{"id":2124,"date":"2015-12-01T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.licensedandcateringnews.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:03:33","slug":"thats-the-way-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lcnonline.co.uk\/thats-the-way-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s the way to do it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutchman, Joery Castel , brought his own culinary style with him when he arrived here from Holland in 2008. Now his thriving little Bangor eatery has become the first restaurant in NI to be listed in the Sunday Times\u2019 Top 100 ranking\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Since Joery Castel arrived in Ireland from his native Holland 15 years ago, he hasn\u2019t really put a foot wrong.<\/p>\n

And now The Boathouse – the eclectic little restaurant which he and his brother, Jasper, have run on the seafront in Bangor since 2008 – has been ranked at number 50 in the Sunday Times Top 100 UK Restaurants \u2013 the first time that a venue in Northern Ireland has featured on the list.<\/p>\n

For 42-year-old Joery \u2013 who also recently lifted the Best Restaurant title at the prestigious Irish Restaurant Awards \u2013 it\u2019s an affirmation of all the hard work he and Jasper and the small team at The Boathouse has put in:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really great achievement,\u201d he told LCN recently. \u201cI\u2019ve been lucky to work with some really talented chefs and I think this is a big pat on the shoulder for everyone that works with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joery first came to Ireland at the turn of the millennium to work in the kitchens at Co. Monaghan\u2019s exclusive Castle Leslie estate. His brother, Jasper was involved in restaurant management back in Holland at the time, but, increasingly disillusioned by what he saw as a lack of challenge in his work, he eventually joined Joery in Ireland in 2005.<\/p>\n

The Boathouse opened seven years ago in premises on the seafront that had once been the harbour master\u2019s office before becoming home, for many years, to Bangor\u2019s lifeboat. Before Joery and Jasper took it on, Stephen Jeffers had been running it as a restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are quite a few good restaurants about now, but when we opened, you could see where the good chefs were coming from, they were Robbie Millar chefs or Paul Rankin chefs and so on. You could tell from the food they were cooking where they had come from,\u201d recalls Joery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had been trained in a different style of food in Holland and I think that really set us aside from day one. It\u2019s evolved from a bistro-orientated style, four things on a plate, meat, potatoes, vegetables and sauce, into a more refined style and dining experience with different textures and flavours to the food. I think my own palette has opened up more as well. I can tell better which flavours work together and which don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Boathouse offers an eclectic mix of traditional European cuisine \u2013 its style was once described by one of Joery\u2019s friends as \u201cchaotic\u201d. Seafood dominates as you might expect with fresh produce pulled from the icy waters of the Atlantic, Lough Neagh or Carlingford. But meat, game and poultry are well represented too and as with most responsible restaurateurs these days, supplies are locally sourced where possible.<\/p>\n

Joery, who also works as a consultant on a number of other restaurant projects around the country, believes that the sector is developing in the right direction:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a string of better quality restaurants opening up or development themselves further and some very good chefs are emerging, such as Danni Barry [Eipic] and Eddie Atwell at Ardtara House,\u201d he adds. \u201cThese chefs have been working in England but have decided to get back to their roots here and have brought their experience and their knowledge back here with them, so the trade is profiting from that. One of my own chefs, Glenn Devine, worked at Heston Blumenthal\u2019s Dinner, so we learn from him and that\u2019s how you get better as a chef yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joery and Jasper have no immediate plans for change at The Boathouse despite its recent success:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that\u2019s likely to change now is the pressure in my head,\u201d jokes Joery. \u201cI think that people\u2019s expectations now will be a little higher than they used to be\u2026but hopefully we\u2019ll enjoy a lot of additional business as a result of our success. We have a new chef started with us, Vinny McCrory, who is just back from the US after eight years there. Vinny is very talented and you\u2019re only as good as your staff, so the priority now is to ensure that the team we have stays at the same level\u2026They are very talented and motivated and I have great faith in them. The ideas that we\u2019ve had and the input that they have given to us is what has put us onto the Sunday Times list.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joery with restaurant manager, Jonathan Quinn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Boathouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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