2025 was a much quieter year for me in terms of food adventures but it still brought new places and some old favourites. We’ve continued to explore London and at the beginning of the year we finally got to Oma in London just before their Michelin star was announced. We also had the chance to visit Darjeeling, Luna, Kolae, Dove, Kricket and have dim sum in Chinatown.
We’ve been back to Donegal a couple of times and managed to tick Bar Fisk off the list. As always we included a visit to Scarpellos on the way home.
We’ve tried a few new places in Belfast including Frankys Lasagneria, Margot, Pica, Seoul Food Studio and the much anticipated Capparelli’s at the Mill. We also made sure we snuck in a couple of visits to one of our favourites – Yugo.
We had a few visits to Dublin, went on a pizza trawl and had the meal of the year at Allta. We even managed 3 visits for Wine and cheese at Loose Canon = 🎉
I’ve continued to seek out bakeries wherever I go and the highlight was getting my hands on a Roundhouse Bakery Panettone just in time for Christmas.
As in other years there were the constants:
Numerous visits to Middletown coffee which always includes a hash brown stack.
Brunch at Fodder as part of our days out to the coast and forest walks.
Hot sandwiches at Lightfoot. The highlights of Lightfoot this year being the moulin rouge with cafe de Paris butter, the Po Boys, the lobster rolls and the Christmas sandwich!
Pizza at Flout
Curry at the Viceroy
Coffee at coffee rustler, Copeland distillery, babushka, Fidela and Kiosk
A Dishoom breakfast when in London
And when in York goats cheese poached eggs at Black Wheat Club and making sure we visit Skosh when we can!
All in all its been another good year. Here is to more good eating in 2026.