Two chefs opened Ox on Oxford Street in 2013 and hold a Michelin star, cooking from Northern Irish and Ulster-coast produce with a precision the region had no equivalent of before them.
The kitchen
Stephen Toman and Alain Kearney opened Ox on Oxford Street in Belfast in 2013 and hold a Michelin star. The kitchen cooks from Northern Irish and Ulster-coast produce with a precision the region had no equivalent of before it. The tasting menu changes continuously with what arrives from the surrounding farms and the coast.
The approach
The wine list is independent and deep on natural and low-intervention growers. The sourcing credits the field rather than the chef: the cooking is not modest or qualified, it is simply very good, built on what the place can provide.
At a glance
The TGC view
Ox is the evening before the Mourne Textiles morning, the pairing that turns a craft visit into a coherent two-day route. TGC books the table and the sequence.
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