After over a decade of slaving away in bars, pizzerias and dingy night clubs, serving Karen’s, putting pineapple on your pizza and playing “Don’t Stop Believin’” for the eight thousandth time, you can tell our patience has worn thin. This is our time – this is The Underbelly!
You could say we’ve learned a thing or two about food, more about drink and more than we’d ever like to know about people in our time serving the general public across the world.
While your local “Chinese” takeaway, KFC (at least go to Raffo’s, FFS) and the crusty bap can serve a purpose, we all know we can do better – and many are!
It is for that reason that we somewhat warmly welcome you to our first round of yarns with the industry’s best. You’ll be introduced to Ballymena’s maddest sourdough maker, Tyrone’s top ramen Chef, and the island’s smallest distillery, strongest coffee and ‘fanciest’ cheese. You’ll hear from some revolutionaries, some traditionalists and some other mad bastards creating products that rival anywhere else in the world. Eat your heart out, France!
They all have one common focus – local.
Our Mission
What’s our mission? We really just want to get you banjaxed and see you pass out in a vat of kebab sauce. But it will be the best damn kebab you’ve ever had!
We’ll show you the path of discovery towards NI’s ‘culinary underbelly’, but how you get there is entirely up to you. We’re not yer ma (and yer da sells Avon)!
We see right through the oligarchical overlords that run the food and drink industry and it’s time for a change. We’re here to put the power back in the hands of those farming, fishing, cooking, brewing, baking, distilling, serving and cleaning after your filthy arse every day.
This is about personality. This is about uplifting Europe’s fastest emerging food and drink culture. This is about continuing to create a thriving community centred around great, local food and drink.
This is about Northern Ireland’s greatest commodity – its people. This is about us.
This is The Underbelly!!!
