black Pudding, The Yellow Door Sourdough bread and air-dried North Down Group Tomato.

Guests also heard from the Executive Head Chefs of the group’s four Belfast Hotels, Damien Tumilty from the Grand Central Hotel, Kyle Greer from the Europa Hotel, Jay Eisenstadt from the Stormont Hotel and Mark Begley from the Culloden Estate & Spa, about some of the local suppliers the group work’s with, the importance of food provenance, the type of dishes this enables them to create and why they enjoy working with local produce and suppliers.

Howard Hastings, Chairman of Hastings Hotels said: “At Hastings Hotels, we are proud to be in a position to support our local suppliers, who all play a giant part in our local food and drink journey, and we are delighted to help showcase, not just their produce, but their businesses across our menus, and indeed provenance booklets just like ‘The Hastings Book of Breakfast’. In addition to this, we continue to work closely with Food NI and share a commonality of purpose through the ‘Our Food. Power of Good’ campaign which is firmly aligned with our own ethos.”